The Bucking Bronco

#55695 fti @Jupiter - You are very kind share your learnings.

What about my vested interest?
I'm not opening a blog.
I'm not going commercial.
I don't want to transform myself in a signal service.

Posted in 2016 on TAF

fti,
I have been studying (and practising...) the precious lessons of this thread for years
without saying a proper Thank You to you and all the other contributors....
and for that, I am very sorry.
When I read your pages for the first time... it was like: Oh, so I can do that?
An amazing effect on how I saw the Market...
You opened the door of the room... showing to everybody that there is another room... and that we can enter there!
I followed your suggestions, did my researches and readings... trying to fill in the colours in the sketch you gave us...
Slowly but surely, I progressed in comprehension, performance and consistency.
Thank you, Sir.
Yes: Priceless guide and reference.

PS. And thank you also for the wonderful music that I discovered under your suggestion and guide.

Banked.
No doubts about me... as I said.
I have troubles only with the human beings.

Learnt that by fti on TAF.

Yes, I'm mad.

I'm re-reading my posts of yesterday.
Honestly. #58301 e #58310 TAF are perfect.
I'm thinking to copy them here.

In the meanwhile we could take again and again this beautiful Sun Tzu pill of wisdom.

The Subject, in the complete paragraph, is "A Clever Fighter":
"He wins his battles by making no mistakes.
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory,
for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated."

It's difficult to understand?

Thanks for dropping nuggets along the way, they do help me to understand fti a little more than I first read that thread.

Would appreciate that you can give more light to this statement -
TIA

will start this slow journey of learning - TECHNICAL ANALYSIS MANUALS... but first learn to read plain English

What I mean is...
"when you see a too aggressive Stop Hunting."
At that point Trading becomes really impossibile.

In a public forum I can't (and don't want) to say more than this.

I really must be mad.
Probably the studying phases deposit sediments one on the top of the others...
and our knowledge grows and increses layer after layer.
But to me each of this sentences applied to Trading appear absolutely crystalline, diamantine.

16. The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline;
thus it is in his power to control success.

17. In respect of military method, we have,
firstly, Measurement;
secondly, Estimation of quantity;
thirdly, Calculation;
fourthly, Balancing of chances;
fifthly, Victory.

@ all the invisibles... Ciao. How are you?

Thanks. should be something more dramatic than triple busts

I use to call those manoeuvres... "Cleaning the blackboard".

It's a long, long story.
But if you, failinforex, can see and understand triple busted...
I must therefore infer that you already have a good level of preparation.

Hey, we are talking of serious Technical Analysis, here.

@ All (lurkers icluded)
Be sure of that - and this is the main fti's lesson - Old Classical Technical Analysis is not a Fallacy.
Yes, sad truth... they can not even read the title of their own thread.
And that it's not my fault or my temperament's fault.

I'm 65. Surely my way to see and think is different.
I'm not qualifying. I will not use adjectives.

But to express myself clearly... I think that Education and Preparation must tend towards the Excellence.
Then and only then... one could search and find his proper niche.

People here is searching for one pattern, one "sure" set-up to become rich!
Imagine what happens when they think they have found the remedy against their mistakes: "No more wrong Trades." Yeah!
Averaging and Hedging everywhere.
Trading doesn't work this way.

The discussion is open. I would like to read some comments.
It would be nice.

And then... when you are talking about these things... at that level...
a poor and lost soul writes to you this message.

all i see is an arrogant as*h*le who made it and think he is king,

you absolutely disgust me.

And no one has nothing to say. Poor fti, dear friend and my mentor, wherever you are now. Poor me.

The beauty of an encounter and a friendship, the Art of Mentorship, the pain and sufferance of the humbles, the impossibility to really know each other,
the Market reality, the beauty of the Music, the meaning of Being on Mission... The sense of Life.

Words have meaning.

Ah... What a morning we spend together fti, Alexandria and me listen to the sweet Tatyana. A nice Sunday Morning.

It was night for fti... and I offered him a double dose of Tatiana.
Immediately a poor, FF, lost soul unsuscribed from TAF. He wasn't there for the music, he yelled... oh yes, we know it!

there is no single pattern that´ll make one rich and no setup is sure. the only thing one has control of is when to enter the market based on probabilities of the past. the future is unknown, and trading is about making decisions under uncertainty. most members here use the term of hedging incorrect: hedging is being long OR short in one underlying and buying protection - NOT buying and selling the same financial instrument at the same time. anyone with a few semesters in economics knows this fact. unclean use of financial terms is very common here. like saying pips while trading indices instead of ticks/points. sad but true.

Nice contribution, d1.

The new European regolamentation oblige brokers to put in evidence the ammount of accounts unprofitable on the total administrated.
The sad reality of thing is that we face an average data of 80% of the trading accounts constantly in red.

Retailers don't know what they are doing.
They don't even know what they are talking about.
They don't know what they are saying, neither.
And they use the same term / word /expression with different meanings compared to the historical encoded content.
We go beyond what I use to call the "Babel's Tower of Trading", and we reach the apogeo, the top of the Absurdity,
when we accept that on a Trading Forum someone could write (as yesterday) that there is no connection between "word" and "meaning".
Language and Culture.
Knowledge, Perception and Analysis.
How language shapes our perception of reality...
Communication and Incommunicability...
Semiology and Semiotics.
A bit of History of Philosophy Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkley, Hume... Kant
Rationalism vs. Empiricism

Oh, yes.

But maybe (and with a big laughter of liberation) we could make all this mess much, much more simple and comprehensible.
This is my “Trading Encapsulated.”

I make all too complex?
Do you want a Summary?
Here it is.