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    Looking for a Trading Coach?

    There are many kinds of traders just as there are many kinds of sailors. If a person has an edge orientation, what does he occupy his time with? When sidelined he looks to enter. When in a trade, he is doing something else. The consideration of what traders do when they are in the market...
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    block trading...how is it?

    The data is out there.
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    POLL: What is Your Position Sizing Method???

    Market pace which determines capacity.
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    Looking for a Trading Coach?

    See attached.
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    Looking for a Trading Coach?

    You are suggesting stuff related to the conventional orthodoxy which you yourself believe in. As has been written and backed up by physical and psychological significant testing, the conventional orthodoxy (referred to by Lo, MIT as Standard Orthodoxy) there are three pervasive emotions...
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    block trading...how is it?

    My T&S display is different than yours. I also have a different mind set than you do. As is often the case, people do not understand what I am saying. Trading at high money velocities is basically foreign to most people. I put up the example of Greenspoon who is under treatment by...
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    Trading based on patterns

    There are probably three things you can do to well exceed the CO (Conventional Orthodoxy) testing results. 1. Front run the triangle BO's. 2. Break the H&S into 6 parts. 3. Break the double bottoms and tops into 4 parts. The general schema for this is to use bit masks containing data...
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    block trading...how is it?

    100,000 shares for entries and for exits for position trading where an entry or exit is done in one portion of one day without affecting the market. The partial fills for this are determined by the block sizes showing on the T and S. Do not exceed the blocks on T&S.
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    block trading...how is it?

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    block trading...how is it?

    For me, block trading is a required technique for a stream of capital. I consider my position in a stream of capital a block since it meets the definition by its size and my trading strategy, PVT or sector rotation. Both require that I exit or enter according too timing. Timing the markets...
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    Millionaire Traders - Market Maker or Market Taker?

    Please take a moment and put me on ignore. Thank you.
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    How to sell your system

    Here is an alternative view. I sweep the market place periodically. What I look for is bait and switch marketing efforts. To shut these down it involves three groups: the marketer; the person who delivers product; and the associated legal aggregation. It has turned out that often the...
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    Millionaire Traders - Market Maker or Market Taker?

    Thanks for your response. I'm happy for the intern; hopes she links the trades she is doing. My post was a calm and logically developed one and may be beneficial for a range of traders. I can appreciate your real world and how you are basically surrounded by those of like mind. Go over...
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    Millionaire Traders - Market Maker or Market Taker?

    Envision an intern, a staffer and a quote. The intern has made it through the hoops and the staffer want some results from the intern. He turns to a quote in a book. entering continuation makes money he says by quoting. The intern knows this; she wants to do all of continuation...
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    Easy Math problem, help

    get a calculator do x^y the values to use are 1 plus the daily % as a decimal for x and 100 for y. then the answer is multiplied by your starting capital, 20K. On an H/P your need to press the yellow key to get to the X^Y formula.
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    Millionaire Traders - Market Maker or Market Taker?

    It will become a very neat day when Askan takes the next step in learning. Your staff should consider it too. Your intern saw it right off.
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    Thinking errors

    Very nice post. There is an IQ set (your post) and an equally importaant EQ set. The intersection provides a universe of cells that allows one to gain a focus of the path followed by persons going one way or another relative to performance and relative to learning, should or while learning...
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    Millionaire Traders - Market Maker or Market Taker?

    Its going to be my Bloomberg greeting tag tomorrow.....lol..... I do not use stops either. I do recommend that others do while learning. Refer to the chart I made of the 12 ways and use the number 8 or 9, the spike offset set up.
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    Is becoming a quant a waste of time?

    Young trader may be making a point. You are operating on one financial level; he is on another level. Let me be more specific. Your price range and Mark's are a little different. So are the roles and and Mark assign to quants. This limitation is not one that the retail trader faces...
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    Millionaire Traders - Market Maker or Market Taker?

    Thanks for your response; I really appreciated it. We certainly agree that it is all about psychology. Regarding weather, I have a passion for sailing, gliding and skiing. someone will send you a T shirt, I'm sure. The weather and its dynamic often separates the winners from the losers when...
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