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professors/academics/those with advanced degrees, ceteris paribus, tend to make terrible traders. a few reasons why 1) academics and professors tend to be wed to theory. so much so, in fact, that cognitive dissonance kicks in when FACT/REALITY interferes with theory. they try to fit...

it's called "shadenfreude"

there is a way to always win 100% never sell a losing position of course, you may have to hold on to your losing position FOREVER and have infinite margin to cover margin calls but you can have 100% winning trades of course, this is absurd. but it can be done.

Every 2 weeks, I take 75% of my profits for that 2 weeks out of the trading account. The other 25% I leave in as a reward for successful trading. I believe in constantly removing money from your trading account. It reinforces the concreteness of the fact that you aare trading money, not...

market profile would let you see what price is taking the most volume, where the value area is, etc.

"how can you estimate what the VWAP is going to be for the end of the day" get a crystal ball. i mean cmon! seriously

generally speaking, a common saying is that - if you can't beat the VWAP, you probably don't have much futures as (at least as an institutional ) trader iow, say that you want to accumulate ABC over the course of the next 2 weeks if you can beat the VWAP over the next two weeks with...

"the use of charts and/or chart tools in order to predict pending price action with greater than 50% accuracy" That's my definition of TA. Anyone using price charts with plain bars or any amount of price movement indicators practices TA. " um, no. charts are an ELEMENT of (most) TA...

I am a futures trader in Seattle area. PM me if u like.

among other things (like most instruments) it depends on yer timeframe, too on a 5 yr weekly chart , crude is clearly in an uptrend, and pretty much has retracedexactly at its trendline now, which offers a decent risk/reward entry for the trend-following type of trader

bingo. imo, becoming a professional involves being able to have the discipline to manage risk (iow, control your emotions), and while you do not have to be a mechanical/system trader (i am not, for instance), you HAVE to be a disciplined trader : stick to your stops, follow your rules, etc...

look, i use what works. when i intraday trade futures, which is how i make my living, it is 100% TA. because fundamentals don't mean ANYTHING on an intraday time frame trading the dow minis. otoh, some investments (and even some trades) i will use almost 100% FA. my best return ever...

look, i love your fear mongering but i have been spread trading for a while, on indexes, crude, etc. and i understand the dynamics. as i said, i can't speak to "pair trading" a la bright. i was mentioning spread trading. it is not rocket science, any more than trading itself is rocket...

"Call me stupid but I still don't get the concept of pairs trading. I read Darren Cliffords article as he described the Coke and Pepsi example. Going short PEP going long Coke. Which one was suppose to move in a profitable direction? How do you profit from this if their both going higher? Can...

compare the SPEWI to the S&P capitalization weighted index. that shows you the story. this is a value rally. traders are still in the go-go 90's tech mindset

i have not attended any. i have checked out several of their webinars. OF the webinars i watched, the gramza ones were about the worst imo. it's not that he doesn;'t know his stuff. he seems pretty knowledgeable, but he is slower than molasses in january to listen to. but there are some...

the idea that there is *one* "optimal target" for all modalities, time frames, instruments traded, methodologies, etc. is where your logical fallacy is. but again, you are either astoundingly ignorant, or a troll

im not defining them. those are the 'dictionary definitions" what i have found is that people who often don't want to be associated with a terminology, or school of thought, will want to redefine a word, so as to place themselves outside that school - this is true in politics, and it is...

"If my main purpose was to avoid being labelled a technical trader, I could just claim I use FA, since you've claimed everything else to be TA. " false. i did not claim (all NOT TA = FA) i said , USUALLY read again. there are some forms of analysis, that are neither TA nor FA...

if it's based on price (i am assuming you are referring to Quantitative Analysis), it's TA. give me an example of a QA setup that you are in doubt of whether it is TA or not TA. TA and QA are not mutually exclusive, of course.