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    Simple Profitable Method

    This is a common platform difficulty. You may be able to move the forming bar over but the platform cannot put information (annotations to the right of the forming bar. Adding additional plarforms is just something that is part of life for making money. We canwork up to that somehow and as...
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    Simple Profitable Method

    How making money works. Tarding is done in NOW. Real time data flows into your computer and you monitor. There is one price bar and it is forming in NOW The bar is "inside" the world that concerns you as a person making money. All aspects o the bar's environment are to the left...
  3. J

    Simple Profitable Method

    I rewrote the above to make it what it the correct set up for about 1/4 of your screen. Apply this to ES or any index.
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    Simple Profitable Method

    Most of us draw channels by hand since none of the approaches you listed work. The reason that they do not work is because of how they are programmed by programmers. I keep the right1/3 of my screen to the right of the forming bar. This space contains three channels of differing duration...
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    Simple Profitable Method

    By your describing what you are doing, it is possible for others to put in a "fix"for you by just a few adjustments. I hope some others can recognize these adjustments by making a few comparisons and, then, they can give you the segway to improved results.
  6. J

    Simple Profitable Method

    Price and volume are the major things to focus upon. Annotating them with three levels of channels and their repective internal patterns and formations out into the future is what makes them work for you. By adding the MACD and it's histogram you get to see a 0 based indcator work for you...
  7. J

    Simple Profitable Method

    PVT stands for Position Vector Trading. It is used to trade a high quality universe of stocks Their particular characteristic is that they are repeatable and reliable. These two characterisitcs make it possible to trade them effectively and efficiently. For me, position trading is done in...
  8. J

    Staying focused and alert

    Thanks so much. This is a good place to look at the nitty gritty. Too bad that thread got closed and I got banned.
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    Staying focused and alert

    I feel that four pages a day is appropriate. I divide my log into several vertical parts. In the middle I make comments and on either side there is mostly facts. The right side is the trading stuff and on the left, I keep a more or less technical running tab. The day rolls along in...
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    what the heck is going on ?

    This is a settlement rsponse.
  11. J

    Spydertrader's Jack Hershey Equities Journal II

    Your comment here is a major clue for you. Spyder posted a commentary on the market movement and how about five or six pertibations come along during a hold period. They have names like stall, dip, etc.... For each of these there are ancillary conditions that precribe how to handle the...
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    Stocks that have moved x % in x time

    This an easy and very dynamic measure to take. Furthermore, you can view it in a relative way for the stocks you are tracking. I am not sure of a few details of your question however. If you have an overall selection criteria to be focused on a particular universe, the you can put...
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    Is trading completely useless?

    The daily settlement at 1:15 (NYSE time) collectively, is the measure of what you speak. That net flow drives supply and demand and thus the dynamic of the market. As you say, current value is determine by those participating actively in the markets. Right now, we are down about 5 billion...
  14. J

    Is trading completely useless?

    Drill a hole in the pipe. I drill according to what is flowing in the pipe so that the fow comes to my account. Quants are people who work for BIG money using the leaks you are talking about. EMH is what keeps the pipe from rattling as the flow goes through it. EMH is the set of brackets...
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    Staying focused and alert

    Post all of the pages of your log from yesterday, please.
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    What do you base your % risk on?

    Divide the 40K into two parts of 20K each. Only trade reliable and repeatable stocks using leading indicators of price. At first, enter without rushing and then exit when a new trade presents itself even if you haven't peaked on price for what you own. Go to four streams of capital when...
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    Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    I am just posting a very relaxed response to you. This is not anything that casts any criticism of you or anyone in your boat. There is no parallel (personal) in the example I am giving you with respect to the other persons in the example. You will see in the end everything works out...
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    Is trading completely useless?

    Thanks for responding. That was unfortunate. The theme of the thead is market utility (stated in a productive way) and getting EMH down cold in interactive settings (meaning classrooms) really flushes out how to pick out where money is to be made. The heirarchy that builds on money, power...
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    Simple Profitable Method

    Vienna, Let me address making money with you. The average of ET taders in ES is 1 point a day average net profit. For a margin of 2,000 bucks per contract Lets determine he annal net for the player at this level. he could only have three smaller nets per day as a practicality and still...
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    Is trading completely useless?

    Don't worry about it. B schools have great students. EMH gets a lot of attention. and Lo has cracked the door open on his CMH which gets a lot of math attention. EMH just sets the scene for making money. CMH will just be a convenient price smoother. If Columbus were sailing...
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