Yeah, that was a great scene in KING KONG running from the dinosaurs in the ravine: High casualty rate. It kind of makes the point, though, that survival by one's wits (reason for a trade) is premier, especially if, in the case you gave, there is no ...

are you trading for a living?

My mm was a mess. I changed it to this after reading a recent thread on the subject: set SL to #lots to average TP. Then, regardless of the current TP, set SL to the nearest chart indicator / device and reduce or increase the #lots proportionally. ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post#1, new version) -- I realize the formula description is all over the place. The only portion I usually look at is the table to the right of the '='. method skill order warming up / attune to using logr and midline to make TL's, i.e., detail ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

this thread is for overviews AND for parallel lines — Okay, here's an overview, or rather a statement on how one may produce better TL's. (I've observed this feature in lots of the more experienced ff traders' TL's.) image image image ...

bar channels

Dude! There's a lot of positives to your life. You're good at budgeting and have almost no debt you have to pay off; you have your youth, and you don't practice the two greatest self-inflicted killers (smoking (?), overeating); and, you know how to ...

Venture Capital?

It was only after a post I did this morning, that I realized the connection between logarithmic curves and midlines: They're a range. Thus, my 'build-a-shape prt' expresses this range: The central purpose of the build-a-shape prt is to leverage the ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Thanks for finding this post. I was breaking in use of these two ideas with a 13 sma, and found some possibly useful variants. The first one (in green) seems designed to capture turning, downward momentum at the second low. What happens, though, is ...

TASC June 2010 'Forex Gambit'

{each paragraph} Yeah, perfectionism is still a difficulty for me. Excellent statement. I've learned and live by this. Kind of redefined the term 'trendline', for me. Okay, here we go. I simulator-trade the 1'TF ONLY. Thus, I have a completely ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

Price action is first, always. A TL is merely an extension of price action. It's easy to get caught up in one TL or another being valuable, and at the same time difficult to sort through TL's to figure which ones are worth something and which ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

(new discretionary system) core method mm Closely relates chart study to attitude. "Cut losers short and let winners run" is mm, a conflict game : " 1/ conflict (antagonistic) games, in which somebody's win implies somebody else's simultaneous loss; ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post#1 dump) core method What finally got me to "Cut losers short and let winners run" : here's a quote from a site I wandered through while trying to figure a complicated ff post today: " 1/ conflict (antagonistic) games, in which somebody's win ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

It's how close your brain gets to what the chart tells you.

Holy Grail Exposed - Rookies dont have to search its all here!

this thread is for overviews AND for parallel lines — patterns, two: rectangle forms diagonal parallel lines: opposing (-angle) smashed (copy) of entire bigs (immediately before and after pt line) 50% copies parallel to TL endless lines going ...

bar channels

If a market is of enough volume 24h / 5 1/2 d, there's so much TA to be had that one can get away with little to no FA. Sometimes I miss FA from stocks -- Then the feeling goes away.

Is technical analysis sufficient ?

-- Free-ranging intuition amongst several devices, then. In other words, there's lots of trading strategies, including -- Gut feeling that's well-informed with TA/FA; free-ranging intuition amongst several devices; strictly dividing the chart ...

Trading is an Art

Satisfaction may be all I get from trading. I believe my current prt, the pattern decision grid on the first post, is about all I can do. And yet, it's not tensegral enough. It's so piecemeal on the chart, even though the different choices fit ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

I'm not a pro, just on demo and've lost alot. Also, I've not a set method yet, and have almost no experience in placing stops. However, I've read a lot of, and, over lots of years, have placed a few, stops, enough so I feel confident in using them ...

Question on placement of stops

demo — Simulator trade at top speed for perhaps two more months. That extra 500 trades'll go fast. And congrats on your trading.

How many demo trades before a system is considered viable?

" Leverage 1:1000 " Likely a bridge, too.

Best ECN

demo — Nobody pays attention to TA, TA pays attention to the chart. There's an infinite number of TA styles. Perhaps and only on occasion, a bunch of them may go to about the same place on occasion or some *?%$ hot-shot analyst is listened to. ...

Support/Resistance trading questions