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Maybe the lack of discipline is your mind's way of telling you that you are tired of trading and want to do something else for awhile. Maybe it is time to take a vacation or take a nap or something.

Share your feelings with us. I suspect no one here knows your real name and there is no harm done. I think it is important that you experience all your feelings. Maybe your feelings resonate within us also. The idea is that if we experience feelings in this forum (or anywhere else) then we...

I think there are lots of good ideas here at EliteTrader.com. Searching and reading EliteTrader.com for about 6 months might help a trader significantly.

I launch Internet Explorer 7 and click on tools, internet options, browsing history, settings. I change "Check for newer versions of stored pages" to "Every time I visit the webpage" and my login problem disappears. I change "Check for newer versions of stored pages" to "never" and do not...

Here are trading results for Disney symbol DIS. The rules are: 1) Buy when price increases 10 %. 2) Sell if price decreases 25 %. 3) Position size = 7 % of equity / (10 x average true range). Simulation uses 30 years of price data from 24 November 1976 to 24 November 2006. ===...

Regarding Hilton Hotels symbol HLT the system is still long and shows a profit: 15-Nov-02 OHLC:[ 12.93 12.93 12.93 12.93 ] buy 12.85 size 14372 Dollar Position Cost is 184726.20 Unrealized gain on final position: 5-Dec-06 OHLC:[ 33.86 33.86 33.86 33.86 ] SellTargetPrice 25.13 Position...

What exactly are you trading?

You flipped it for $ 1 / share? Someone might be buying the company. http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-12-06T184853Z_01_WLA6170_RTRIDST_0_GALLAHER-APPROACH-URGENT.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - British tobacco company Gallaher...

I suspect the values of the Standard and Poors 500 Index tracking stock symbol SPY correlate with the values of the Standard and Poors 500 Index futures contract. You might try to develop a longer term profitable trading method using SPY stock. I have about 13 years of daily SPY price data that...

I recall using a Zweig trading system in the Merck (MRK) example above. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76216

I examine price graphs of WFMI, OATS, NUTR and observe some similarities to the HANS price graph pattern. I wonder if someone is buying large amounts of stock in the health food industry group.

If I interpret Jesse Livermore's method correctly then the rally and increasing volume of 5 December 2006 corresponds to a buy signal given by the Livermore Market Key. It is a little hard to interpret because Jesse Livermore's method is for stocks trading in the $ 30 to $ 60 / share range...

I suspect you are correct, Jack. I remember testing two versions of the same method on Euro / US Dollar exchange rate. One version enters immediately following an opening gap, the other method enters when the price rallys a given percentage. Both methods use the same trade exit and position size...

I choose not to short term position trade stocks (trade duration about 3 days to 30 days) showing a history of large opening price gaps. I recall losing money when stopping losses on opening price gaps.

I trade longer term, usually holding positions for longer than a year. I write computer programs that test various trading methods. I analyze trading system performance at various levels of risk. I often find longer term methods show results that satisfy me. For example, longer term...

Is the odd lot restriction for market orders or with stop or limit orders?

When do you exit the trade?

The system tests well for gold futures also: Number of trades 6 Total profit $ 189583 Profit after subtracting $ 10.00 commission, slippage per transaction: $ 189463 Heat is 2.00 per cent of equity. Greatest drawdown is 0.0081 (0.81 per cent). Cumulative Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) is 6.20...

Cash, you might be on to something. I put together some code for a trading system based on gap entry. Here are the rules: 1) Buy when opening price shows X % increase from the preceding session closing price AND price is greater than the value of the Y time constant exponential moving...

Are gaps arbitrary? For example daily charts might show lots of gaps, especially opening gaps. Monthly charts might not show the gaps that are seen on a daily chart. I expect to observe more gaps if trading is not continuous. For example in the stock market I might see a gap between the...