Successful Trading - Advice and Guidance

Quote from tradewiz50:

You can go to college and pay for a semester's "tuition" and not learn a fucking thing. :eek:

When I did that I eventually learned that if you spent your time partying and not going to class you wasted your tuition. But I did learn something.:D
 
Quote from tradewiz50:

You can go to college and pay for a semester's "tuition" and not learn a fucking thing. :eek:

It gets worse. You can go to college and learn the wrong things. It can take years to unlearn erroneous opinions/beliefs.
Fuck the tuition.
 
Quote from 40yotrader:

3. Reduce emotional inputs while trading real money. I put tape over the screen where my P/L is displayed so I don't focus on it. I minimize my charts so I don't start trying to improve on my systems. Turn off CNBC. You'll be bombarded with opinions that'll have you second guessing all day long.

The result... I have few inputs to elevate my stress while trading. All I can do is follow my systems and check the results later.
Important stuff, much more so than many realize. I like the tape idea. Thanks 40yo

Ursa..
 
Quote from Cheese:

No thank you.
The market is a rational place, explicable by rational understanding, open to logical analysis and a willing cornucopia but only to those who can master its field of play.
Period.
:)
Quote from Cheese:
No, losses are part of being a loser.
:)
Quote from Cheese:

There is no madness only prices; that means willing buyers and sellers. Very rational. Bubble, same as any other time; it had buy and sell prices, upmoves and downmoves. Now how difficult is that?
:)

I thought I had finally found something that Cheese said that I disagreed with.

Surely a trader must have some losers, and there is drawdown, right?

Between Cheese, Steve46 and MyMini these guys have made me think and ponder about good trading a lot more than I thought I would ... partially becasue while they say they won't tell you explicitly what they do (actually Steve46 has), they keep leaving footprints every time they post on a discussion board.

The biggest step I ever had to take was realzing that while I might be right in terms of what I was thinking, they not only were not wrong, but they had gone beyond the basic (and intermediate - i.e., my level) levels of thinking about trading to a point where taking anything other than small losses, much less consecutive losses of any size, was very difficult if not impossble using their styles of trading.

Thanks guys. :) :cool:

Best Regards,

Jimmy Jam
 
Quote from JimmyJam:

where taking anything other than small losses, much less consecutive losses of any size, was very difficult if not impossble using their styles of trading.

Huh? What are you talking about?
 
small losses

Small is a relative term. What´s a small loss for a pit trader in the CME, you know the guys trading on 200 contract lots at the SP pit... might be consider huge by anyone of us...


just remember that it´s all in your head.
 
Quote from Mike805:

Huh? What are you talking about?

use the search engine.

review the writings of Steve46, Cheese and My Mini.

come back here and let us know what you find out.
 
Quote from eusdaiki:

Small is a relative term. What´s a small loss for a pit trader in the CME, you know the guys trading on 200 contract lots at the SP pit... might be consider huge by anyone of us...


just remember that it´s all in your head.

no, it's not.

it's all in the numbers.

as calculated on a point basis, small losses, are small.
 
Quote from JimmyJam:

use the search engine.

review the writings of Steve46, Cheese and My Mini.

come back here and let us know what you find out.

Okay, lets try again without a condescending reply.

I've been here a while and have read most of what you are referring to. I am asking YOU a question about that statement YOU made (which was an oxymoron BTW).

How about you reply with something of substance this time?

Mike
 
Quote from Mike805:

Okay, lets try again without a condescending reply.

I've been here a while and have read most of what you are referring to. I am asking YOU a question about that statement YOU made (which was an oxymoron BTW).

How about you reply with something of substance this time?

Mike

OK

Quote from Cheese:

Didn't you know? Sorry pal but hidden criticism as this one was is one of the classic hallmarks identifying YOU as a loser.
:)
 
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