Thanks for the laughs. That was good. :) I've distilled all the trading advice in the world down to: No Fear, No Greed , Precision, Patience....
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Check it out... 1/2 hour before close. I was short CTIC and had a buy limit at 10.38, it was trading around 10.55. Suddenly the price plummets and...
Great advice. I might add that Martin Pring's "Intro to Technical Analysis" is a good place to start.
Well, you can backtest but it won't be accurate. Or perhaps there are some methods that would allow it but what I'm saying is this: Say you're...
Sorry. I pulled the post to which you refer and put it over on the sma thread. ....I like the sign :) It is true that estimates can be used to...
All I know is that it is very difficult if not impossible to look at past moving averages or stochastics or MACD and know at what point of their...
********************************** You know I probably should not have spouted off on this topic because frankly I'm a little fuzzy on it...
**************************************************** OK, yes, point taken. You are evidently aware of all this and I don't mean to lecture, but...
You cannot backtest a moving average system. Moving averages are lagging indicators and the curves seen on past charts may not have looked that...
Yup. I have. Very addictive. **************************************************** The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a...
"Greed, has us taking trades outside our rules because we want money dammit and we want it now." I just wrote this two days ago. So what did I...
There are number of things that make us do stupid things while trading and nine times out of ten they cost us money. Fear, greed, addiction to...
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I just did what you describe twice with no problem. It's 2:00 eastern.
I believe that is true for limit orders only. I routinely place oca orders with sell stop and moc and have no problem. The one time I did have a...
Get your EGO out of the way and let yourself be "wrong" and then move on. On the path of profitable trading there are always stones. It makes no...
I trade stocks intraday because fear and greed show themselves more clearly and dramatically in "news" stocks and the momentum resulting is...
Dave, I'd love to find an all weather system. Frankly I don't think there is one for the indexes. Have you made money over the last year trading...
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