Got this trade; it's a case of laziness. Laziness and fooling oneself seem to be different sides of the same coin. image image the work involved: Proportion is always skewed and focus overly much, when prefer to follow a trendline over a shape, ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

mc'ed on a new idea again. Circle appears to be a perfect compactness (credit, this thread) of price exuberance. image (Here's the rest of it.) So what I did wrong, was read the direction right and the compactness/expansion wrong, so that price ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Nice idea. Your method reads like a confirmation of Bollinger Bands (15,4): image

Compression Project

demo — Had to wiki the phrase and trace meanings from it both within and similar, to figure what you meant: Logic orders impulse. There are more reasons for losses, though, than "gambling", and thus it is a challenge to protect those rules.

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

I'm catching on to the brand new approach, slowly. image image It's nice to have a method that doesn't yell "logr - midline" all the time. They're there, just in proportion with everything else. chart one, drawn-up shape inside GF on left and ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post#1 dump) arbitrary modification a discretionary charting practice preview*: image I draw the lower symbols (in blue, next) to form little kneejerk adjustments, which tend to fade in affect, to my overall trading cycle. time and effect: ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Fortunately, I've always traded the scribbled lines hidden in each of your chart's bars. I also realized your point a couple of months ago, and appreciate your thread for bringing this to others. I still want it easy or rock-solid defined, though; ...

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

Got carried away. Return to trading: 'wanted to move forward, a wall between me and the point of it (the chart study)' -- Even internalized this, through removing 'wall' of extra bars to left of first couple of hours, which is how LFH Simulator ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post#1) arbitrary modification a discretionary charting practice preview*: image I draw the lower symbols (in blue, next) to form little kneejerk adjustments, which tend to fade in effect, to my overall trading pattern. The latter is an ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

A preview each trade: Effect is too short, tho lasts slightly longer, sometimes, than the trade itself. Depends on how good the preview is, what situation I use to be the "current" one. This one was light and balanced. image image six mc's in a ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

You're right. The market is zero sum, period. I changed the post, so others know what you were talking about at the same time my post doesn't completely mislead anyone. Anyhow, it was interesting comparing 'distribution of outcomes' with zero sum. ...

No more BS - What have you learned?

While the concept indeed doesn't imply so, it's interesting how the latter affects the former's usefulness as a concept. I'd imagine zero sum came from the days when market makers directly matched one trader's position to another's or a few or part ...

No more BS - What have you learned?

I do a short psychological review now before every trade to keep my mind going, mostly recording how I stack up against the nearest psychological resistance and then bouncing off this to draw my chart study. From this, I skip pursuing a simulator ...

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Great list, thanks.

No more BS - What have you learned?

demo — Simulator is all I learn to trade my manual approach on; I go through hundreds of trades held an average of 1/4 day each. This has allowed me to rewrite my chart study into something I can stomach, so that I can concentrate on how I ...

Forex Simulators

I never consciously thought of own stuff in this perspective. Another way is to bring the candles closer together, so that you only read the larger patterns they create. You'd need candles that are contractable, though, such as here. A lower TF may ...

No more BS - What have you learned?

solution: Match ANY stop to its reason SET. Some stops need more. This is the way it's done everywhere. image image If confident enough, doesn't matter if put appropriate stop on; thus, must measure own reliability through gut feeling/instinct ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

here's a new one -- I thought it'd go up, then only a little, then thought I'd better go down to close and double the gap. What happened? I had some kind of synaptic jump that "forgot" this and mistakingly I averaged the weight of each idea and went ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — Enjoyed the post. A couple of issues such as compounding, when you say using the 1' or 1H is the same, or the lagging and imprecision combination of indicators and TF's respectively, bother me. These being minor, though, I'll try to ...

No more BS - What have you learned?

Stubborn -- Based on the above, and the fact that, in my brain, I consciously thought price may go up and then avoided the thought until it went into full, short consciousness after the trade, I yet again traded with one reason that had a big ...

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