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  • #1,261
  • May 10, 2010 4:25am May 10, 2010 4:25am
some cool blogs n shit

http://www.abnormalreturns.com/

http://www.fattail.org/

http://davesbrain.blogs.com/mindmoneymarkets/

http://tradingwithmatlab.blogspot.com/

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  • #1,262
  • May 11, 2010 7:33pm May 11, 2010 7:33pm
I'm only 39 and totally relate to the running out of time, haven't had time to barely check the chart let alone trade since 22nd Jan 2010 The months just fly by so fast aswell.

1 hour per day with a vague target of 50pips would do me, New York open, but no chance any time soon, I've got 5 systems on the go for the same client all of them hugely complicated


But been checking and formulating the S10 plan so I'm ready for when it all slows down ( Demo for a bit ), account should also be much healthier which will really help.

take it easy Fool!!
Nothing to it, but to do it!!! Stick to the plan FOOL!!!!
  • #1,263
  • May 12, 2010 2:19am May 12, 2010 2:19am
Quoting Turveyd
But been checking and formulating the S10 plan so I'm ready for when it all slows down ( Demo for a bit ), account should also be much healthier which will really help.

take it easy Fool!!
Hey Turveyd,

Trading from a larger base will make things more interesting. I am still manually scalping E/U on S10/M1. I really want to get into automated trading and I think the first thing I will try to do is automate the momentum scalps that work well for me manually. Seems so simple conceptually but I bet it will turn out to be not so very. Devil in the details, as always.

Anyway I will be out of work again by the end of June it seems. Then it will be back to the round-the-clock pip harvest. Don't know if I will be blabbing much about it here - but best of luck to you when you get back in the game.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,264
  • May 12, 2010 2:21pm May 12, 2010 2:21pm
Quoting The Fool
Hey Turveyd,

Trading from a larger base will make things more interesting. I am still manually scalping E/U on S10/M1. I really want to get into automated trading and I think the first thing I will try to do is automate the momentum scalps that work well for me manually. Seems so simple conceptually but I bet it will turn out to be not so very. Devil in the details, as always.

Anyway I will be out of work again by the end of June it seems. Then it will be back to the round-the-clock pip harvest. Don't know if I will be blabbing much about it...

Yo dude, S10/M1 is still my plan to. just been contacted ( likely because of my post ) to work on a EA so I'll take a look at that, supposed to get good results but not a fan.

I haven't got any ability to do S10 based EA's really wouldn't like to code a M1 based momentum system, actually been there tried that hasn't got the accuracy entry or exit wise.

My work will run out to sooner or later so need Trading as backup Plan B for when this happens.
Nothing to it, but to do it!!! Stick to the plan FOOL!!!!
  • #1,265
  • May 14, 2010 8:35pm May 14, 2010 8:35pm
Howdy Fool

Thought about you today. Triming 2 houses on your home turf.


Rufus
Illegitimi non carborundum - Noli pati a scelestis opprimi.
  • #1,266
  • May 14, 2010 9:53pm May 14, 2010 9:53pm
hey Rufus,

pm'ing you.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,267
  • Edited May 20, 2010 1:22am May 19, 2010 10:33pm | Edited May 20, 2010 1:22am
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"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,268
  • Jun 20, 2010 5:36pm Jun 20, 2010 5:36pm
http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn30.1.html

"It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

~ John Steinbeck
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,269
  • Jun 21, 2010 12:47pm Jun 21, 2010 12:47pm
Some interesting stuff in that link.

Your Steinbeck quote reminds me of a friend I had during the internet stock boom and day trader "mania".

Very humble, generous, and kind guy....also arguably the most successful daytrader in our office at the early age of 25-26. With a chemical engineering degree from Notre Dame, he was one of those individuals that was good at so many things, obviously a first rate mind.

The quality that stands out though, he was humble. A true absence of ego, so rare in youth..especially successful youth. (He was probably worth close to half-million dollars when I met him). Mostly self-made, with a small amount of borrowed starter capital, he managed to hang onto it all and diversify and grow his net worth in other ways. I'm sure he is close to the $3-5 million mark these days, now in his mid-thirties.

I think it is quite possible to be very successful and "nice". I often think of him and hope to some day achieve that humility he had as a trader. An even greater accomplishment would be to have that humility as a person.
I'm still working on it.
  • #1,270
  • Jun 22, 2010 10:03am Jun 22, 2010 10:03am
How's the trading been TF?
  • #1,271
  • Jun 22, 2010 1:46pm Jun 22, 2010 1:46pm
Quoting sam0182
How's the trading been TF?
FX trading slow/steady, just a few hours a week to scalp. I have made money trading stocks (VG, VXX) in the last weeks. Otherwise eng work has picked up & I am in overtime mode on projects. I was in Kennewick a couple weeks ago but had to be in/out so no time to call - I will be back in July & hope to meet you then.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,272
  • Jun 22, 2010 2:48pm Jun 22, 2010 2:48pm
Quoting The Fool
FX trading slow/steady, just a few hours a week to scalp. I have made money trading stocks (VG, VXX) in the last weeks. Otherwise eng work has picked up & I am in overtime mode on projects. I was in Kennewick a couple weeks ago but had to be in/out so no time to call - I will be back in July & hope to meet you then.
Sounds good, keep me posted!
  • #1,273
  • Jun 22, 2010 8:43pm Jun 22, 2010 8:43pm
Quoting sam0182
Sounds good, keep me posted!

Kennewick Eh???

.My daughter goes to school in Walla Walla.
So I drive right near there once in a while. Small litrtle forex traders world.

Rufus
Illegitimi non carborundum - Noli pati a scelestis opprimi.
  • #1,274
  • Aug 19, 2010 5:19am Aug 19, 2010 5:19am
Quoting The Fool
So as the journal title implies, I am trying to hit a gross account increase of 4% per day, day in and day out. Check out my spreadsheet, which clearly shows that I will be a millionaire by this time next summer. Man that'll be sweet. I hit 4.2% today by the NY close so I will probably not trade again until around the FO/LO.

Yes, they say it can't be done. They will scoff. I will post my spreadsheet results from time to time and we'll see how it goes.
So are you a millionaire?
My signature is: "Classified".
  • #1,275
  • Aug 19, 2010 5:35am Aug 19, 2010 5:35am
Quoting yaed
So are you a millionaire?

Likely not, but I'd put money on he's made more money than anyone else on this entire site.

How goes fool ? starting to get back into trading here.
Nothing to it, but to do it!!! Stick to the plan FOOL!!!!
  • #1,276
  • Aug 19, 2010 5:38am Aug 19, 2010 5:38am
See the latest rally on g/u......thats what happen when you fool with the fool


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Quoting yaed
So are you a millionaire?
Annoying Precision
  • #1,277
  • Aug 19, 2010 5:39am Aug 19, 2010 5:39am
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  • #1,278
  • Aug 19, 2010 11:20am Aug 19, 2010 11:20am
Quoting Turveyd
Likely not, but I'd put money on he's made more money than anyone else on this entire site.

How goes fool ? starting to get back into trading here.
Hello boys. I am doing well. I only started trading again more or less daily around the first of this month. I had rifled all but one spot account over the Spring - I had a need for cash flow and also, the only way I could stop trading compulsively (i.e., like 6+ hrs/day) was to not have any real money on the line. I had tons of engineering work to get done and trading was just getting in the way.

So now I have gotten the dayjob workflow under control and I can afford a couple or three hours a day to trade. I am pushing money back into a futures account this week.

I still want to take on investors' money to trade but that fantasy keeps getting deferred. Have half-assedly been studying for the Series 3/34 tests. Waiting to see what the CFTC puts out for new set of regulations on forex leverage, CTA registration requirements, etc & on the fence until they do.

Otherwise, I am still pretty much trading the same - scalping in at high leverage with an eye on the larger-term trend or probable breakout direction. Still works - I am looking at about +25% so far this week. But still laborious so I just am on the FO mostly, about 0630-1000 GMT, usually not that late past 0830 or so unless there's news. And the Tokyo open has been very worthwhile lately. I will take quick winners at stalls until I have a few % banked (if I am lucky) and then I start concentrating on letting something run from a sl @ BE or better. This would work for me better if I could catch the London/NY overlap, but at 5AM there's just no way I can make it if I am putting in hours on the day job. If I ever take the plunge and become a full time trader obviously I wouldn't want to miss that.

Well I hope ya'll are doing well. Good luck to you TurveyD I hope you have managed to scratch up a nice stake to trade. Trade large to trade larger, that's my motto.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,279
  • Aug 19, 2010 11:23am Aug 19, 2010 11:23am
Quoting erikte279
See the latest rally on g/u......thats what happen when you fool with the fool

I wisht I'd been on that cable for the news trade last night - the setup was pretty easy to spot. 100 pip spike, mmm mmm mmm.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,280
  • Aug 19, 2010 11:45am Aug 19, 2010 11:45am
Good to hear your getting back into the swing of things. I kind of took a page from your book in regards to scalping. Now I'm focusing on a reasonably small sl trading in conjunction with the smaller trend. As you said the most difficult part isnt the setups but maintaining your discipline .

Quoting The Fool
I wisht I'd been on that cable for the news trade last night - the setup was pretty easy to spot. 100 pip spike, mmm mmm mmm.
Annoying Precision
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