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triphop replied Aug 11, 2011Use your noggin, leave the internet and you'll find out that it's higher than 90%.
Where is the EDGE in trading? The most important thing in trading!
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triphop replied Aug 11, 2011In a healthy economy, printing money will almost certainly increase inflation. It's only when the economy breaks down that velocity slows, and deflation becomes a risk - printing money in this case prevents deflation. Still, if you print too much, ...
US Debt Ceiling Crisis Thread
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triphop replied Aug 8, 2011Edges. Take for example the Razzle effect. Not many people knew about the Razzle effect when it was first mentioned - i believe Craig was the first one to spot it. But a few years later, the Razzle effect is still in operation despite it being right ...
Where is the EDGE in trading? The most important thing in trading!
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triphop replied Jul 27, 2011Lots of people engaging the 'you're thick, I am considerably cleverer than you' line of debate. Which is fine, but let's not forget - intelligence and trading ability are loosely if at all correlated. While being able to tie your own shoelaces ...
Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise
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triphop replied Jul 20, 2011Do all systems with an inverse and very large risk : reward win most of the time? Yes Do they blow up spectacularly? Eventually, yes.
Winning TP / SL ratio
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triphop replied Jul 19, 2011Hmm - you can have a healthy profit but a very short life span. The month end review comes back down to honesty Frank - did you have to gamble like a rodeo cowboy to earn those returns? How many times did you double down? Really? REALLY?
The Importance of Being Honest with Yourself
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triphop replied Jul 17, 2011100m, your next job should be 10 minutes in Excel proving it one way or the other. As for profitability - know the market you're trading. Intimately.
Let's take trading seriously
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triphop replied Jul 15, 2011Didn't KLF once design a huge bass gun designed to knock down cows, or am I imagining that? Classic 80s... Obsession video
What kind of music you hear while you trade?
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triphop replied Jul 13, 2011He looks super pleased with himself. Awesome find.
What kind of music you hear while you trade?
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triphop replied Jul 12, 2011TFs don't all have the same characteristics. For eg the 1m timeframes, across all majors, are much more likely to regress to the mean than the 1hr timeframes. Not to mention the different volatilities across different times of day. Scalping = spread ...
Let's take trading seriously
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triphop replied Jul 8, 2011Random, great find that. The bit at the end - how people tackle a problem depending on how it's described (crime as a beast or virus) is also cracking. Gotta dash. Just seen 2 magpies.
Superstitious and Impulsive?
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triphop replied Jul 6, 2011Your instinct serves you well. It's approximately 80% losing, 15% breakeven, 5% winning. And yes, the stats are gamed at most brokerages. Probably not a conversation to get deep into, given the sponsorship of FF is by brokers, but it always pays to ...
95% losers - Fact or Fiction?
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triphop replied Jul 5, 2011Ah, works like a dream. It gets mixed up with saturday and sundays in the future, but no biggy once you put those in. Sweet, thanks again
Daily Boxes/Lines indicator
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triphop replied Jul 5, 2011Nice work as ever... — David, I may be missing something, but can you plot vertical lines far into the future? Say I want a line at a set time for several days ahead, is this possible? I can only get one line ahead of current price. Thanks for ...
Daily Boxes/Lines indicator
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triphop replied Jun 30, 2011I've seen more radical lettuces than this drivel. Get rid of the politicians and corporations that provide the very freedoms that allow you to rail against them.... right. As for the elite vs the masses. Sweet conceit but it's just that. Everyone ...
Thinking Outside the Box!?!
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triphop replied Jun 30, 2011And the thinking out the box message in all this? Once you start to form a view, it's really hard to shake it off because you invest your ego into it, and changing your mind becomes exponentially harder. It's a human trait, so I won't pretend I'm ...
Thinking Outside the Box!?!
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triphop replied Jun 29, 2011Eh Tdion, welcome back from the wilderness. Good to see the cynicism is still ramped up to 10 though your conclusions are bat crazy if you don't mind me saying. I don't get this mysterious abstraction of the market. It's made up of people making ...
The market never cared about your moving average or candlestick analysis
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triphop replied Jun 29, 2011Hoping the vote won't fail. I'd quite like the global economy to hang together if it's all the same

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset
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triphop replied Jun 29, 20111 year... — The one thing that really jumped out from that thread - you were trading just 1 year before you figured this out? 1 YEAR?! Hats off, that takes some doing.
Order Flow - Achieving the mindset