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  • #10,001
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:29am Sep 8, 2011 9:29am
Quoting FibbinArchie
was thinking about that as i typed, yes some controlled greed is a good thing, allowing winning trades to develop etc.. certainly one area of my trading that needs improvement, as i tend to take profit too early..

sheesh when i think about it, i bought last years exact low in g/u and cashed in for about 50 pips..

Greed is something that you need to develop. Most traders actually have a very hard time with that one. You have to be a greedy bastard to make it in this business. The best traders are the greediest @rseholes around when on the desk.
  • #10,002
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:30am Sep 8, 2011 9:30am
Quoting FibbinArchie
means having a few winners on the bounce and feeling so good that you feel you're invincible..
ah good, that one I've definitely killed
Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself
  • #10,003
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:30am Sep 8, 2011 9:30am
Quoting cloggie
Made the mistake of peeking into the muppets and found the post of the day:



face palm..
  • #10,004
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:32am Sep 8, 2011 9:32am
Quoting cloggie
Greed is something that you need to develop. Most traders actually have a very hard time with that one. You have to be a greedy bastard to make it in this business. The best traders are the greediest @rseholes around when on the desk.
i'll concede to your seniority on that one cloggs, i understand what you mean...

pigs get slaughtered, but only when they're fat little bastards..

still long?
  • #10,005
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:34am Sep 8, 2011 9:34am
will buy at 3960
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  • #10,006
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:36am Sep 8, 2011 9:36am
Quoting FibbinArchie
fear of missing out is the worst imo..
If you you can enter anywhere in the PA knowing the price will hit your TP, then that's not an issue. Focus on TPs. That's where the profit lives. That's all that matters. I, for one, turned this mental thing upside down. I don't care much about entries (maybe I should do what gator or cloggie does and then I would have the perfect system). if I think the price will go to a certain point, I enter the damn trade and I assume the risk of the DD (Yeah I do manage that with counter/different size trades) but I always have my eyes on the price. You probably noticed, I don't really give out entries. In some instances I would be chased out of town (and rightfully so), but I always give targets.
  • #10,007
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:36am Sep 8, 2011 9:36am
Quoting FibbinArchie
i'll concede to your seniority on that one cloggs, i understand what you mean...

You don't enter this business for the fun of it. You enter this because it will give you a lifestyle that nothing else around can give you. You enter this business because you feel ready that your mind is better then the hundreds of thousands of traders and machines that are in the market at the same time. You enter this market with a goal, everybody here whether they admit it or not want to be a millionaire. You can't become one being nice, you got to take the market by the throat and squeeze as much out of it as you can.

If you have problems with running trades to a meaningful TP, don't just look at your fear, make sure you are hungry enough for it. Working on your greed will take care of that fear automatically.

Traders that are so freakin greedy that they will take anything they can out of a daily range have no fear left, if they do, they just become greedier to counter it.

How bad do you want it????????
  • #10,008
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:38am Sep 8, 2011 9:38am
when is hypnobama's speech anyone?
  • #10,009
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:39am Sep 8, 2011 9:39am
dammmmmmmmmmmmm


all the crackforex heads are here but i see no fooken pipe and no mubbets WTF no fun, any way i know u are in green greedy bastored i hope so , getting my T S ready , all the luck u need it with colgg around
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  • #10,010
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:39am Sep 8, 2011 9:39am
Quoting cloggie
You don't enter this business for the fun of it. You enter this because it will give you a lifestyle that nothing else around can give you. You enter this business because you feel ready that your mind is better then the hundreds of thousands of traders and machines that are in the market at the same time. You enter this market with a goal, everybody here whether they admit it or not want to be a millionaire. You can't become one being nice, you got to take the market by the throat and squeeze as much out of it as you can.

If you have problems...
bad enough...

feel free to brain dump btw, it's all going in the cloggie wisdom folder..
  • #10,011
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:41am Sep 8, 2011 9:41am
Quoting FibbinArchie
bad enough...

Well, I hope you reloaded on that last test of 77 for 4040 then.
  • #10,012
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:43am Sep 8, 2011 9:43am
Quoting cloggie
You don't enter this business for the fun of it. You enter this because it will give you a lifestyle that nothing else around can give you. You enter this business because you feel ready that your mind is better then the hundreds of thousands of traders and machines that are in the market at the same time. You enter this market with a goal, everybody here whether they admit it or not want to be a millionaire. You can't become one being nice, you got to take the market by the throat and squeeze as much out of it as you can.

If you have problems...
way to gooo how u been H M
  • #10,013
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:44am Sep 8, 2011 9:44am
Quoting cloggie
Well, I hope you reloaded on that last test of 77 for 4040 then.
admittedly wanted it lower, but point taken...
  • #10,014
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:48am Sep 8, 2011 9:48am
Quoting FibbinArchie
bad enough...

feel free to brain dump btw, it's all going in the cloggie wisdom folder..

You are a decent trader, you show good entries, decent exits. You need to take it to the next level now. If you are not full time and work a dayjob, you need to spend 10 hours a day around your job focusing on trading, a few hours before you go to work and a few hours after you come home. You need to print of a set of charts when you go to work and play with them. You need to keep a smartphone or office computer loaded with charts to look at during the day. You forgo your lunch hour and trade instead. You spend 12 hours a day on Sat/Sun working on your strategy, testing it, riding the sim. You forego niceties in your life, you ignore family and friends.

Do this for a year and you can give up your dayjob. Everybody who wants it bad enough can make it in this business.

It ain't rocketscience. Unless you are a quant, most of the traders in the CIty are as thick as two planks, dumber then a box of rocks.
  • #10,015
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:48am Sep 8, 2011 9:48am
Quoting kill56
way to gooo how u been H M

How is Killy? Walking yet? Good to have you back, finished the house?
  • #10,016
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:50am Sep 8, 2011 9:50am
Quoting cloggie
you got to take the market by the throat and squeeze as much out of it as you can.
Why do you think I have this on my profile? LOL.

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  • #10,017
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:53am Sep 8, 2011 9:53am
Quoting cloggie
You don't enter this business for the fun of it. You enter this because it will give you a lifestyle that nothing else around can give you. You enter this business because you feel ready that your mind is better then the hundreds of thousands of traders and machines that are in the market at the same time. You enter this market with a goal, everybody here whether they admit it or not want to be a millionaire. You can't become one being nice, you got to take the market by the throat and squeeze as much out of it as you can.

If you have problems...
very true
  • #10,018
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:53am Sep 8, 2011 9:53am
Quoting cloggie
You are a decent trader, you show good entries, decent exits. You need to take it to the next level now. If you are not full time and work a dayjob, you need to spend 10 hours a day around your job focusing on trading, a few hours before you go to work and a few hours after you come home. You need to print of a set of charts when you go to work and play with them. You need to keep a smartphone or office computer loaded with charts to look at during the day. You forgo your lunch hour and trade instead. You spend 12 hours a day on Sat/Sun working...
really appreciate the pep talk, thanks cloggs...
  • #10,019
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:55am Sep 8, 2011 9:55am
Quoting cloggie
How is Killy? Walking yet? Good to have you back, finished the house?
thanks

little kill did not leave any pc nor laptop love to break things , running around ,

house wise still way to go , 5000sf its killen me
  • #10,020
  • Sep 8, 2011 9:55am Sep 8, 2011 9:55am
good morning traders ) I have done better trading with my pending orders ) coffee now
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