Dear sirs,
What parallels can be drawn between music and trading. As any of you who have read my posts know, I have been direct access trading for about 2 and 3/8 days now but what the hell,
So I figured the first thing to do was get my gear set up right. I come from a music background and in that field you are usually better off with solid gear, than a strong knowledge of what your work may entail for that day.
So, I got TCNET, esignal, and MBNavigator which, is the interface to MBTrading. I set this stuff up on 4 PCs . I still run scottrader on the fourth. Using Scottrader is like listening to the Ramones compared to these other softwares. I like it better. It makes you feel like the kid who wore Sears jeans.
But, like I said I've only had this stuff for 2 days now. That may change.
After I set all this stuff up, I chopped the bases off of all the monitors so that it would look more like the trading desk that I saw on the Bright trading website. Because in my neighborhood, you could never see a trading room in real life. You could only see them on the internet or in some magazine that you can only get at the good bookstore.
So now I'm surrounded with 4 PCs and a TV set.
This set up is reminds me of when I was a drummer and set up a 14 piece fire engine red [Neil Peart] drum set with to Zildjan cymbals. I would step away from it and stare it down with my arms crossed every five minutes just to make sure it looked right. It also has about 30 pieces. My trading setup is more like the keyboard setup Rick Wakeman used with Yes in 74-75. Perhaps if I wore a long white flowing robe?....Nah that's Stupid.
I've got to get some more clocks.
So, where's the art in this?
In all the trading books I've read, at least once you hear someone say that "Trading is an Art Form." Like what?
It has a physical manifestation. Money or, the Destruction of
Money. Is this the result we are to observe as Art? Or is it in the reading and subsequent analysis of the traders performance culminating in the execution of trade. Or watching someone else trade. Wait, I know this one. Put them in a theatre trading forex at midnight on a Thursday night, Serve drinks at the bar, and call it like a horse race while viewing the results on ceiling high television screens.
That would be Rad.
What elements of Art forms can be drawn upon to enhance ones trading technique? In music there are for example many blues and jazz musicians who would say "I don't know anything about that technical harmony or jazz analysis. I just play what I hear.
And they sound great. Are there traders that just trade by feel?
the flow of the markets and what-not.
Like snowboarders of charts
Thank you
DNA
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What parallels can be drawn between music and trading. As any of you who have read my posts know, I have been direct access trading for about 2 and 3/8 days now but what the hell,
So I figured the first thing to do was get my gear set up right. I come from a music background and in that field you are usually better off with solid gear, than a strong knowledge of what your work may entail for that day.
So, I got TCNET, esignal, and MBNavigator which, is the interface to MBTrading. I set this stuff up on 4 PCs . I still run scottrader on the fourth. Using Scottrader is like listening to the Ramones compared to these other softwares. I like it better. It makes you feel like the kid who wore Sears jeans.
But, like I said I've only had this stuff for 2 days now. That may change.
After I set all this stuff up, I chopped the bases off of all the monitors so that it would look more like the trading desk that I saw on the Bright trading website. Because in my neighborhood, you could never see a trading room in real life. You could only see them on the internet or in some magazine that you can only get at the good bookstore.
So now I'm surrounded with 4 PCs and a TV set.
This set up is reminds me of when I was a drummer and set up a 14 piece fire engine red [Neil Peart] drum set with to Zildjan cymbals. I would step away from it and stare it down with my arms crossed every five minutes just to make sure it looked right. It also has about 30 pieces. My trading setup is more like the keyboard setup Rick Wakeman used with Yes in 74-75. Perhaps if I wore a long white flowing robe?....Nah that's Stupid.
I've got to get some more clocks.
So, where's the art in this?
In all the trading books I've read, at least once you hear someone say that "Trading is an Art Form." Like what?
It has a physical manifestation. Money or, the Destruction of
Money. Is this the result we are to observe as Art? Or is it in the reading and subsequent analysis of the traders performance culminating in the execution of trade. Or watching someone else trade. Wait, I know this one. Put them in a theatre trading forex at midnight on a Thursday night, Serve drinks at the bar, and call it like a horse race while viewing the results on ceiling high television screens.
That would be Rad.
What elements of Art forms can be drawn upon to enhance ones trading technique? In music there are for example many blues and jazz musicians who would say "I don't know anything about that technical harmony or jazz analysis. I just play what I hear.
And they sound great. Are there traders that just trade by feel?
the flow of the markets and what-not.
Like snowboarders of charts
Thank you
DNA
9