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[SpecialPerson]

Spanish,

It's nice to see that you learned to not listen to other people so early on in your career.

Listening to other people has cost me $100s of thousands in both losses and opportunity cost.

It think that percentages don't really mean a thing. You have been making money because markets are volatile and that is good for trading. I love this volatility. It has been amazing, and has put money into my account too.

When the volatility dies, you have to be prepared to not make as much or you have to change your strategy completely.

 

[blackjack666]

Yeah Spanish. Shorted the oil a few times and also threw a short on the pound/yen.

Just trading the same old way. Looking for a bit of a spike to short on the oil each time etc. Sometimes just using small time frames.

Be back later - off out to buy some new football boots lol. Old ones finally 'gave in' over the weekend!

 

[spanish89]

Quote from SpecialPerson:

Spanish,

It's nice to see that you learned to not listen to other people so early on in your career.

Listening to other people has cost me $100s of thousands in both losses and opportunity cost.

It think that percentages don't really mean a thing. You have been making money because markets are volatile and that is good for trading. I love this volatility. It has been amazing, and has put money into my account too.

When the volatility dies, you have to be prepared to not make as much or you have to change your strategy completely.

Cheers mate.

I used to listen to what some traders from t2w used to say about 7 t 9 months ago when i 1st started trading,
But other people do is give you crap advice on purpose for a joke, give you advice but not tell you the whole explanation, or give you tips that then fail and are wrong. lol

Like when they kept telling me to close all my sell trades on oil when i was selling back in teh 140s (my stoplosses at 156-176), trade $1 t $2s down, they kept saying stuff liek when trichet speaks about euro its gna blast eeuro.usd through 1.6, oil through 150, and you will lose all your money....

So i took alot of big losses like that cos of them, however pricks who was especially fx scalper decided it would be fun to tell me all that fundamental stuff, but not exlain to me, who was just a young newbie back then, about the whole thing of 'news being priced into the market already'!!! :eek:


Ahhhh i remember that old fool. lol
Lost me alot of money back then..

But even though hes convinced himself that hes a great experienced trader, all the guy is is a pure gambler (calls it scalping), by making 100s bets per day and just hoing that more of those will win than lose!





And well done jacker!


Im now at £215 profit for the day (no open trades), well apart from my hbos long!

And so im extremely happy with that, as i went from being down -£266 after my 1st 2 trades, which was seriously demoralising, to going back out and earning £481 profit from then on!!


Im now thinking of a £2 long from 71.52 area, but not sure i will unless we start to see another shorts squeeze like last month!! hehe

 

[alientrader]

fx scalper sounds like a prick

 

[spanish89]

K made my trade at 71.56

Like normal oil crashes agaisnt me 15secs later... lol


BUt now is back up and ive made a chart to shw what my targets are + teh triple bottom formed....

 

[spanish89]

GRRRR!!!


I only made £58 from it cos i bailed out early at 71.92, when if id have left it with my preset level at 72.32 itd have been a perfect take and £80 more!!

And then lost £16 on another chasing long.


Now waiting for shorting time

 

[spanish89]

Ooooh thats me done for the day!!

That last 15mins shorts squeeze was sooo beautiful, even if i did miss an £80! lol

I still managed to take £384 lovely tax free profit for today, £168 coming in those last 16mins.


So its a very nice way to start the 1st day of this november contract for me.


How much you took of that jacker???
Please dont say you were out buying your boots still n misse dit all?? :eek:




Today's closed trades (Full Trade History)
Contract Order # Date/Time Buy/Sell £/tic Tic Size Price Profit/Loss
[+]Nymex Crude Oil - Dec Daily Fut
Nymex Crude Oil - Dec Daily Fut 5950385 21/10/2008 14:34 Buy 1 0.01 72.19
Nymex Crude Oil - Dec Daily Fut 5950412 21/10/2008 14:35 Sell 1 0.01 72.50 £31.00
Nymex Crude Oil - Dec Daily Fut 5953400 21/10/2008 19:19 Buy 2 0.01 72.39
Nymex Crude Oil - Dec Daily Fut 5953406 21/10/2008 19:20 Sell 2 0.01 72.31 £-16.00
[+]NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5949769 21/10/2008 13:27 Buy 2 0.01 72.98
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5949812 21/10/2008 13:34 Sell 2 0.01 72.65 £-66.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5949828 21/10/2008 13:37 Buy 2 0.01 72.90
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950040 21/10/2008 13:58 Sell 2 0.01 71.90 £-200.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950096 21/10/2008 14:01 Buy 4 0.01 71.69
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950207 21/10/2008 14:01 Buy 4 0.01 71.69
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950207 21/10/2008 14:08 Sell 4 0.01 0.00 Stop Loss Move
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950250 21/10/2008 14:12 Sell 4 0.01 72.13 £176.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950283 21/10/2008 14:16 Buy 3 0.01 71.94
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950290 21/10/2008 14:16 Buy 3 0.01 71.94
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950290 21/10/2008 14:17 Sell 3 0.01 0.00 Stop Loss Move
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5950330 21/10/2008 14:26 Sell 3 0.01 72.11 £51.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5951803 21/10/2008 16:24 Buy 2 0.01 71.08
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5951816 21/10/2008 16:24 Buy 2 0.01 71.08
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5951816 21/10/2008 16:25 Sell 2 0.01 0.00 Stop Loss Move
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5951940 21/10/2008 16:41 Sell 2 0.01 71.58 £100.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5951955 21/10/2008 16:44 Buy 2 0.01 71.46
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5952840 21/10/2008 18:10 Buy 1 0.01 71.24
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5952847 21/10/2008 18:10 Buy 1 0.01 71.24
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5952847 21/10/2008 18:11 Sell 1 0.01 0.00 Stop Loss Move
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5952906 21/10/2008 18:21 Sell 1 0.01 71.58 £34.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5952906 21/10/2008 18:21 Sell 2 0.01 71.58 £24.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5952948 21/10/2008 18:23 Buy 3 0.01 71.65
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5952971 21/10/2008 18:27 Sell 3 0.01 71.87 £66.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953187 21/10/2008 18:53 Buy 2 0.01 71.57
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953347 21/10/2008 18:53 Buy 2 0.01 71.57
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953347 21/10/2008 19:15 Sell 2 0.01 0.00 Stop Loss Move
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953378 21/10/2008 19:17 Sell 2 0.01 71.86 £58.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953462 21/10/2008 19:25 Buy 2 0.01 71.75
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953474 21/10/2008 19:26 Sell 2 0.01 71.98 £46.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953486 21/10/2008 19:27 Buy 2 0.01 72.01
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953492 21/10/2008 19:28 Sell 2 0.01 72.25 £48.00
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953510 21/10/2008 19:30 Sell 2 0.01 72.11
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953519 21/10/2008 19:30 Sell 2 0.01 72.11
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953519 21/10/2008 19:31 Buy 2 0.01 0.00 Stop Loss Move
NymexCrude Dec Fut - 19 Nov, 08 5953532 21/10/2008 19:33 Buy 2 0.01 71.95 £32.00

 

[blackjack666]

Quote from spanish89:




How much you took of that jacker???
Please dont say you were out buying your boots still n misse dit all?? :eek:

LOL...Pretty much!

Still content though with my £210 for today I guess. Hopefully make lots more tomorrow. Wanna hit 11k this week really...

 

[spanish89]

You managed to get on the right side of the oil number jacker??


I sold at £3 tick as soon as i heard 3million vs 2.6 expected and saw dip, got filled at 67.87, best i saw was a quick dip down to 67.55, but then it rocketed back up and now just doing its sideways stuff again.

So i took a loss of £210 at 68.52, which im not happy about.


Oils is such an annoying nightmare to itrda-day trade with scalps!!

 

[spanish89]

FUCK!!!

If id gambled and just left it on id have gone back into £50 profit, instead of taking stupid loss.

Ive now just bought oil £3 tick from 67.94, stoploss at 64.93, cos this is just getting fuking ridiculous now!!


If you look at the chart we have basically just slid in a non-stop straightline, and so there will be bounce no matter how much everyone who is still selling hates it!!