Quote from oraclewizard77:
A while back a real money trade was made by someone using Jack's methods and it was profitable. However, if you then just look at the chart, and apply some TA rules, you could have made the exact same money.
So my suggestion is if you want to use his method, use a real time chart, annotate it. See where using the process would make you profitable, and try to replicate it yourself.
I think Jack says being always in the market is only for advanced traders anyway.
I could see in a range bound market if you had balls of steel, you could in fact stay always in and reverse to take profits on the swing levels. When the market is moving sideways and/or randomly and you don't have a clear setup, its better to stay out.
In a recent post elsewhere (today or yesterday) I commented on how to grow the mind to be able to always handle the forward movement of the market under all conditions.
I partner with the market as a parasite and have a defined total set of elements which are defined precisely in mathematical terms.
Over time I posted charts that contain each of the 56 elements and they are ID'ed in color, by name and/or mathematically. Since my mind is fully differentiated, it is true that I deal with my trading partnership as anyone would deal with partnering with a car to drive it. the driver is continually aware of what is going on and he continually drives safely and defensively.
Replicating what I do is done with a series of drills and then posting your results so that they can be improved by me in an itieratively refinement sort of way.
Annotating yields bands for the independent variable. End effects are defined by the regions inwhich the independent variable settles. Often a region is reached beore the end of a bar and, therefore, turns may be carved.
Expert trading is not a competition; all it is is a "taking". The offer is there and it is simply "taken".
As is being seen, it is difficult for me to have a record here, since my orientation is probailistic whereby I operate in a region of "certainty". Obviously my record has to be deltede since it interrupts the beginner level of conversation of ET and its moderation limitations.
Why would a moderator delete a characterization of my contribution as "a steaming pile of shit" coming from an ignorant person?
Building the mind doing drills is a tough decision to make.