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- Baifu replied May 26, 2010
Even more cryptic than Tunnel Through the Air

I suppose it is the privilege of the teacher to tease us dense logs sometimes 
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- Baifu replied May 26, 2010
怪蜮好多從外表來看玄门技巧 I am unfamiliar with the expression. Literally it says strange insect(s) perceive Taoist techniques from appearance (miss the essence). But I am not sure if strange insect is a specie of ancient mythological tale, or if what I think as ...
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- Baifu replied May 26, 2010
Post #1261 Feb 4 2008: About an issue brought forward by some. Time frame ----------- intraday vs short term vs long term positions In my mind there is no such things, if you refer my previous postings. There is however only daylight and overnight ...
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- Baifu replied May 26, 2010
Some excerpts from fti posts, post # included where I could, black note and underline is mine: #951 To improve skills, cut trading position to 20 units of position. Choose a trend attempt , then trade the 20 positions one at a time. Dance with the ...
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- Baifu replied May 25, 2010
Demo mode: Morning campaign squared, short E/U, 1260 troops, with wind from start, highest skew level 11 (89 troops) 76 pip drop from first entry to last exit, campaign harvested 761 pips and 2.7% to book. More aggressive in attack therefore ...
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- Baifu replied May 24, 2010
You got it, can't do business in China without guan xi 關系

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- Baifu replied May 24, 2010
5. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. 6. Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. 7. Hence the use of spies, ...
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- Baifu replied May 24, 2010
Demo mode: Morning campaign – 506 pips, 1.1% profit High pip low € due to downsized troop size: 1 troop = 4% equity, or equity*50 leverage = 1250 troops. This conservative MM is good for defence (gunpowder to skew to stay close to market) but ...
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- Baifu replied May 24, 2010
AOW Chapter 13: “4. Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge. 5. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; ……… “ Gann is ...
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- Baifu replied May 24, 2010
I think we are witnessing Sun Tze in action here. The first time the concubine armies erred Sun Tze said may be the instructions wasn’t clear and explained again, when they erred a second time, beheading! Earlier in the thread when someone erred fti ...
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- Baifu replied May 22, 2010
Hi Suma, welcome to the thread. I believe you used my chart as underlay for your notes. Be warned fti was displeased to see the cloud and clutter on the chart, you might be better served to re draw the entry-exits and notes on a naked chart. I ...
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- Baifu replied May 21, 2010
AOW — AOW Chapter 13: The Use of Spies 4. Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is FOREKNOWLEDGE. [That is, knowledge of the enemy's dispositions, ...
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- Baifu replied May 21, 2010
Spy from the EUR bull camp came back with 1.3% booty, he flee saying the bulls are in choppy water, never know when the second shoe (bear leg) is going to drop. But then no chart pattern can predict when CBs are going to intervene, rendering chart ...
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- Baifu replied May 21, 2010
Demo mode: Have been arbitrarily bear EUR (trade with daily trend) morning only and bull EUR afternoon (US morning) only for the last 3 days, to maximize opportunities to practice offensive / defensive, direct / indirect tactics when with or against ...
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- Baifu replied May 19, 2010
Mark, I guess you might say that. Whew
what an afternoon, rolling square log uphill 84 pips (first entry 1.22179, last exit 1.23022, I was bear EUR) to eek out 0.15% profit, suffered several Swiss bank spikes. Skew was low, capped at lvl 5. ...Technical Analysis Fallacy
- Baifu replied May 19, 2010
Jest, All the charts and blotters I posted are in the same demo acct set up to test my position sizing strategies. All you and others said about the problems of doing this with real money is very valid, and I am taking them all into consideration. ...
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- Baifu replied May 18, 2010
AOW chapter 5, energy: 10. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack - the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. 11. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in ...
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- Baifu replied May 18, 2010
Very good point
I remember you were quite a shooter at stages in your journey. For drills I need practice and feedback (the same reason Backtest and Walk Forward of intraday systems are more effective than End Of Day systems because the ...Technical Analysis Fallacy
- Baifu replied May 18, 2010
roll square log uphill — Stats of rolling square log uphill a bit better this morning - foreign capital about 50% of DD at the worse. First entry at 1.23564, last exit at 1.23778, 21 pips uphill. 700 troops, skew capped at level 9 (34 troops), ...
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