hahaha I F*ing love this thread guys, truly a treasure, I notice when watching CNBC yesterday I already had a completely different mindset and almost felt like a different person while tuning in, instead of viewing myself as a student in a class room gathering useful information to trade on I instead felt like a mad scientist viewing the information as false experimental data fed into minds of the masses with the intention of studying the reaction and hypothesizing the interpretation of the ignorant test subjects. I have never so clearly seen the "obvious" (haha) fact that the market is not some medieval dragon with human kind rallying together to defeat it exchanging ideas and tactics to "beat the market", the F*ing market is everyone watching the the market! I have always has some internal conflict about how the market operates and how people view it as an external creature rather than a collection of individuals but never to clear. Please tell me I am not going totally insane and should be cashing out my trading account for a bunch of matress's and a straight jacket, you "crazy" people have certrainly got into my head but I kinda like it
As said before I'm a dumbass college kid who is trying to make a career in trading. I always realized I didn't know too much and had far to go to be profitable let alone support myslelf. I have made all the mistakes loosing much of my trading account in which I have all of my savings. After a huge loss in the spring I started dedicating myself to really learning this shit. Part of which is developing a trading plan with cold hard risk management rules which I understand (or thought so) is the "golden ticket". I learned that what a sucessfull trader must do is write a plan with a tested strategy with a given win/los ration and set up risk management parameters in that statistics will do the work aka " I have a strategy which works about 50% with a stop at 2% and a limit at 3% so I net 1 % SO SIMPLE!.
Now thanks to NYSE and you other crazy folks I yet again am finding myself questioning everything and find myself throwing my hands in the air saying F*ck it!
My question to you is this...
- What "good" will from my hoping eventual realization of the "obvious" meaning, is this a quest for a contextual realization when utilizing a trading strategy and if so how will it influence it? Or will it lead to a totally new system?
Let me re-phrase, will the "obvious" make technical analysis...
obsolete?
relevant as a school of thought but in a way not traditional thought?
relevant as specific techniques but with different ways of interpretation?
Basically, after my hopeful gain of "nirvana" am I still going to buy when the 20 and 50 ema crosses the 200 whith a neutral stochastic and a volume weighted macd trending up with strong ADX
Or is this all a waste of my time!? Please help my mind attain a GPS system to navigate back to my skull! haha
to clarify, my comments of NYSE and others are used in a joking & hopefully some what mutually understood manner. I have great respect for all here & the great minds you posses... If I really thought you were crazy what the hell would that make me following it haha, I'll choose not to answer

... I eagerly await your openly interpretable & "useless" response
Sarcasm aside,Great thanks...honestly