On the fundamentalism of PA traders

Quote from Joab:

This is really a SIMPLE subject with a SIMPLE answer.

If your making money and your happy about how you are doing it then shut the F up and leave other people alone.

I use whatever I have too, to help me get an understanding or where PRICE is going and I use indicators as well as price action as well as channels etc, etc.. I would even use dog shit if it helped me make more money.

If your in this business because you have to be right then your already beat. Be in this business to make money and that's it.

To each their own :cool:
Might be the best post in this thread.
 
Quote from AlpineTrout:

The fundamental problem with indicators, and I think you'll agree, is that no indicator works well in both range bound and trending markets.

You aren't using the right indicator.
 
Quote from jmonday:

Anek uses volume 10k + 100k anchor and a time based 5sec chart for entries and he's damn good at it. The best i've ever seen, but whats even more impressive is his willingness to help and teach others...

Is that all that Anek is using these days? I know he likes to improve his system. I thought I saw him using more time based charts lately.
 
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11-20-08 07:25 AM



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Quote from optioncoach:

One thing all major league in baseball agree on, if a guy is hitting .300 or 30 homers a year on average, you do not try and fix his batting stance to what you deem to be "correct" you let him hit the way he is comfortable and successful....

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Actually many professional athletes are constantly trying improve their games. Baseball players change their batting stances regardless of their average and coaches work on those stances with them. The same is try with successful quarterbacks and their throwing motions and footwork and the same is true of successful basketball players. Tennis players at the top level of their game have personal trainers that do nothing but work on their swings with them.
 
Quote from vingbel:

Quote from optioncoach:

One thing all major league in baseball agree on, if a guy is hitting .300 or 30 homers a year on average, you do not try and fix his batting stance to what you deem to be "correct" you let him hit the way he is comfortable and successful....

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Actually many professional athletes are constantly trying improve their games.

I agree with optioncoach on this one.

A .300 average and 30 HR a year is a first class ticket to the Hall of Fame.

You don't mess with something like that, you don't even try to tweak it, not even if looking at his swing makes you want to blow chunks.
 
Quote from jprad:

I agree with optioncoach on this one.

A .300 average and 30 HR a year is a first class ticket to the Hall of Fame.

You don't mess with something like that, you don't even try to tweak it, not even if looking at his swing makes you want to blow chunks.

You may agree with that (me, too, by the way,) but talk to any professional ball player and you'll see that what I wrote earlier is more accurate.
 
Anything that shows up on your screen is historical and by definition lagging.

Anything that uses multiple elements of historical data - eg, "higher high" - is an indicator.

Anything that uses indicators with a time cutoff - eg, only look at "today" data - has time dependency and therefore has periodicity.

I must admit I am completely baffled by the PA/non-PA vehemence as you're all doing exactly the same thing - making bets on future movements using a historical time series of price.

Peace, out.
 
Funny how anyone can feel they have the authority to state the "correct" way. Traders always need to justify their own ego by ensuring that others agree with the way they trade as being the only way and the "correct" way.

One thing all major league in baseball agree on, if a guy is hitting .300 or 30 homers a year on average, you do not try and fix his batting stance to what you deem to be "correct" you let him hit the way he is comfortable and successful (Nomar comes to mind).

Thousands of ways to trade and make money as many traders do and no one person is an authority to state the only "correct" way to trade.
Unfortunately, there is but one correct method.
 
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