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I know Jack could have done sooooo much better with these entries and exits, but, then, HE doesn't POST his trades, DOES he, hahahaha! If I were not so intent on gigging him, I wouldn't embarrass myself by posting these pitiably piteous little trades.

Equalizer. Extraordinarily witty! The inebriated mathematician's motto! My sentiments exactly. My own trading is better when I relieve the anxiety with bubbly. To all those who enjoy wasting their precious time reading this thread, I offer up these two trades. YES, they were small, but they...

The old ET had a sense of humor and a literary bent. The surest way to be run off now is to make references which suggest that trading is anything other than a "hard" science, a serious avocation for sobersided quants. Heaven forfend that one should point out trading's gutter aspects, or the...

Thank you for your kind response. I think. But what consistency did you have in mind? Of congealed oatmeal? Of slush on the street? All my trades are stuck in one place: cowardice. Only certitude of entry can overcome my paralyzing fear. Only the grateful release of exit can assuage the...

Another efficient little non-Jack trade. Captured 4 ticks of an 8 tick move. I know Jack would have done better. Trivial? Pathetic? Gutless? Wimpy? Oh, yes. But it WAS a winner. In a slooooooow morning. And I just love sitting in a position I KNOW is a winner while watching other traders getting...

A simple little bread and butter trade to whet your appetities until Jack gives us the main course. Something he doesn't tell you is that the market invariably conspires to make 100 car ES market orders wrong. So I am waiting anxiously to see one.

Oh, my! The desperation of ET for enlightenment is truly prodigious! I just now looked back at the first post in this thread, and the chart in it has been downloaded 1025 times! One begins to understand where Barnum and Mencken got their dyspeptic attitudes.

We're ALL wackos here. If you were good at ANYTHING else, why on earth would you TRADE? It's like aspiring to be an elephant circumciser ("The pay's not good, but the tips are big!").

Whimsy. I thank you kindly for your advice. But I don't want to ruin my amateur status. I only trade for the sheer visceral pleasure of it, and monetizing the sport surely would ruin the fun for me. As to black boxes, my "system" is utterly untestable. Partly because it has so many rules, and...

How ever would we be able to trade without Greenspan? Or the oil speculators? Bless 'em! A premature exit? I don't think so. Even Mama Market gets tired of a good thing and wants to roll over.

Ice. Jack has the virtue that he makes you think. Now you may or may not arrive at the same conclusions he does, but you think. But then again, Yogi Berra also makes me think. Mike.

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Jack (Grob109) claims that his posts are being edited in the strategy forum, specifically the thread "Improving Trading Skills". I should like to know if that is true, and if so, why. I mean, it's not like he's ME. Jack is one of the most interesting (note my careful choice of words) posters we...

Moderator, are you in fact editing Jack? If so, and if his posts are not obscene, I encourage you to let them stand on their own merits. If they are merely offensive, at least let us enjoy them for a while before you edit them! If they are merely stupid, then shame on you for denying us good...

OK, Syrre, I'll bite. How many NET ticks was that BEFORE and AFTER commish?

His forecasts are Delphic. If you are new to the Jack dialogues, welcome to polarization.

Lower your expectations. It's easier to make a point in NQ than it is in ES. Trade that.

And while we are playing word and mind games, let's talk about beneficial uses of the word "not". A perfectly good word to use when there is no positive way to put things. For example, "I will not believe everything Jack posts." Or "I have not seen Jack post any execution reports." Or "I have...

FT71. Don't be deceived. Jack has two styles. If you are weak, he builds you up. If you are strong, he tears you down. For whose ego benefit you can well imagine. Welcome to the B-Team. It is sooooo lonely. Mike.

Jack. Englisgh not being his native language, I think ilcaa just wanted to practice and use ICARUS in a sentence: "...lives vICARioUSly through...", hahaha! Mike.