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Best indicator: Anything which resembles surfing. Worst indicator: Anything more complicated.

"Better run for your life!" cried the Mad Hatter "Alright, said Alice. . ."I'm going back. . .to the other side of the mirror. . . I'm going back. . ." --Alice, Stevie Nick's (Lewis Carroll).

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So setup for me is sell rallies, or just sell but election runup generally means wide chop.

I'm assuming for now it was short covering in the Euro Friday.

Who's favored in NZ? Any take on it besides what you just said?

Let me guess. The people on the other site were mean too. So you decided to come over here. But it's the same everywhere it seems!

Strange beliefs being presented. I really wonder how some people make it through life with all the conflict running through their heads. Of course, I was a good example and still am to some extent. Really, really close to the end, but didn't know it. Anyway life's a lot better when I acknowledge...

I'm not sure I can ever really overcome my weakness, rather keep growing and learning new things. I'm probably always going to be greedy and fearful, for example.

I'm in agreeance with that. You're probably better than most at planning trades, judging from your previous training. But you measure the market somehow, just like before. So we don't necessarily call that an indicator, but it may be subconscious. I have started using the opening more often as...

I'll take a stab at it. Most people from my observation want to be right, and relevant. The market teaches me that I'm wrong a lot, and my opinions about it don't matter much. People also seek comfort, which in market terms is the nearest price level. When it gets away from that, they seek to...

I love it when one side has the other cornered. Show me that indicator, I'll buy it.

Why is it hard or why do we or don't we? It's hard for me too but I try to do what the market is telling me to do according to my goal of following the trend at hand and pulling money out. The rest is just not that important, such as my conflicting feelings. If it's telling me it's going a...

Why what?

Example?

Well said. Actually you want traders to be as unconscious as possible and still be able to push buttons. Unless of course you have a subconscious desire to give away your money, which many seem to have. I do use the moon as an indicator, especially when full, but not as much recently.

The thing most of these science guys miss is that we all trade the market that exists in our mind, not the actual market. If you stop to reflect on this, you may start to see how much your (my) own subtle beliefs about reality affect decision making. That happens on the grand scale as well. I...

Flat. That definitely wasn't any fun.

Short AUD .7997. Still short EUR.

Rough market. Which means I'm not in sync. Had several chances to take profits on the short side. Didn't take them, ended up stopping out at a loss. Got back in EUR short 1.1913. Very tight stop--if it doesn't work that's ok, but I still believe it's going below 1.1870.