swd - Trading Journal

Just some thoughts here and there. I don't post often, may reveal some stuff about what I'm doing/have done in the past when I feel inclined to release it.

For the purposes of this experiment, I use only mathematics and these are the key assumptions:-

1. I trade price and have no control over what this does (direction) or when it does it (time)

2. I trade volatility and have no control of how forceful this will be (sigma) or when it will occur (time)

3. Time is a given and factors into price and volatility in the sense that we have no control over when an event will happen (news is ignored), only after it happens, but we can plan to do something in the future at a specific point, if it is reached.

The things I have control over are size and spacing (distance). I apply size over a space I define and have planned for if it is reached. I do not know when it will be reached or if it is going to be reached, or possibly even if it is going to be surpassed by some way.

I assume that I do not know or care about direction and hence I do not use any indicators in this experiment.

All trades are conducted on an ordinary CFD account, no spreadbet, no multiple accounts. Hedging is used on single instrument to lock in at points of synchronisation, but not all of the time.

Turns out I can't talk about the above even in the abstract due to signing something a while ago that covers some elements of it. Ah well. On a side note, look at the price action in EURUSD today. I see this all the time. Seems to be going nowhere but an ideal opportunity for "the market" to bleed those important moving averages higher so they can be hit much more easily by certain peeps. So what you think, well, there are some good algos (and traders) sitting on those MA's just waiting to pop orders into the market. Will the market run through them again and wrong foot participants? I'll be watching out.

Will write on my own thread since Im blocked on some others. Never could keep my trap shut. Ah well, so what I say. Same old patterns in Gold, go up up up and then watch for the rug pull later today hehe

People got to understand that the tail DOES NOT wag the dog. Price leads indicators not the other way around. Just sayin!

Just a quick word about people who "ignore" other people on a public forum. Man up, sort out the differenes and move on? Or just be a whiny bitch and block them. We don't all share the same opinion, that's life I'm afraid, it's what makes the world go around.

Gold drop to 2591.2 today. Just a hunch

Well didn't get the forecast, never mind. Seems open gaps aren't the fill priority anymore. Still, throwing tatter tots all day instead got me a decent wage today, and that's what matters! Interestingly couldn't give much of a sh!t which way it goes, it helps but it's not necessary

Shame that some threads have divisive, jealous characters lurking within. It was ever thus I suppose. One of the main reasons I keep out of the way and stick to posting the odd thought.

Gold maket has been going up since the middle of August, and when I say UP I mean straight up. I've never seen opportunity to make money like that before and that simple. BUT...still people lose money and the hard luck stories flow. The market and its many participants sure make for a SICK SICK place to hang out. Carry on.

Trading is quite a boring job, so for a bit of extra stimulus, started a 10K demo account, 4 trading days in, up 21%. Max lot size 0.02, instrument GOLD. Will try to flip the account in the next 2 weeks. I'll post progress to the echo chamber.

Still chugging along with the demo account on the side. Trading GOLD only, up 34% since Jan 29th, haven't traded every day as I am live trading as well, but so far so good. Attention is to flip it to 20K in the very near future. Then when 20K hit why not 40K?

Update. Arrived at 50% on demo. Am going to leave it there because demo doesn't pay the bills and its taking too much of my time. Just live trading from now on. Might put some stuff here if i can be bothered.

TBH, the best form of entertainment right now is the news section and specifically the commments section. I just can't stop laughing... here is a selection of comments...

I thought i fuck eurusd but the eurusd fuck us

fucking so close to tp took breakeven fuck this shit is not even trading anymore quit trading till this trump is gone guys please fuck this shit FUCK

This has ruined my wallet, now you say this decision

We can tell that there are a lot of insider traders in the market. The market pumpt before the news came

You son of a bitch, you never stop talking nonsense, you piece of shit president

Thank you for blowing my funded

just shut up for once you stupid bastard

I got stopped out wtf is going on

Fucking hell

Why this wasn't also posted in Metals mine?????

Thanks for everything my 2k account washout

Just blown my account ...

I just lost all my money

Trump is the devil

Fk u Trump

right before open this donut has something to say every f##king day.

Trading is hard these days

everything is closed except your shitty mouth

Someone take his phone away

US and Iran should form a team trading competition called Robbings Cup. Traders that benefit the most from market manipulation get enriched uranium material as a prize.

<End of news section comments. >

For anyone wondering, NO they are NOT my comments, NO I have NOT blown my account. That's a joke in itself!

I have come to the conclusion that on some threads, the level of English and of comprehension in general, is not good

Trading GOLD this year has been like trading GBPUSD during BREXIT, if you know what I mean