Quote from marketsurfer:
Cornix and Doji claim to use TA and money management to great success--- All they look at is price, maybe volume to make decisions--- I say it is impossible to consistently profit this way without other inputs---
They have made the claims, they need to prove the claims, not me.
surf
The only input I use for my trade entries and trade management is price action:
The action of price signals a potential trade.
The action of price following the signal either fills my order or fails to do so.
The action of price following a filled order either causes price to hit my profit target or hit my stop loss, unless somewhere in between a conflicting signal appears in which case a new order is placed to either exit the position and wait for clarity or exit the position and reverse to the other side.
The only inputs I use in order to see valid setups (setups that meet the criteria of my trading plan) are individual price bars on a 5-min chart and a 1-min chart.
The only filtering mechanism I use to determine where technically reasonable stops and targets should be so I can calculate my risk:reward ratio on the trade ahead of time is support and resistance lines.
The only fundamental filtering mechanism I use is a calendar of major news releases. I avoid putting on any trades 10 minutes ahead of jobless claims, NFP, FOMC, Beige Book and CL inventories.
I don't use volume at all.
Quote from sellindexvol66:
surf..why do they "have to prove their claims"?
they both have on occasion posted blotters which is better than 99% of talkers here.
I posted my
daily results on the P/L threads from 2008 to 2010. I'd say that's more than "on occasion".
Quote from marketsurfer:
I don't know if its an intially optimal way or not----- but certainly the exposure it will bring you is far greater than most could do on their own. In addition, if you and ND could really do what you say, and demonstate it on the combine, YOU wil be making the rules to real investors very very soon.
I still don't understand the fear-- its only upside unless you ( plural) are afraid to be exposed as not really being capable.
surf
There is no fear, nor is there upside. The way I trade the instrument I trade is not highly scalable. I've been invited to trade OPM and have no interest because a) it would involve learning to trade all over again in a very different fashion, and b) it would be a full time job where I'd have to answer to other people. I doubt anyone managing OPM is an intraday scalper.
