rethought emotions -- causation ( relationship between the variables is non-spurious (there is not a third variable causing the effect), the temporal order is in line (cause before effect), and the study is longitudinal (2 repeated observations of ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

post#1, new: In a discretionary trading session, emotions play on gut interpretation of a chart. I use an event-norm approach to this gut-emotion cycle -- image image A person has an emotional makeup they usually carry around -- one standard ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Thanks for your interest. hold time Intraday trader (will go intraweek occasionally). 10-100 pips, prefer latter. When the volatility's right, have done a 175-pip trade. 1' TF. symbol: gbp/usd, or one pair or symbol at a time. Since my method is ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

rate -- developing the idea a bit more — Line rates tend to confuse me, I guess because they balance with each other like a seesaw and then go higher/lower. image The cup and handle that follows looks to balance seesaw-like with the series ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

The idea of "temporary patterns and multiple trendlines" must've got to me recently, because I've combined tension release and Gann Fans together:

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Flattered.

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

To me, it's backwards. 1'TF has more candles, so there's more to organize. The fly-by-nighters go for the 4hTF. The (what I term as a) mistake is due to the speed of change as the chart is first printed: Reaction time, if you will. Reaction time can ...

Time Frame Vs Personality, Which to choose as Main Time Frame? Who Are You?

Thanks for visiting. It's only my version of the market emotion cycle. I'm just trying to emphasize certain portions of the cycle to absorb and use it better. My trading psychology(/record) is abysmal, and the cycle is concrete and fairly ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

MC'ed the next account.... What's wrong. image

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

from here: url And, image -- I'll explain the former. You figure the latter. (erased the latter) expansion on the former: image ----- new post#1: patterns: dots or angles/lines/rays or complex* rate:random(candles), volatile (high-volatility ...

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THAT was dumb. Okay.... Charts. Compromise with a couple of short, opposing angles inside the main box. (Ignore all except this and the other boxes.) -- Yeah, the wedge patterns did fine, too. image image 3 image ---------- divergence, in the ...

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demo — Not a lot of help for you, likely. My point was: I don't see the point of determining an entry, if any entry can be made into a trade. That's a waste of your time. So, I made a list of other things for a trade that may be determined, in ...

When / Where to start looking for a trade setup

Yeah, sorry. I had to redo the post several times.

When / Where to start looking for a trade setup

demo — With temporary patterns and multiple TL's, it's easy for me to find discretionary trades anywhere also. So that's all I do, is trade the exit. As long as the number of pips a trade is moderate (10-100), I don't see any difference. For ...

When / Where to start looking for a trade setup

demo, myself — So you're spiralling down to depression. The trip's H___, the destination's great (according to the market emotion cycle): Realism sets in. One thing at least some PA traders understand is that "end of day" is an artificial ...

I still feel like a POS...

. chart'n'trade post...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

.Funny to look at, painful to go through.... image ----- Writing about 'to look at' -- That descriptive list of "ptm-enhanced trade"s in post 521 also looks like this: 1 a boat anchor 2 map of a riverway 3 both, a floating bob, and two landmarks ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

[somehow, erased a lot of writing. This is the poor substitute: ] last post#1 picture and method (w/o description): image example of an l.p. 4 that uses ellipses, in charts 1,2, and, in charts 3-6, of an l.p. 1, that is, a single method of drawing ...

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I was looking around for old shapes I'd missed, and turned up diamonds and compressions. The compressions, I couldn't figure -- I'll stick to my own versions -- and the diamonds I had to redo, as I don't completely understand them in my own terms or ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

How do you approach "price is compressed", in general?

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