googled definition of marbles: a child's game resembles or is gambling; may precede it in real life production, old -- ceramic, thus important to keep polished, else they crack under pressure; amateurs will do this, instead of improving their game ...

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

Choice #3 sounds nice. If listen, market tells #pips: Max when. %acct? >W:L.

I don't get how 10 pips a day can make you rich?

demo — That's BS. IMHO, this thread expounds upon only one critical step of designing how one will make one's pretrade studies, that of generating new trade ideas. To do so, the thread-starter has carefully tread the water between establishing ...

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

A moving average, which most lagging indicators are based on, takes x number of candles and expects the chart to act proportionally, depending on which indicator is used. I'd rather pick my own candles to consider with the types of patterns noted, ...

People say systems don't work (only pure price action does)

demo — PA is truer to the chart, and thus easier to accept it's legitimate for many. As you say, indicators with >50% overall %win are just as fine. I've never enjoyed dividing the chart into variables that indicators then identify. It's ...

People say systems don't work (only pure price action does)

demo — Jenkins has a free 1/8ths 1'TF calculator, and zznbrm some indicators. This frames chart nicely to help apply Gann Fans, for instance.

The Element of Time in Trading

well, if I can say Anything... — How do you see "block orders" on the retail side of it? Where's the order book? Are saying giant, single-small-candle spikes may be considered block orders? And it sounds a little like central-bank ...

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

(cont'd) — (more rewrites) (post#1 dump) Extra stuff just confused me. Moved logr-midline range to options box. PATTERN -- Midline/logr works as a range up to twice a pattern; thus, the asymptotic X, almost-X, and circle (which can also be ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

From my recollection of trading them for the thin-volume volatility (losing horribly, stupidly keeping with it), the Monday through Friday of Thanksgiving Week rehashes the top-ten-%-gainers/losers of US stocks with a bias toward the most recent and ...

winter NY session volume

Nice. System hopping is great for learning, though. One to add may be to build your trade study knowledge from the ground up -- reading bars to drawing devices to reason-filtering indicators chart, on the technical chart study; and then the other ...

Trading is a losing game!!!

(cont'd) — (post#1 dump) image attention a. Ambient, source-dependent -- (rapid statistics)/movements/velocity image An example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

method complete — Okay, finished. Here's my first direct use of the 'balanced attention' method: 11122010 01092009 c. ambient, rapid -- fragments-count, shadow b. precision-focus -- correction, all space 1 The shadow is in the fantastically ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post#1 rewrite) Sorry, another one. This one makes logical sense all the way through, and its different sections are short and/or well-divided. As usual, the logic is subtle and, I hope, enough so it's easy to jump from one place to another. ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post#1) TOO MUCH!!!!!!! I'll keep psych at PTSD and chart study a blend of shapes use and psych; extras, only for extra TF's. 99.5% of the time, I use only the 1'TF. stress image PTSD etc.: 1 ALL RXN mimic/track 2 VS.RXN recoil/shock 3 VS.ACT ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — Congrats on trapping price reliably. You did it at the cost of needing too many indicators, a high W:L, inverse R:R, and spread = net profit. A lot of work left, I'd say.

the most secure 5 pip scalping system

(post#1 rewrite) Skimmed a book, ART OF THE TRADE, found after read this thread. How it and thread's book noted were organized were sensible to me, so I copied the audiotape series' titles on page 156 of ART OF THE TRADE and included some of them ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Wow, you demo'ed for 15 years?! I too started in the 90's (late) and lost over $70k. And, cheaper broke r, more trades -- Read that way, seven accounts lost. Overall, I've been too rash and careless, so I failed to catch onto any instances of the ...

How many real accounts have you blown before consistently making money in FX?

demo — function My guess is that you're trying to hit a longterm big run and it'll make up for pips lost. Since forex (or at least the g/u) cycles through 50-100 pips fairly rapidly, a net loss is probable. Almost every one of those trades ...

Mechanical Trading

tired of chasing the HG... — "If I just had enough money to invest, I could tell the market where I wanted it to go." There's a couple of Rookie Discussion threads on this one.

Ridiculous Trading Myths

Finally! 10' in, it worked.... — (post #1 dump/record) You always trade the way you are _________________________________________________________________________ to make an environs within which a chart point may be found: decision grid (row, ...

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