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Bonds are the cornerstone of a portfolio. :eek:

Good spike up on US treasuries on the bad ISM contraction number. No signal yet but seems down channel and new up channel on hourly chart are overlapping. Fed certainly changed context at FOMC and bad data like ISM contraction very good for trend continuation. NFP Friday. You know what...

What of Peter Brandt whose book I read a while back. Seems like he uses classic Edwards and Magee chart formations to trade breakouts on commodities primarily. It can't be just that. He is a lifelong professional market participant. I believe he was a commercial hedger for Campbell (soup) or...

Any results from an Aquarius Age trading plan are inherently snooping, looking forward , since we haven't entered enter the age of Aquarius yet. Dude it is still the age of Pieces and at 72 years per degree of precession, it will be for your lifetime. This is similar to backtestimg entries...

Recent past, the last 11 months or so, has always had a fed member speak out shortly after FOMC or minutes when there has been any market confusion/volatility to their message. It has been clear their message has been " we want the market to continue to go up". Haven't had a fed member even...

If you traded noise only in the direction of the mean with equal profit stops and profit targets would not this be profitable IF, AND as long as market selection ( trend identification) is correct? Regardless of entry criteria.?

SHW, BLK, may be what you are referring to. SP500 and SP100 are huge bins To find those that meet your characteristics. Why screen? Look through the 100 or 500 once a week consistently and chose your stocks to trade. Group sp100/500 into its major sector components and know performance...

The fed is a well trained dog since when I don't know ....Asian contagion.? Long Term Capital? Y2k? And on and on. Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellin? 401k's are soaring.......Good boy!

So once again, I enjoyed reading the OP's 1st post and then spent the next 10 minutes reading total shit. But maybe I should thank our battled hardened shining protectors or the less fortunate huddled masses who would, unsolicited mind you, relinquish their life savings to the OP. Carry on OP...

For me....directional bias is bad. When I test a system with 10,000 trades over 10 years on 100 stocks I accept each trade that occurred years ago. I am not saying that context in a given past time period is insignificant but I do not look for CNBC or Bloomberg historical archives to "study" the...

Surf, Exercise is like trading. There is a simplicity to it that you will recognize in 5 years as you watch all those poor lost souls at you local gym contorting their arms in strange ways. Inventory your physical issues as a 40-50 year old man I am guessing. Arthritis, bad knees , hips...

Prescription Protonix for the heartburn or Prilosec over the counter. Take care.

Breifing.com Calendars Economic Full week listing .....hard to see ....in the blue banner. Some reports are "clickable" for additional information. Nice to get a timetable of reports for the day and/or week.

AAPL/SPY is my selection here for some neutrality and a guess that financials and materials are dogs forward from here relative to aapl. I would close if it works before earnings but that's just me. 422 and 418 are levels I am watching but look out below these. 440 upside easy if it works. NFP...

The greatest edges have the largest capacity restraints......from MS.......and, Dustin saying " take goog and aapl off your screen" is a good reminder to where the juice in equities is. The type of sub $10 thin stocks where you should limit your size to 5-10k. Chkitout , get a good commish...

I remember NDoji trading swing trading the likes of CLF etc,....multiple positions actually and resulting in 2-3kish p/l. This means she was probably better capitalized and well practiced than most who are starting out and had better odds of initial surviving the leveraged pressure cooker that...

Al Brooks ?

Why cant a simple formula determine context better than a human. Or, maybe a human that gets stuck..ha. Say I design bands , surrounding and slightly offest by a small factor from the highs and lows of price bars on both hourly and daily bars. Always in , I sell at a top band tag of both...

I will tak a shot here to comment on the second question. Plotting the ratio in Excel Of Oil/notes, for example only, would be dominated by the volatility of oil and the graph would look very similar to oil. Placing 2std bands around this chart and buying the ratio (oil/notes) or selling the...

Thank you.