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  • #2,601
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:04pm Aug 24, 2011 5:04pm
Geezus, swap is starting to get expensive. Hate Wednesday sometimes... lol.

Always seems like I'm on the negative side of it.
  • #2,602
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:05pm Aug 24, 2011 5:05pm
Surprised when i heard it but yee have a good team. Hoping United bags Schneider but looks like it may not happen. Hard to play the spanish teams without putting the boot in though. They're quick nice footballers but go down too easy in my opinion.

Be interesting to see if anything will happen Mourinho after poking his finger in the eye of the Barcelona assistant

Quoting cloggie
Don't know, kicked a few more Spaniards in the chest?


I was at the game and was embarrassed to wear orange.
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  • #2,603
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:07pm Aug 24, 2011 5:07pm
lol.. Yes, i am a smoker and can relate. Nothing like a cig and coffee boost. Can't wait for the day to trade fulltime myself and work to my own timeframe

Quoting sofia101
No brandy ) I am a smoker ,bad habit, but only one LOL I know what you mean by no time to trade ,when I worked full time, it was very hard ,and then I decided to quit and trade ,thats what I enjoy ) Now it 's better
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  • #2,604
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:16pm Aug 24, 2011 5:16pm
Quoting pipper
lol.. Yes, i am a smoker and can relate. Nothing like a cig and coffee boost. Can't wait for the day to trade fulltime myself and work to my own timeframe
I am too but I've been on e-cigarettes for the last 4 months. That and drinking lemonade. Like I said yesterday, I think I've been domesticated.lol
  • #2,605
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:21pm Aug 24, 2011 5:21pm
Was looking at the e-cigarettes previously online but never went ahead. Must be good if on them for last 4 months ?

Quoting attila
I am too but I've been on e-cigarettes for the last 4 months. That and drinking lemonade. Like I said yesterday, I think I've been domesticated.lol
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  • #2,606
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:22pm Aug 24, 2011 5:22pm
Quoting pipper
Was looking at the e-cigarettes previously online but never went ahead. Must be good if on them for last 4 months ?
It's not the same of course, you just get your nicotine fix. And you don't smell. I couldn't stand the smell...

Edit: Now they came up with better cartridges. I'll get them this week. I use greensmoke
  • #2,607
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:32pm Aug 24, 2011 5:32pm
I might take a look at them again. Getting the fix without the smoke is all good.

Quoting attila
It's not the same of course, you just get your nicotine fix. And you don't smell. I couldn't stand the smell...

Edit: Now they came up with better cartridges. I'll get them this week. I use greensmoke
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  • #2,608
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:35pm Aug 24, 2011 5:35pm
Quoting pipper
I might take a look at them again. Getting the fix without the smoke is all good.
I tried them and I still have them in a pinch ,when I run out of real ones ,but it's not the same
  • #2,609
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:36pm Aug 24, 2011 5:36pm
Quoting attila
I am too but I've been on e-cigarettes for the last 4 months. That and drinking lemonade. Like I said yesterday, I think I've been domesticated.lol
You are ,LOL
  • #2,610
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:37pm Aug 24, 2011 5:37pm
Quoting Venice
I aint skirred. Worst thing that will happen is that I am wrong. lol

But yes, prefer to sell @ around 8000 - 7994.

Will monitor to see if we slip on stops or not.

there is def a grip of stop orders on the other side of 8000-8040..

I prefer to be on the side of the attackers shooting to knock those stops out than the defenders. I have just the one spec posiition long at 7890 now... I need the 8000 to be broken and hold strongly as support before I start legging in my more meaningful longs...

the risk on this is outcome based on Hildrebrand and the SNB's commitment to a weaker CHF... also it is heavily reliant on what the US Fed decides to do about monetary policy(jackson Hole this friday will be huge)... any hint of further easing or an expansion of Bank credit will be massively USD bearish and we will most likely revisit the UCHF lows no matter what switzerland tries to do.... on top of that European issues have to be factored in, as long as they are in terror mode without a strong enough plan for Germany to save all their asses flows will continue to pour into the CHF. ... I got a whole list of things that need to happen to make it back to Parity

Keep in mind everyone this is a HIGHLY speculative position I am holding and many things need to come to fruition including a massive change in risk sentiment to make multi thousand pip moves happen...

Just so happens I like to do this kind of stuff
  • #2,611
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:37pm Aug 24, 2011 5:37pm
I tried the plastic ones but that didn't last long. The best thing i found when i gave them up for a month (lol) or so before was drinking water whenever i had an urge. At the end of it, i got sick of drinking so much water

Quoting sofia101
I tried them and I still have them in a pinch ,when I run out of real ones ,but it's not the same
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  • #2,612
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:39pm Aug 24, 2011 5:39pm
Quoting pipper
I tried the plastic ones but that didn't last long. The best thing i found when i gave them up for a month (lol) or so before was drinking water whenever i had an urge. At the end of it, i got sick of drinking so much water
I do drink water all the time ,LOL but it 's hot here ,I like the idea ,I may smoke less .
  • #2,613
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:40pm Aug 24, 2011 5:40pm
Gotta hit the sack here. 8Hr still working on a pattern for me... Might be a nice M.. Safe trading all
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  • #2,614
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:41pm Aug 24, 2011 5:41pm
I've been digesting some of the things which have been said and if i'm honest, the lack of reaction here saddens me. Is there such a general sense of malaise that we don't want our fellow traders to at least be civil with each other?
I'm not buying this whole 'trading is a tough game, if you can't take me being rude, you should pack it in' argument either. It's akin to the person who proudly states 'I'm not being rude, i'm just saying it how it is' Kind of like a general lack of manners badge of honour.

I'm not trying to pick a fight here, I just don't understand it if i'm honest. The fact is that trading IS a tough game, which tells me that sniping, (and it was sniping), is counter productive to the room karma. I said the same thing many times in the old EU thread and I was hoping we'd shed that nonsense here, but sadly not.

I can only assume it comes down to one's personality, but it is a shame when grown adults have to belittle others in order to (I presume)feed our own egos, or settle a grudge.

In the words of Morrissey:
there's always someone, somewhere / with a big nose, who knows / and who trips you up and laughs / when you fall
  • #2,615
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:42pm Aug 24, 2011 5:42pm
Yes, cold water (water cooler in work or with ice) seemed to quash the pang for the nicotine hit

Will check in tomorrow. Take it easy

Quoting sofia101
I do drink water all the time ,LOL but it 's hot here ,I like the idea ,I may smoke less .
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  • #2,616
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:44pm Aug 24, 2011 5:44pm
Quoting Wulfgar
there is def a grip of stop orders on the other side of 8000-8040..

I prefer to be on the side of the attackers shooting to knock those stops out than the defenders. I have just the one spec posiition long at 7890 now... I need the 8000 to be broken and hold strongly as support before I start legging in my more meaningful longs...

the risk on this is outcome based on Hildrebrand and the SNB's commitment to a weaker CHF... also it is heavily reliant on what the US Fed decides to do about monetary policy(jackson Hole this friday will be huge)......
Well I looked at it and it is worse a try )
  • #2,617
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:45pm Aug 24, 2011 5:45pm
Quoting pipper
Yes, cold water (water cooler in work or with ice) seemed to quash the pang for the nicotine hit

Will check in tomorrow. Take it easy
you too)
  • #2,618
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:46pm Aug 24, 2011 5:46pm
Trying a new Fibs set up. Other than that here are the levels I'm watching. 4390 and 4355 below. Indis on the other charts say down.

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  • #2,619
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:51pm Aug 24, 2011 5:51pm
Just checking in on the roll here, nothing surprising.

For the equity boys here, Steve Jobs just quit, watch AAPL at the open.
  • #2,620
  • Aug 24, 2011 5:52pm Aug 24, 2011 5:52pm
hmmm...
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