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Good evening, trading spectators. This week the ABC12 setup got smacked, bigtime in my sim account. Nary a single outlier win was to be had, after strings of small losses (8-10 in a row). I believe I had about 2 wins and 20 losses, roughly. All profits were given back and in an orgy of...

They are the psychological equivalent of a head wind. If you pay too much attention to whatever form of passive resistance is opposing you, it will just piss you off, and you will waste perfectly good energy in dissipation. The solution: Spandex :eek:

Wondering the same about you. What kind of a man can't blow out the brains of an armed pirate who waited in ambush for innocent life? You liberals are so irrational. I'd like you to spend a few weeks near a ghetto and report back. You know, stop and get gas after the sun sets, walk down...

How to figure out what The Market is going to do: 1. Put yourself in the position of a Muppet (trusting, innocent, naive, expect that what is in motion will remain in motion) 2. Picture the inside of the Muppet's mind. Note where they will be forced to act, under what conditions they...

How about an example. We tend to project ourselves onto those around us.

This may be why you do not present any ideas yourself, you are whipped. While I agree, like minds seek each other out - it also tends to happen that losers seek to trash winners, hence the nature of successful people who naturally avoid idiots

"little did he know that more gold has been mined from the brains of men then was ever taken out of the ground" -Napolean Hill

Huge volatility breakout today on APPY. It's all there - a long thin base following liquidation, volume expansion, good fundamental progress on their product and low institutional ownership. This fits a pattern I've been seeing in these pharma companies - they get a new drug or medical...

I've never seen a market crash without making a lower high first. Momo stocks can get smacked with no warning after a smooth run, and so can parabolic PM's, but the indices have a lot more playerz involved. Dow theory is still in effect. :eek:

Chartists, have you ever wondered if the bollinger band may be used as a guide for buying the retracement during a trend? How about using them to decide if a trend is even there? I've wondered this since my first month trading, when I watched my positions get checked by the bands on many...

It took me several months to adjust to how stunningly beautiful the ladies were in Alabama, coming from a life in Oregon. I see this pattern in every conservative state. It almost appears as if liberals are ashamed of themselves, overcome with guilt, and their appearance reflects the denial...

For someone with innate talent, I agree, rules (aside from risk management) limit your potential. The vast majority of us, however, are not naturally suited for this game and must quantify our behavior, test it, continually recalibrate it, etc. But if you've got what it takes to be a...

I grew up in liberal Oregon. Since then I've traveled on business all over the US and, coincidentally, spent the most time in the "deep south"........... My conclusion: Oregon is the most covertly racist place I've ever been to, yet the irony is they will not stand up and contain the...

"and when you receive persecution for My name's sake, leap for joy in that day, for great is your reward in heaven" Depraved man is focused on this life, on this world, on the here and now, and his end will be eternal destruction. "he who seeks to save his life will lose it, but he who...

It's the nature of trend following. When the markets are not in the mood to trend, your signals would make the perfect range entries, if you switched the direction! :)

BTFD

Easy to increase the win rate with a little curve fitted profit targeting / trailing stoppage applied. Really smooths out the equity result.

Praise the LORD, and pass the ammunition.

A similar situation happened in an ancient city called Sodom, although with a different outcome. Visitors arrived, men of the city showed up to gang rape them, they were all struck with blindness, the righteous were commanded to evacuate and poof - the entire population was obliterated off the...

The triple bottom was deceiving. When it finally broke, I had a bad feeling......