Quote from abattia:
What's your "favorite" way to determine quickly whether the market is choppy or trending?
Attached is a brief read for you.
Unfortunately, What you do and what I do do not overlap. I never suggest that a person change paradigms. As a person learns to trade he makes decisions and acquires beliefs. This is a natural process and the decisions come from where the person is.
Making money is important to support a life style. It is usually not possible for a person to change life styles or his set of first recourses from his long term memory as he senses things.
Elsewhere I commented on a person who made a judgment that led him to another of his off base conclusions. The trend and chop is firmly embedded in CW type thinking. You have it in your long term memory and you are adding what you can to reinforce the path you are on. This is what most people do.
The whole financial industry uses the CW to do what they do. In my comments elsewhere, I acknowledged that it is normal to continue to use this built long term memory as a basis for judgment, conclusions and further learning. The consequence is evident and well documented all over the place.
To elect to become immune to this convention financially, it just not within reason for most people. They get the consequences of their decisions and feel very fortunate and emotionally situated.
If a person is learning and wanting to trade successfully, he should check out his emotions occassionally. You can "read" a person's emotions in their posting.
Obviously, what I posted and attached is a rant, for example..... lol...