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The day I went up in timeframe - "swingtrading" - was the day everything became a lot easier. A lot.

Why do you think this?

Academic? This 'math' background is just another salespoint to impress new people. Why on earth would someone with a mathematical background use 'arbitrary' 5 minute time bars? Next, everyone with an academic background has probably done some courses to learn to write, eg start with a structure...

This would be the same as people needing a device to tell them whether they are driving uphill or downhill

It's funny if you look closely to the screen it's a bit weird, doesn't resemble a real quote board. Mayby I nipped from his 2 glasses whiskey, because 1 glass wasn't enough :)

"Getting rich quick" always was the Pandora box for me which opened bad behaviour, always ending in a loss eventually. Compounding slowly -though leveraged/hedged - was the only thing i got to work for me. I would guess it's a somewhat universal law that the more time is compressed to achieve...

The pythagorean theorem, i would guess after a quick glance

I now see I posted the same chart as Buy1Sell2 did friday - how original. Mods please delete my previous post

"This amazing pump continues. Just completely beyond unstoppable. 6 days and counting. Going from 342-367. And you no what the craziest part is? It won't even pullback more than $1 and then guess what happens? Instant V!" - Anonymous trader, 28 august 2000

So this is a bit theoretical and with a lot of assumptions and oversimplifications - and therefore not true, or probably baked into the market. Just some sunday-ramblings. Suppose a trader has a method - let's call it M0 - which produces 20 losing trades (-1.0%) and 2 winning trades(+20%) with...

But it would also be too easy for shorts to "draw a line" and go short, so probably first a little movement up aka "dze famous Trap"

Mae = how much price moves against you, mfe how much price moves in your favor. Suppose your entry is fixed, you can examine the distributions of both return characteristics and dissect it with other variables, eg time. This is also where the old adagium let the winners run comes from. From...

Goes a bit parabolic on the small timeframes now

Isn't directional trading - from a certain point of view - not caracterized by identifying entry 'points' (and exits) where the distribution area of MAE < distribution area of MFE?

But most newly started threads and questions on this board, never change.

I accidentally made that sound a lot more interesting - pun intended ;) - than intended. I just meant a higher than average interest in innovation and entrepreneurship. I think a significant portion of the forum visitors here share that as well, I reckon. Sometimes, introverted people are...

Introvert, but like to 'party' and engage in interesting 'things'. This was a big struggle in childhood/early twenties.

This is how SWHFT* firms secretly have been making money for years: sell the 0.0001% fall and buy the 0.00011% rise. So tiny and fast, nobody noticed. *Super Warpspeed High Frequency Trading (AI powered)

I was more talking about how fast one can liquidate a position. The faster you can, the more you can limit losses. It's imo one of the very few advantages retail/ small money has. It is very simple to 'know', but one has to build a strategy around it. What do you exactly mean by traps? What you...

One of the very few advantages a retail trader has over institutional money has is that you can exit relatively instantly. It's one of the very few things that really work, like e.g that stocks trend more then random. It took me 7 years to really understand and use the advantage. How do you...