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It was third-party verified live track record, no empty claims. Ever. :)

Ah you made me recall... I indeed made 15% in October when showed every trade publicly, including you. :D

How is that person related to me? :confused:

Ah it was a typo... alright, no problem... Personally I usually use 6-8 tick stops max in YM/NQ, but that's day trading.

No riddles, all absolutely clear. Strange that you found riddle even in such a short analysis. Are you biased? :D That's hypothetical intermediate-term trade, so 272 point stop-loss, yes. Your long has 1000 point stop-loss, correct? :)

Here's my purely technical view on intermediate-term YM (Dow)... Sell signal on the weekly below 13054 with stop-loss above 13326. Profit target if right... no idea! :D

Pity I was sleeping back then... such a great move in NQ too... :)

I am psychologist, you know, I listen to a lot of miscellaneous stuff. :D

Yea, that's what I like to do as well. Less bottom-line profits maybe, but higher probability.

ROFL :D

Yes. This is an interesting psychological issue really (on target with the topic of the thread). When we watch the market, we soon start to perceive nearly every move as potentially profitable and emotionally "own" it. As a result many people try to participate in the market action almost...

Absolutely agree. "Correct" TA is very basic really, so is the market itself. Up/down/sideways, volatility expansion/contraction. Nothing else there. :)

Problem, Surf, is that you believe exactly the opposite. That you are one of adepts who possess the "real knowledge" and everyone else is just amateur knowing nothing about trading. :)

Yes LF, you're right. But I find Surf's words deluding for people who may read him and have an impression that trading is something only few who have access to some extraordinary resources can do and that generally trading is the game of "big guys" only, totally impossible to win for retail...

No arguments left? Oh come on Surf, you're professional sales person, aren't you?

I don't tweak TA term as you just did. When I say TA i say TA (using market data to make trading decision). I use charts, volume, volume delta, DOM... everything. Also use fundamentals to certain degree, but don't include them here, cause it's not TA. So who of us is diverting the topic? :p...

No, wait. TA is not just charts. T&S, volume, DOM analysis is also technical analysis, no doubts about it. "Technical analysis is a method of evaluating securities by analyzing the statistics generated by market activity" (from Investopedia definition). What is pre-trade data besides...

Fine, thanks. If not TA though, what data can be used for conclusions?

I try to keep my mind open. I don't know if astrology is garbage or not... like many other things in life. What I know is me and other people I know use tools X and produce result Y. Trading is business, not research. We just do what works and not try to second-guess why does it work. Let...

No different than any other markets around. But everything is cyclical and Euro volatility dried up so much lately, that I switched to US stock index futures after almost 5 years with EURUSD and feel like in heaven compared... Moral of the story: any market is good if it moves. :) IMO brokers...