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I never looked as much as a few seconds at a chart when I was doing options. It was pure spreadsheet based. So I really know were some guys are coming from when they say they don't need charts for trading. Nowadays charts are all I look at. It took me quite a few years to do the transition.

No Surf, I don't live 100% off of trading at this moment (as you knew allready before you asked the question). The reason is very complex and I like to keep that one to people that know me personally. It mainly has to do with health problems (it's an immens long story spanning 25 years of my...

Surf, I did five trades today: the first was breakeven, the second one went to +27 but I took profit at +20 cause that's my target, the third one went to +37 (again +20 for me) the fourth one went to +23 (again +20) my last one was a -8 loser (my current stop). Overall I made 52 pips, minus some...

Surf, technical analysis works just as well intraday in FX. It might take you quite a while to really get it. I can't say I got this quickly. The only thing I ever got quickly was options cause a lot of math was involved. I seem to need that as a framework. Long discussions with cornix and a...

one thing is sure STOCK777, you didn't make even one dollar out of it ...

anybody trying to trade CL is simply insane imo: just look at last nights trading ... you'll find 30 tick one minute bars in the middle of nowhere ... you simply don't want to be trading that ...

yes, there are ... I don't have any English links ... but it was in the Flemish financial newspaper De Tijd ...

guys, you should have a better read on the current proposals ... even if they pass daytraders in futures are going to be excempted on the Tobin tax ... so all this talking is a lot to do abnout nothing ...

In fact surf: it's just the things like 'long' bars etc. that's the way that good TA has to be used (intraday I emphasis again ...)

that question is still out surf, even though I got stopped out on this one ... I always told I am much better on short term tf's ... making a bold long term call sure was a mistake, that much I must admit ... it's really not my game ... so in that sense 'I' was wrong ...

I'm putting a stop on this at 1.3360 and learned another lesson in life allready ... I better stick to my intraday analysis ... this long term stuff only gets me stressed out and really isn't quite my game .... :D

Just to warn you and to hedge myself only in the slightest sense: my timing might be slightly off (it might be actually tomorrow that we see 1.3130) but the general idea is what is actually going to happen. I found no way yet to do actual exact timing on this stuff. I got big suspicions though...

In fact I agree with that Surf :) ... TA analysis works big time ... but I am just as much convinced that it can't be coded ... it's way too multidimensional ...

Surf: you want a technical analysis prediction ? I am going to give you one: we are now at 1.3315 in euro, in the coming hours we are going to go to at least 1.3130 (by tonight). This will lead to a further downmove to the 1.2870 area in the coming days. No bullshit behind the fact, no hindsight...

electronic eyes ...

yes, it's 'easier to do', but harder to make decent money ... ;-). If you were a market maker in the eighties or nineties options were a real free lunch if you knew what you were doing by being deltaneutral.

Natenberg was written a real long time ago ... things used to be different then, if you had the (huge) edge of the spread, delta-neutral was the way to go ... times have changed with penny-spreads ... being delta-neutral nowadays has become much harder ... some manage to do well still with...

ha, well that sure worked with me ... :D hope you understand though I don't feel like giving the exact formula away (just like coca cola doens't see any good coming out of that ) ... it took me too many years to find it ... Cornixforex is a kinder soul in that aspect as he is quite willing to...

thanks, it took years of failure to become one :D I can easily see why people give up on this and say it can't be done ... I was just stubborn and also kinda forced to really get this in the end due to healthproblems ... it somehow worked out well in the end ... the things I use can't be found...

and yes to your PS, options used to have a really great edge :D . I must admit I am not able to play that game anymore since a long time, pennyspreads ruined it for me ... a more mathematical kind of traders took over there with intermarket arbitrage ... I am not quite in that league ... but it...