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  • #1
  • First Post: Edited 8:50am Sep 15, 2010 2:25am | Edited 8:50am
Let's not turn this into a review thread. I just thought it would be interesting to see the purchases of fellow traders. So, if so inclined, please list some stuff you've purchased, without hinting of efficiency or worth, over your journey.

Purchases only, please. Trading specific products, e.g., how to trade books, signal service, EA's, private forums... etc. Again, no hints of review or commentary... just the list.


Here's mine in no particular order:

Technical Analysis Plain and Simple 0137042019
High Profit Candlestick Patterns 0977375706
Trading Chaos 0471119296
Bollinger on Bollinger Bands 0071373683
Smarter Trading: Improving Performance in Changing Markets 0070340021
Pipware.com: MT4 dashboard
Online Trading Academy (Irvine, CA): 7 trading CDs
FXAdvice: Signal service
Nial Fuller: Price Action Tutorial
(*Herman Miller Mirra Chair)
Pipboxer EA (totally forgot about this one)
  • #2
  • Sep 15, 2010 7:53am Sep 15, 2010 7:53am
A comfortable chair with back support
  • #3
  • Sep 15, 2010 7:59am Sep 15, 2010 7:59am
hey slack..... my trading goes back quite a few christmas's..... somewhere along the way people started sending me trading related presents.... so my list is fairly long......

david dreman's "Contrarian Investment Strategy's" is and likely always will be my favorite.....

youtube and webinars have become quite handy..... with the help of the 'youtube downloader' you can download/save or convert many of those then burn them to various formats......

i have everything raghee horner produces burned to cd's..... listen to them while on the road and try to envision her charts in my mind..... makes for worthwhile practice...... as billy ray says, i know the words by heart.......


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and don't forget, be sure to send a note out to all....... no sweaters or socks needed, just send me some trading books for christmas......h
to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
  • #4
  • Sep 15, 2010 8:15am Sep 15, 2010 8:15am
Quoting thesnacker
A comfortable chair with back support

At first I thought you might be joking, but I have to admit, my chair was one of, if not, the most important, and expensive, purchase.
  • #5
  • Sep 15, 2010 8:17am Sep 15, 2010 8:17am
Quoting hayseed
hey slack..... my trading goes back quite a few christmas's..... somewhere along the way people started sending me trading related presents.... so my list is fairly long......

david dreman's "Contrarian Investment Strategy's" is and likely always will be my favorite.....

youtube and webinars have become quite handy..... with the help of the 'youtube downloader' you can download/save or convert many of those then burn them to various formats......

i have everything raghee horner produces burned to cd's..... listen to them while on...
Thank you, Mr. Hayseed.
  • #6
  • Sep 15, 2010 8:18am Sep 15, 2010 8:18am
I am sure there is another book somewhere that I got cheap but don't care to go hunting for it just for a list... but the others i can see right now are :

The Art Of Trading - Tate
Adaptive Analysis For Australian Stocks - Radge
The Zurich Axioms - Max Gunther
Congratulations ScalaFX for coming out of the closet!
  • #7
  • Sep 15, 2010 8:20am Sep 15, 2010 8:20am
Right-on... thanks nubcake!
  • #8
  • Sep 15, 2010 10:23am Sep 15, 2010 10:23am
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell.
A six zone, mechanical clock.
Taleb's books.
The Master Swing Trader, by Alan Farley
Probability DeMystified, Bluman
  • #9
  • Sep 15, 2010 10:30am Sep 15, 2010 10:30am
Quoting billflet
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell.
A six zone, mechanical clock.
Taleb's books.
The Master Swing Trader, by Alan Farley
Probability DeMystified, Bluman
Thank you, Sir.

What is a six zone mech clock?
  • #10
  • Sep 15, 2010 10:42am Sep 15, 2010 10:42am
I've got to write me a trading book

I'm starting to realize, every trader reads trading books!

I've never in my life read a trading/investment publication.

Got to hit Borders this weekend.
  • #11
  • Sep 15, 2010 10:58am Sep 15, 2010 10:58am
an acoustic guitar
Time hides Nothing
  • #12
  • Sep 15, 2010 11:02am Sep 15, 2010 11:02am
Quoting CindyXXXX
an acoustic guitar
Brand please?
  • #13
  • Sep 15, 2010 11:08am Sep 15, 2010 11:08am

  1. a pen and a ruler (in the early days, printing out a chart and doing 'it' by hand helped me see a few things that were 'hidden' on a PC screen)
  2. Brain Rules by John Medina
  3. a not-so-cheap USB flash drive for back-up copies of the essentials (everything from charts & pdfs to bookmarks)

If you don't risk, you don't ever have to lose.
  • #14
  • Sep 15, 2010 11:38am Sep 15, 2010 11:38am
A computer, an oversized screen monitor, a portable hard drive, an office desk, an ergonomic (supposedly) office chair, a filing cabinet, a calculator, a protractor, a ruler

I will post more when I think of more...
Make your losses in demo. Earn your profits live.
  • #15
  • Sep 15, 2010 11:54am Sep 15, 2010 11:54am
Quoting Slack
Brand please?
I dont even know man it was the cheapest one in the store but it still sounds sweet - just something to bash on to help with the boredom - went to get my electric fixed and it was just an impulse buy

Um... Its that logo with the back the front S's sorta like: SZ (but the Z's an "S") ho hum
Time hides Nothing
  • #16
  • Sep 15, 2010 11:55am Sep 15, 2010 11:55am
Quoting bug

  1. a pen and a ruler (in the early days, printing out a chart and doing 'it' by hand helped me see a few things that were 'hidden' on a PC screen)

Thats so cool - Wish it was still like that - You must think we're a bunch of spoilt brats!
Time hides Nothing
  • #17
  • Sep 15, 2010 12:35pm Sep 15, 2010 12:35pm
Quoting CindyXXXX
Thats so cool - Wish it was still like that - You must think we're a bunch of spoilt brats!
By early days, I meant my early days. You seem to have gotten it wrong, I'm not that old...... I'm a spoiled brat just like you but last summer (which I consider my early days given my place on the learning curve during that time) I printed out a bunch of charts because I had to share my PC with 4 or 5 people. That meant less screen time so the only option was to print it out. Now I have a new PC but I still print out charts. It does wonders for me some times.
If you don't risk, you don't ever have to lose.
  • #18
  • Sep 15, 2010 1:05pm Sep 15, 2010 1:05pm
Got a new coffee maker, nothing fancy, $40 at Target, and a Krups grinder, to grind the beans, which also does a good job on flax seeds & such. Drinking insanely strong coffee right now.

Also, a Tyke quad-mount for monitors. And monitors - some nice 24" Samsungs but also cheap 2nd hand 20 inchers which you can find for $10 or less.

Books, too many, but they will resell well on ebay. Sucker born every minute, I have heard said....
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #19
  • Sep 15, 2010 10:00pm Sep 15, 2010 10:00pm
Quoting Slack
Thank you, Sir.

What is a six zone mech clock?
6 small non-digital clocks mounted in one piece of mahogany.
  • #20
  • Sep 15, 2010 10:48pm Sep 15, 2010 10:48pm
Quoting billflet
6 small non-digital clocks mounted in one piece of mahogany.
lol... I was thinking some MT4 indicator... I swear, I'm not blond!
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