supremeChaos, Thanks for the voucher! And your visit. You'd be surprised how much such interest in an unfinished method means and how little it's done. And, good luck in pursuing your climbing dream. (I tried it below ground: A blast!)

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Drew these (the peach (255,141,121) lines) around noon est:

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Went to 100:1, per NFA rules. Compounding now 8% each 4%, approximately (at g/u 1.6382). Counting in pips now, like everyone else. Self-imposed margin call 10% of account, usually manual. 1445-1645est 10272009 , 14 pips. Not listing number of trades ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

An example of ordered meaning for each bar channel according to its position and size: To explain: The first picture shows the either side of the first ss pattern. The second picture shows either side of the second ss pattern, and the left side of ...

bar channels

This is embarrassing. I lost my account after nearly doubling it, once more; the difference is, I lost the most when my technicals were at their best! I think the problem was, I was emphasizing another rewrite of psychologicals, and, facing the ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Me too, plus high margin (only not 10:1 ! That's tough in stocks), all I've done since then. Remember KTEL? Skipped 2y after the big crash. Rm/mm, unfortunately, no; lost, mostly. A typical trader, only stuck with it when found technicals ...

What percentage profit per day IS possible?

weekend study — Holy cow! Just pissed somebody off. The person got over it, though. The way I see it, that person needed help in explaining their view, through my contrary opinions. The view was fairly major to the thread I happened to be at ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

This trade may still have validity to it, unsure, just traded my portion: image

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Agreed. Hope the author returns it. If not, will try and recall some of its highlights: 1. not stupid -- Think. 2. not lazy -- Work. 3. not unstable -- Be cool. 4. abusive -- Don't gamble. 5. unlucky -- Prepare. Also talked of "Coffee for Closers", ...

Is trading FX for living a myth?

stupid .. lazy .. unstable .. abusive .. unlucky (paraphrased from a now-deleted post on this page; author adjusted, then reposted it) -- Just read the above advice list to rookies. It's on the harsh side, which distinguished it from a lot of bland, ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

a momo-line view of patterns: image After settle (see pic), switched to connecting highest-spread bars and putting short horizontal lines at base and top of them, while still connecting with a line the bodies of the tiniest doji/single-pip bars ...

EUR/USD patterns

Psychology is one's edge. Technicals are just for fun.

Discipline, Mental Skills and the Psychology of Trading

Also revised journal entries. Have a graph version, with ordinary-language translation of own psych model (not worth showing); should be understandable, once show and explain a little. It's antiseptic of anything personal, only relating intangibles ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

What the f_? . This pattern RULED. ----- (revision) contrast pattern + logr trace: longterm news interrupt + patterned-with spread TL patterns: intraday or logr TL'ing Okay, enough obscurity. Was just trading above, and a small-spread pattern, which ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Fair enough. Done it, tho.

A Gem from Merlin

Following the advice this way may help. I'd try anything right now. On a small piece of paper: strategy ____(fill in the blanks) -- longterm indicator reading -- intraday indicator reading --gut instinct reading --entry range --exit range position ...

A Gem from Merlin

That was fun. Got my longterm, at least in sketch. It does feel right, this time. ----- Sunday open, after the fact: (from 1): image -------- Another, 431pmEST: image "Climbed the ladder" on this one -- the midlines on the right. Missed the ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(revision) Alright, I think I finally have THE idea of what higher TF's are to the 1'; that is, I know why charts work. Uh-huh, Yeah. Here it is. When there's high contrast of one spread pattern that points in one direction and the type of spread ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Thank you, well put. I must control myself...

A Gem from Merlin

One time, I made a stock trade in a moderately slow stock and I was sure a marketmaker took the other side of my shares purchase and rose the price. Other times, I've done so and the price never budged. The room for such adjusting is probably the ...

Simple question! NobuyersNosellers!!