BTW, just looked up your location. Looks like a beautiful place!
Started with "Understanding Price Action" by Bob Volman. Very good book. I then bought "Trading Price Action Trends" by Al Brooks but found it...
That is what I did. Being from an engineering background I found I liked the idea of algotrading. But I could NEVER turn my account completely...
Years ago a friend of mine and I were contracting with a firm to write a lot of code for their system. After about a year they went out and hired...
Welcome rsimoni. I have also read Chan's books. They are very good. However, since I don't have MATLAB, I found it hard to translate to other...
Thanks for the thread an links. Really good stuff.
I completely disagree, but that is ok. Like I said, I think it is semantics.
What you describe is a subset of day trading called scalping. Not all day traders scalp. Some of us "swing" trade inside intraday. By that, I mean...
I think it is a semantics thing. If you trade a pattern, you obviously either buy or you short. The direction you take is because the pattern...
"most"? Exactly how did you come up with that? There is nothing new in your post. Of course we look for price direction. That is what trading is...
There were a lot of good responses to his question. He actually asked a specific question about a service he was looking at in the first post....
I will not take the other side of that bet. lol
I have no problem discussing my path and the realities of learning to trade. He can pm me and I will talk with him anytime. That goes for anyone...
Like I said in my reply to speedo, one has to know what kind of trader he is. Only he can do that. I am a price action daytrader. I would never...
#2 is spot on. First you have to determine what kind of trader you are. That took me a long time to figure out.
Yes I can. A lot of what I see here is negativity, not reality. He asks for a mentor and people say there is no one who will help is not reality,...
This is ET. You will have to get used to the negative.
Thanks for confirming that. That is what I thought.
Does qualifying as a pro with cme force you into pro fees in your own personal accounts with other brokers?
I think the point of the quoted article was that beginners often get over confident because they don't know what it really takes to obtain the skill.
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