There is empirical evidence that simple trading rules can be pieced together to come up with a strategy that outperforms the returns of simple buy and hold strategies in the Equities Market as well as empirical evidence of Simple Candle patterns ...

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I am always entertained by intellectual masturbation... you are probably right... but I cannot resist.

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Beautifully written and eloquently stated.

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I would go for your second answer, irrationality and chaos are still observable and there is an underlying reason for it's existence. They can not be predicted but could be exploited. the code in my opinion has to do with understanding the structure ...

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from all your posts i see that you are and expert in patterns and formations, maybe ff posters should recognize each others strengths and weaknesses and use them to be more constructive.

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that actually is pretty peculiar i believe that if you rip apart my ideas and show them to be vacuous and cemented in faith and not reality, i would actually be very thankful

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I personally respect him a heck of a lot more now. It is irrelevant of how long he has been learning, the progress comes not in the $ yet but in the experience, once his abilities as well as mine are at the level we want them to be then it is a ...

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Yes!!! we are all in the same page i suppose now the problem is how to efficiently mitigate risk in a way that we do not fall pray to the law of large numbers and mathematical probability against us in either lucky streaks reinforcing bad trades, or ...

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yes we are in the same page, I simply do not care if i am buying or selling as long as it is in accordance to my analysis, ultimately FA is more of a theory while TA is how this is developing. However I find it useful to marry the two in order to ...

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Yes GEfx on the surface that seems to be the consensus which i do not agree with. FA is long term TA is short term in fact FA is what drives the orders transacted in TA they are not independent of each other. one CAUSES the other

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I Think for the Most part people here have come to a consensus of what is important in price movement and that seems to be (which i agree by the way) direction- influx of cash in volatility- fluctuations in price Direction is usually called trend, ...

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The financial Markets facilitate Trade and spread risk among market participants There is a fundamental difference between equities, debt instruments, Currencies, forwards/futures, and commodities... and this has to do with what the purpose and the ...

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exactly

The life of a trading system on Forex Factory

so what works for you pip mutt? I stated clear strategies and working on basic rudimentary risk models Cindyxxxx stated very clear ways to scale in and mitigate initial risk via position sizing GEfx stated very clear strategy to deal with certain ...

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Cindyxxxx as said before I thank you for your in put. I think you have me wrong. I really do not need to be shown how to trade nor am i looking for some one to help me and teach me. as you can discern from my posts, I understand most concepts about ...

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actually no pipmutt I do not need to be taught HOW to trade But ideas clearly stated and shared can be replicated, adopted, and dismissed if not useful you state ambiguous, obvious goals cut losses short, let profit run, the trend is your friend, if ...

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no problem bro, I do see the benefit of your advise, thanks. The stage when my ego was fragile and i HAD to be right, or I could not accept my short comings is gone. i truly appreciate your in put. It is concrete ideas like this that help

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glass half empty kind of guy lol yeah probably I am always looking to improve, I am never satisfied with my performance... i expect better always. i am not debilitated by risk, it is part of the game, i take risks every day. As I said before this ...

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exactly and sometimes when I catch a trend I am able to grow the account, or through market analysis i can find pretty good areas where price might turn but comes down to randomness at the end, for all my analysis and my intelligence it's always ...

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I guess the point is that I PERSONALLY am not happy with random like equity curve with draw downs that wipe out previous gains. I am looking for a better way to manage risk ....otherwise it's more like 100 trades ( + 60) 100 trades (-50) = +1000 ...

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