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  • #3,521
  • Aug 26, 2011 12:47am Aug 26, 2011 12:47am
Quoting kenfen69
I have short orders at 4423, 4436 and 4448. Fill'em. Whiskey looks good. Out.
yea im managing my long from this am closely here
  • #3,522
  • Aug 26, 2011 12:52am Aug 26, 2011 12:52am
Quoting fxjawn
he's a shitty breakout predictor...

Those that cant do try to teach... Those that teach charge for it so they can use the money to deposit in their accounts to cover their shitty trades..

Thats because their only source of income is raping aspiring FX traders for cash promising sucess... If they were real they would keep it close to their secret close to their chest.. Nobody goes out to do good deeds in this business..
End of story...
Actually that is not true... I do

u sound upset buddy... u ok?
  • #3,523
  • Aug 26, 2011 12:56am Aug 26, 2011 12:56am
Quoting fxjawn
yea im managing my long from this am closely here
here is a combo chart of sorts...I'm watching this 03/13 box, if we manage a close above, should open some more upside...below I'll watch 70/79...orange are weeklies, purple yesterdays, and the green are projected...
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  • #3,524
  • Edited 12:58am Aug 26, 2011 12:57am | Edited 12:58am
wtf? im trying to make a sig and its not showin up...

nevermind!
  • #3,525
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:01am Aug 26, 2011 1:01am
Quoting Wulfgar
wtf? im trying to make a sig and its not showin up...

nevermind!
Look Sharp/Trade Tight
  • #3,526
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:04am Aug 26, 2011 1:04am
Quoting PayTheLimit
man, it was messin with me.... today isnt my day.... yikes
  • #3,527
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:08am Aug 26, 2011 1:08am
Morning,

I like that 38.2 line PTL as line in the sand. @ Piters I hope you are enjoying the ride. To the rest, last day of summer trading and QE3/FED party will mark the start of the new season.

GL all trading today....

sisse
Pending conversations? PM for a chat...I am mainly in OTM now
  • #3,528
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:10am Aug 26, 2011 1:10am
Quoting sisse
Morning,


GL all trading today....

sisse
morning brother, and good luck to you too...
Look Sharp/Trade Tight
  • #3,529
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:15am Aug 26, 2011 1:15am
Okay, that was some fun. Since there's some computer geeks here, I'll thumbnail what happened. I shot myself in the foot is what happened.

The analytic engine paints info to an Excel worksheet every 5 seconds. It "owns" an instance of the Excel application object, but it looks and is a regular Excel, appearing on the task bar, etc.

Couple hours ago, I was on that Excel sheet, building some charts, looking at some stuff, screwing around. Now, that workbook is continuously being updated, and the software sends cell info to the Excel object, etc and puts the data onto the sheet.

I left the focus on a chart sheet; the sheet was highlighted. The program tried to tell Excel to it had to move to a certain cell on a certain sheet, and Excel said "no can do." The program's written so that if Excel tells it that it's busy, it saves the info it needs to paint in a buffer, and when Excel gets done doing what ever its doing, then all the info is painted onto the sheet.

But the buffer is sized so as to allow Excel a reasonable amount of time, but not forever. The buffer overflowed, and crashed the program. The kid that watches overnight came in, saw the error message, and called my cell phone, which I'd left in the bedroom. He couldn't get through on the house phone, because I'd even earlier left that hooked to the fax.

So he went by procedure, and traded it flat (at 08, I think). While Magix and I were talking, I'd periodically look at the market, wondering when in the he11 it was going to roll long, and then all of a sudden I was long 1 EUR. Reached for the phone, couldn't find it, and discovered what was happening.

Anyway, manual long at 13, everything is restarted. But this is why trading is never completely automated. And it's what is meant by operational risk.
  • #3,530
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:22am Aug 26, 2011 1:22am
Quoting OldQuant
Okay, that was some fun. Since there's some computer geeks here, I'll thumbnail what happened. I shot myself in the foot is what happened.

The analytic engine paints info to an Excel worksheet every 5 seconds. It "owns" an instance of the Excel application object, but it looks and is a regular Excel, appearing on the task bar, etc.

Couple hours ago, I was on that Excel sheet, building some charts, looking at some stuff, screwing around. Now, that workbook is continuously being updated, and the software sends cell info to the Excel object,...
sounds like on balance brother, you've had a rough week..
Look Sharp/Trade Tight
  • #3,531
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:22am Aug 26, 2011 1:22am
Quoting Wulfgar
Actually that is not true... I do

u sound upset buddy... u ok?
im not upset just spreaking the truth bro...

im no talking about friends helping friends im talking more about the nature of the beast as a whole
  • #3,532
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:28am Aug 26, 2011 1:28am
Quoting PayTheLimit
here is a combo chart of sorts...I'm watching this 03/13 box, if we manage a close above, should open some more upside...below I'll watch 70/79...orange are weeklies, purple yesterdays, and the green are projected...
thanks my buddy
  • #3,533
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:36am Aug 26, 2011 1:36am
Quoting fxjawn
33 bro for me if it breaks the 33-36 we r outta here i think...


but watch for the old trusty frankie fakie... i have my profit protection stop in place in case of that
here we are
  • #3,534
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:44am Aug 26, 2011 1:44am
couple of 2005/8 numbers...that upper 4561 is the trigger for the next leg up..
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  • #3,535
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:45am Aug 26, 2011 1:45am
Quoting PayTheLimit
sounds like on balance brother, you've had a rough week..
Yeah, with this debacle, back negative for the week. But at least there's nothing that can be said tomorrow, to say nothing of the GDP announcement, that isn't going to move this market 100 ticks one way or the other. Assuming I leave my hands off of everything, we'll get a piece of that.
  • #3,536
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:47am Aug 26, 2011 1:47am
hey cloggie i did not wuss out and close it this time
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  • #3,537
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:52am Aug 26, 2011 1:52am
Quoting OldQuant
Yeah, with this debacle, back negative for the week. But at least there's nothing that can be said tomorrow, to say nothing of the GDP announcement, that isn't going to move this market 100 ticks one way or the other. Assuming I leave my hands off of everything, we'll get a piece of that.
Sorry for that mate, I have had a very mediocre week too.... in any case, agree, a mover is coming and we'll get a piece of that. GL.

sisse
Pending conversations? PM for a chat...I am mainly in OTM now
  • #3,538
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:53am Aug 26, 2011 1:53am
Quoting fxjawn
hey cloggie i did not wuss out and close it this time
lol..well played...cloggs will still give you shit though..he's long from 47, lol, and his out will be better, and will have to listen to him all day again...
Look Sharp/Trade Tight
  • #3,539
  • Aug 26, 2011 1:56am Aug 26, 2011 1:56am
Quoting OldQuant
Yeah, with this debacle, back negative for the week. But at least there's nothing that can be said tomorrow, to say nothing of the GDP announcement, that isn't going to move this market 100 ticks one way or the other. Assuming I leave my hands off of everything, we'll get a piece of that.
will be done with the summer session soon, should be a nice stretch to DEC..it will all come out in the wash brother..
Look Sharp/Trade Tight
  • #3,540
  • Aug 26, 2011 2:09am Aug 26, 2011 2:09am
Quoting fxjawn
im not upset just spreaking the truth bro...

im no talking about friends helping friends im talking more about the nature of the beast as a whole
ya u r right....
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