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when you have nailed it you only need one market - one market will buy everything you would ever want. one market allows you to actually be positioned to kill it. why do surgeons specialize? why do athletes specialize? look up the word specialize! "to become a expert"

simulated trading you make money - real trading you lose money.

i have lost shit tons of money so yea i'm pretty brilliant when it comes to trading.

DESCRIPTION: Popularized by Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez's book, Short Term Trading Strategies That Work, this program will use a three day cumulative RSI indicator as a buy trigger for entries in the S&P 500 market. ts code that was posted free on a forum

wolf wave, elliot wave on and on if it's subjective how you going to program that? i did a google search for this pattern and there seems to be a new rule for every-time it fails.

here is how i see your trades, because the bar has to close for the signal to form. otherwise how would you know at the open of the bar that the pattern has been met? i broke down the trades individually so you can see what is really happening. the last two trades i don't know where they will...

chart of the random walk - however when you tame it with standard deviation it becomes a little more predictable as far as timing.

i have exhausted alot of energy chasing after vix models for people and i think there isn't crap there. even though i have good models using the vix i say its crap because i can just trade the sp without using the vix and do better. so i gave up on vix.

market profile shows you where to trade reversion to the mean and where to trade momentum outside the value area. one of the most reliable tools ever when you get the hang of it. also think it's the only "indicator" that the cbot-cme licenses for use.

i thought i was a trader then i was mentored by a trader and during that time found out i was a hardware guy doing computer floors, lieberts, cabling, sat dishes, fiber up elevator shafts etc. and i did it all. plus i was the programmer, analyst, researcher, spy, sleuth, intel thief etc. you...

what book have you read that you like and that may reveal the type trader you will be.

picture a guy in a jeep he is stopped at a river crossing that looks treacherous. as he tries to decide to cross or not. up stream a few hundred yards he spies a group of fellow jeepers approaching the river at a fast pace they never slow and breeze across the river with no problem. you are...

I am sure lurking on this thread.

profit 2-3 times the risk good starting point

yes clearly a bullish triangle buy on first or second rsi retracement or %r in your case you would have been dollars ahead of the game. do what is unconformable to make money get positive slippage. have a backup plan to sell reverse and or stop out if you can only go long. but for sake's...

unless you have actually configured all the above i think you can have no appreciation for how fraught with disaster any of those combinations are to properly setup. years ago i fed tradestation 2000 with tt dual sub server and fed that to matlab it cost me 10k to get done and it programmed by...

you had two chances to buy it lower and you waited for it to prove to you what it was going to do. now you are going to get your ass hammered buying a high that is going to shake you out and cause you pain that you deserve. next time buy it low on percent r signal.

yea man i was reading all your post and i am where i have to start learning about all that calories, fat readings and stuff. i am AMAZED i have gotten this far, i need to exercise badly. i use to bicycle using a small folding single speed bike but where i live now it's impossible. i refuse to...

my blood pressure was 190 or so and when i got out of ICU they said rather than go on heart medicine try a low sodium diet. so i am overweight near 200 need to be about 150-60 so i am now 180 since being on the 4 hour fast for less than a month. i have been on low sodium diet for two months...