Search results

yes, was there any event in history which occurred on the nikkei that corresponded timewise to Sept 11? I only ask because the 9/11 lows fit in nicely with the nikkei. So maybe our lows were event driven or maybe they were just sort of predetermined coincidence. You know what I mean.

So what's the problem? Oh no, "What seems to be the problem?" Better still, "So why do you think you have a problem?"

I'm glad you like it cause I sure as hell have never got it to work right for me.

so if your max size is 5 and your longest streak is 8 and your losing streak occured at the 5 contract size your losing streak would occur with 12 contracts (or $1200 with 2 pt stops) and your winning streak would occur with 30 contracts (or $3,000 with 2 pt targets) just something...

But seriously, just trade one if you have to ask. I sort of like 2 pt stops. More like 1.75 is when I give up. Sometimes 3. What kind of targets are you shooting for? You have a system? What is it? What are your exits based on if not stopped out?

10,000 x 2% equals $200 divided by 2 times 50 equals 2. So therefore you can comfortably trade 2 contracts with 2 pt stops and presumably something greater than 2 pt targets. If you have a known winning system and it is hot, add one contract after every winning trade and drop down to one...

It's worth reading. It's about market psychology. People will feed a system with a part of their savings as long as the system produces immediate paper profits. Some will withdraw the profits, but most will just play with the paper profits. At some point, a big drop wipes out all the...

I am completely qualified to help you with any discipline/emotional issues which come up from time to time while trading. What's the problem?

I don't have a lot of experience at this. I have only gone completely broke 3 times. Everytime was the same. Started with a small loss, became a big loss, became an obsession, became a depression, liquidated all winning positions to meet margin on big losing position. Coincidence? I don't...

So then I am in a drawdown, and I am trying really hard to make money, but it's not working. So then I read in the Tao that I shouldn't try. So I quit trying and immediately start making money. So I read more and it says I shouldn't care. So I quit caring and that works. So everything is...

I watch Bloomberg all the time. I use to watch CNBC but Maria kept giving me heart attacks. Now today on Bloomberg, Suzy Assad was wearing the most beautifully stunning polka dot dress. I watch Bloomberg in the middle of the night, there is a very fine lady on the Asian broadcast...

if the markets moving against you, your damn conviction wasn't really worth a whole lot was it? I suppose even if everybody else thinks it's going down and I alone think it's going up, that eventually I will be right. Here is my portfolio. It's down 50%. So therefore I am going to add to...

well seriously, I don't know what non linear analysis is. I suppose if you could use it, it would work better than linear analysis. But linear analysis works fine. Everytime I point and click, someone is bashing ma crossovers. Set you ma's up and watch what happens when they cross. Are prices...

it means the market is not efficient. It is inefficient. So therefore, it is ok to try to beat it. It all started when some professor's wife complained that his part time trading had become a gambling addiction. So he took a bunch of market statistics and compared them to a roulette wheel...

If I have misrepresented myself as someone who knows anything at all about computers I apologize. First, look on your computer and see if you see any lights. If you do, that means it's on, so that is probably not the problem. If the mkt isn't open, there will be no bid or ask for tws to key...

you're either going to worry or your not. It has nothing to do with what's going on around you. If a stressful trader quits and goes raises chickens, he will be a stressful chicken farmer.

that's the trouble with traders. They think they're losing money. They don't realize they are making money and just in a drawdown.

I can tell you this, it doesn't take much courage to trade a system with a projected max drawdown of 50%. But it takes more courage than most anybody has to keep trading that system when it is down 35%.

Yeah, let's get it straight. You read through a whole book, and maybe you get one idea that you can work into your life. Sometimes it's exactly opposite of what the author thinks. The Disciplined Trader changed my whole life. I read it after I had gone broke. That's where I first realized...

yes, I think so, there was a discussion on this site about that. I never transmit a page, but it should work. If you don't want to use hotkeys, you can set it up OCA. Then transmit your page. That's a whole nuther world man, I just trade es. That's all. You stock traders. That's for...