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Quote from Ol' Yella:

I also think it's funny when people frame themselves as profitable traders.

Like when people will say something like "I've been trading full-time for two years" and neglect to admit they've lost money during that time.

But you never know. Some of them might actually be profitable.

I just get annoyed when I follow someone for a while in the hope of learning something useful from them but then discover they have been lying about some things, or lying by omission.

Handle123 was worth following.I had a set of conversation with this fine gentelman in the past,and he was for real.I`m sure,there are a handful of others down here,but a handful...
 
Quote from Ol' Yella:

I just get annoyed when I follow someone for a while in the hope of learning something useful from them but then discover they have been lying about some things, or lying by omission.

Or when you try to talk to someone but whatever they say is so obscure and ambiguous that you can't learn anything from them.

That's actually a sign of a scammer/charlatan.

By making everything confusing, the "targets" will think the person they are talking to is really smart and they themselves are just not yet at a level to understand it, and feel the need to buy more courses/programs from them. In other words, some people mistake that as a sign of high level mastery when in fact it is the opposite.
 
Quote from 1a2b3cppp:

Or when you try to talk to someone but whatever they say is so obscure and ambiguous that you can't learn anything from them.

That's actually a sign of a scammer/charlatan.

By making everything confusing, the "targets" will think the person they are talking to is really smart and they themselves are just not yet at a level to understand it, and feel the need to buy more courses/programs from them. In other words, some people mistake that as a sign of high level mastery when in fact it is the opposite.
well let me tell it to ya as clear as I can make it. A lot of us are sitting on close to 100% profits. That's pretty good. The days of greed and glory are over. We are what you call "Cautiously Optimisitc".

We are not looking for a bottom, but are worried about a top.

So that is who you are trading against.

You drive it up and we will be more than happy to hang on.
 
Quote from oldtime:

well let me tell it to ya as clear as I can make it. A lot of us are sitting on close to 100% profits. That's pretty good. The days of greed and glory are over. We are what you call "Cautiously Optimisitc".

We are not looking for a bottom, but are worried about a top.

So that is who you are trading against.

You drive it up and we will be more than happy to hang on.

I wasn't referring to you :)

I know some people like to use trailling stops in the situation you describe, but of course then the qusetion becomes how much do you trail it by.
 
Quote from 1a2b3cppp:

I wasn't referring to you :)

I know some people like to use trailling stops in the situation you describe, but of course then the qusetion becomes how much do you trail it by.
actually no. My best system is nothing more than classical trading. Put it on with a fixed stop. But the drawdown can make you feel like you are losing your mind. Even though it is my best performer.

I made one simple change, and that is changing the fixed stops to trailing stops. And it never ever made money again.

I hear people talk about trailing stops, and I just listen.

Maybe for you, but they have never worked for me.

But wouldn't it be nice if they did?
 
I often use a trailing stop to add to a big loser. Especially if it is my last installment. I want to know it can trade in my direction before I commit any more money to it.
 
Quote from jack hershey:

For me, the cases of adjacent price bars gate or kill measures in volume bars.

When volume bars are measured there are 8 cases plus the End Effect. I place the categories of End Effects in ranges. and they are comprised of 9 categories plus two singularities each of which have a specific rule. The total number of possible End Effects is 35.
I believe I understand the above first paragraph. Would you expand on the second paragraph? On top of 10 cases in adjacent price bars, you have 8 cases for adjacent volume bars too? :eek: Usually you refer End Effect to trend. Do you have End Effect to volume bars?
 
Quote from Paddler:

I believe I understand the above first paragraph.


Good. Use this to build upon.

Trading "reduces" to the two cases where adjacent bars are in translation.


Would you expand on the second paragraph?
I will be careful on this. The price is suspended in its space; there fore two ends of each bar are involved. Volume is anchored on a horizontal line where the volume value is zero.

Thus we have two RDBMS's.

What an opportunity to get a job done. The process is called "adding degrees of freedom"


On top of 10 cases in adjacent price bars, you have 8 cases for adjacent volume bars too? :eek:

Yes, I am saying what you typed. And there is one more set of cases in volume. I hope you noticed I said that as well.

The way I write is a very explice and precise manner from the linguisitics point of view. This means I convey a lot of sunstantive content in a relatively small expenditure of words.


Usually you refer End Effect to trend.

End Effects always occur on a bar. When I am discussing iterative refinement of trading. At one point I introduce making an additional two ticks at the end of one trade and making an additional two ticks on the beginning of the next trade. for 15 trades in a day this is 15 additional points.

Do you have End Effect to volume bars?

Yes. I name each. I have 35 names. Here is a name: PP1.
 
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