Definitely. FOMC can give some wild swings but there was an orderly reversal last one I remembered...the esignal data service crapped out......
Wow, none of my stuff would have worked. All implied volatility band levels were blown to ashes. Don't fight the trend. If you touch "it"...
Sorry, I read the Chinese translations. I like reading about a few speculators at their golden age and appreciate their wider perspective in...
I was way too anxious with my entry by focusing too much on the lower time frame otherwise the last trade would have worked out. I try to...
Looks like I might have bailed too early on this one. Oh well, welcome to my pizzaria!
Short at 1257.25 stopped out at 1258.25. Done for the day.
I am not a good trend trader... not enough patience... too worried about drawdowns. Maybe next lifetime :(
Looks like it is trending. I am gonna have to wait a long time...
Buy at 1258 Sold at 1260. +2 I got in a little early... too anxious but it still worked out luckily. I would say any one trade is luck... I...
I am starting a "newbie" journal for 2006 because I found myself often closing the shop too early and also I don't want things to get "moldy". I...
I know this is old... it also helps to keep perspective that it is only 1 out of maybe 600 trades for the year.
I trade ES reversals intraday which means I can really screw myself up for fighting trend. I use TradeStation and click for trade analysis to...
I would not have opinion one way or another (I think the options volatility was back to normal). I found when I was long SPY (exited profitably)...
"Do the hard thing!" (It works more often than not.)
The chapters are also in PDF format here: http://www.trading-naked.com/Articles_and_Reprints.htm
Well... that is part of "You got to know what you are doing." "Accepting the risk" is more of the mental side of trading to me.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Jesse Livermore World's Greatest Stock Trader by Richard Smitten Market Wizards 1 & 2 & maybe Stock Market...
Got the idea from someone I respected to play the year end mark up, bought a bunch of SPY last week. Read Jesse Livermore's biography over the...
I also read a little bit of no pm thread although I don't trade his method (I used to trade a very similar setup but get out at the moving...
But that is like saying the CTO from my old company can code... :confused:
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