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  • #1
  • First Post: Aug 18, 2012 11:57pm Aug 18, 2012 11:57pm
what do you do in between waiting ?

trading is a tedious job and boring
there are waiting for an opportunity
there is waiting set up
there is waiting repeated pattern or harmony pattern
there is waiting momentum or strong move
there is waiting after momentum and after strong move
there are waiting for break out range
there is a waiting breakout then pullback / retest
there is waiting breakout pinbar or IB
there are waiting for the chance to trade range
and range of variety and so,,etc,,etc,,,

on the sidelines that time
There was good we do mutual chit chat about everything
okay to post video about everything
also can posting trading chart / poster
or share experiences about everything
or want teach someone how to trade
or just share a tip
or just say hello
or just lurking

so we waited on the sidelines wait for the opportunity arises
we do not fall asleep in between

thank you for taking the time to share

cheer
w
  • #2
  • Aug 19, 2012 3:39am Aug 19, 2012 3:39am
Trading is what I do between everything else. I only trade 4H & daily so it takes up very little time.
  • #3
  • Aug 19, 2012 3:48am Aug 19, 2012 3:48am
And that's EXACTLY it bro. Why rot in front of the screen all day when time's short and life has so many great things to offer /and we know the best things in life are OFFLINE/

Quoting willf
Trading is what I do between everything else. I only trade 4H & daily so it takes up very little time.
forget about tomorrow, just steal away into the night
  • #4
  • Aug 19, 2012 9:55am Aug 19, 2012 9:55am
Quoting willf
Trading is what I do between everything else. I only trade 4H & daily so it takes up very little time.

hi,, willf,, thanks for the comment,,,
I hope you always do well

unfortunately what I can do just scalping
because I enjoy scalping
yes everyone has a different style < has his own style >

best regards
w
  • #5
  • Aug 19, 2012 10:17am Aug 19, 2012 10:17am
Quoting spekitox
And that's EXACTLY it bro. Why rot in front of the screen all day when time's short and life has so many great things to offer /and we know the best things in life are OFFLINE/

hi,,spekitox,,I appreciate your opinion,,
but I am familiar with the scalping

I'm scalping approximately something like this

Inserted Video


sometimes on the 1m
sometimes on the 5m
sometimes on the 15m

best regards
w
  • #6
  • Aug 19, 2012 11:57am Aug 19, 2012 11:57am
Here is an idea: Go out and enjoy life. Make your homework, write your plan for the day, buy an Ipad. Get the number of your broker. Just keep an eye on it it's not like you have tocarry 6 screens with you; if you do need those screens you must be processing a lot of information and so you can not be bored.
  • #7
  • Aug 19, 2012 1:19pm Aug 19, 2012 1:19pm
Me? Manage a website, play Dota 2, read some books, watch movies, watch TV, watch youtube, go out and get some beverages, facebook-ing, basically anything that excites me at the time =)
The tone of your words reflects the quality and result of your trading ;-)
  • #8
  • Aug 19, 2012 1:25pm Aug 19, 2012 1:25pm
Quoting willf
Trading is what I do between everything else. I only trade 4H & daily so it takes up very little time.
^ real trader
  • #9
  • Aug 19, 2012 1:28pm Aug 19, 2012 1:28pm
I'm usually working, doing the daily grind. I trade off a laptop, tablet and smartphone. I trade the 1h charts and monitor my positions every 15min.
It's quite stressful and I've nearly fought twice in my workplace due to frustration in the markets.
And yet I'm a very profitable trader.
wo-yoy! wo-yoy! wo-yoy! wo-yoi! wo-yoy-yoy-yoy!
  • #10
  • Aug 19, 2012 3:10pm Aug 19, 2012 3:10pm
Quoting wendykurnia
hi,,spekitox,,I appreciate your opinion,,
but I am familiar with the scalping

I'm scalping approximately something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJc7C...eature=related

sometimes on the 1m
sometimes on the 5m
sometimes on the 15m

best regards
w
- I literally stopped to watch your video to see Price stall at Supply ..lol
  • #11
  • Aug 19, 2012 3:10pm Aug 19, 2012 3:10pm
Quoting wendykurnia
hi,, willf,, thanks for the comment,,,
I hope you always do well

unfortunately what I can do just scalping
because I enjoy scalping
yes everyone has a different style < has his own style >

best regards
w
Just my opinion but I have always felt that a good system should be transferable between time-frames, markets etc. Have you looked at if your system works on the daily? It should just be a matter of adjusting your position size to suit.

Just my 2 cents
  • #12
  • Aug 19, 2012 3:32pm Aug 19, 2012 3:32pm
Quoting wendykurnia
hi,,spekitox,,I appreciate your opinion,,
but I am familiar with the scalping

I'm scalping approximately something like this
I appreciate your appreciation. I see, as a scalper, you don't have as much time between entries as for example H4 or daily traders. So you can't go out, eat or watch a movie because you'd risk missing a nice setup.
Maybe you could be using alerts on the charts, they will play ding-dong when price crosses a level, could be good for breakouts. You do whatever you gotta do then you hear ding-dong and rush to your charts.

Quoting wendykurnia
There was good we do mutual chit chat about everything
okay to post video about everything
also can posting trading chart / poster
or share experiences about everything
or want teach someone how to trade
or just share a tip
or just say hello
or just lurking
Those in the middle, I'd leave to others - sharing tips and teaching others how to trade.
but I'm in for the first and last couple of options above ... chitchat, saying hello and lurking .. I can even post videos about everything.

When scalping, you better focus on the market, and don't distract yourself with anything, but when you're NOT trading, you can listen to some music ...
Inserted Video

Inserted Video
forget about tomorrow, just steal away into the night
  • #13
  • Aug 19, 2012 9:03pm Aug 19, 2012 9:03pm
Quoting spekitox
I appreciate your appreciation. I see, as a scalper, you don't have as much time between entries as for example H4 or daily traders. So you can't go out, eat or watch a movie because you'd risk missing a nice setup.
Maybe you could be using alerts on the charts, they will play ding-dong when price crosses a level, could be good for breakouts. You do whatever you gotta do then you hear ding-dong and rush to your charts.



Those in the middle, I'd leave to others - sharing tips and teaching others how to trade.
but I'm in for the first...
hi,, spekitox,, and willf,,
thank you for the comment and the music

yes i look at hourly and daily chart for the trend
then i go down to small TF to trade
because I just know if the price starts to move in a small TF

best regards
w
  • #14
  • Aug 20, 2012 12:58am Aug 20, 2012 12:58am
automating my trade.....
  • #15
  • Aug 20, 2012 1:00am Aug 20, 2012 1:00am
Quoting spekitox
And that's EXACTLY it bro. Why rot in front of the screen all day when time's short and life has so many great things to offer /and we know the best things in life are OFFLINE/
Not sure Speki, something to do with the mulla perhaps. The old carrot on a string... Women are expensive and demanding, kids the same. Did you know by the time your children reach 18 the average parent has spent 1 million dollars on them? Do you have any?

It would have been nice to grow up in the days of free education, and cheap housing but unfortunately the baby boomers have taken all the land and housing and the world caters to their every need. Makes it easy for you oldies to sit back and judge everything. Spare a thought for the generation who got robbed. The money right now is in retirement homes, that will be the next boom, it won't stop there either.

Anyway whilst my friends in the real world are spending 70% of their income on their mortgage of their shitty 3 bedroom house and working 40 hours a week for that pleasure, I concern myself with aiming to escape that burden. Not sure trading will allow me that, but hey ; )

I do like Wilfs idea. As a school boy, I think it's a better plan. Now if only I could stop playing computer games on the forum and get ready for some exams of which I have no real interest but to jump through the expensive, time consuming and extremely boring hoop that this fantastically economically efficient (insert sarcasm) system has placed before me.
H.D
  • #16
  • Aug 20, 2012 1:54am Aug 20, 2012 1:54am
Quoting Hilar
Anyway whilst my friends in the real world are spending 70% of their income on their mortgage of their shitty 3 bedroom house and working 40 hours a week for that pleasure, I concern myself with aiming to escape that burden. Not sure trading will allow me that, but hey ; )
I shouldn't say "shitty", one should be thankful for a roof. Just in comparison to what they pay for it is all I meant. Anyway was just an opinion piece. As long as you enjoy what you do I guess is the main thing, and is pointless unless you have people to share it with..

I'm just another un grateful youth. I prefer to rent until I'm not held by the balls by a bank for the next 30 years. Plus I can move around.

Whats this thread about again?.. Oh yeh, I just ass around the forum looking for a hug mainly.
H.D
  • #17
  • Aug 20, 2012 4:38am Aug 20, 2012 4:38am
Quoting pemully
I'm usually working, doing the daily grind. I trade off a laptop, tablet and smartphone. I trade the 1h charts and monitor my positions every 15min.
It's quite stressful and I've nearly fought twice in my workplace due to frustration in the markets.
And yet I'm a very profitable trader.
Has anyone ever smashed his or her pc,thrown the remote at the tv or something while watching the markets?
  • #18
  • Aug 20, 2012 4:54am Aug 20, 2012 4:54am
Quoting Kasapreko
Has anyone ever smashed his or her pc,thrown the remote at the tv or something while watching the markets?
In my 4 years trading... The first two I broke about 6 mice (mouses)... One hard drive and perhaps 2 monitors and never for 2 years until last month, I put my fist through a monitor. Subconsciously I was planning on getting a new one anyway cause it was kinda shi*ty. But you know you need a break when you do that. lol

Not the mark of an integral mind set.

I'm not a violent person by nature, it was a very stressful period and a good way to let off some steam and wake myself up a bit.
H.D
  • #19
  • Aug 20, 2012 6:01am Aug 20, 2012 6:01am
I love myself I want you to love me
When I feel down I want you above me
I search myself I want you to find me
I forget myself I want you to remind me

I don't want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself
Ooh I don't want anybody else Oh no, oh no, oh no

You're the one who makes me come running
You're the sun who makes me shine
When you're around I'm always laughing
I want to make you mine

I close my eyes And see you before me
Think I would die If you were to ignore me
A fool could see Just how much I adore you
I get down on my knees I do anything for you

I don't want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself
Ooh I don't want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

I love myslef I want you to love me
When i feel down I want you above me
I search myself I want you to find me
I forget myself I want you to remind me

I don't want anybody else
And when I think about you I touch myself
I don't want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

*spoken*
I want you
I don't want anybody else
And when i think about you I touch myself
OO OO OO-OO Ahhhhh

I don't want anybody else
When i think about you I touch myself
I don't want anybody else
When i think about you I touch myself
I touch myself

I don't anybody else
When i think about you I touch myself
(repeats and fades into end)
  • #20
  • Aug 20, 2012 7:10am Aug 20, 2012 7:10am
Quoting Hilar
In my 4 years trading... The first two I broke about 6 mice (mouses)... One hard drive and perhaps 2 monitors and never for 2 years until last month, I put my fist through a monitor. Subconsciously I was planning on getting a new one anyway cause it was kinda shi*ty. But you know you need a break when you do that. lol

Not the mark of an integral mind set.

I'm not a violent person by nature, it was a very stressful period and a good way to let off some steam and wake myself up a bit.
Anytime I get in that mood,I remember its going to cost me some buck to replace and I might just miss the next opportunity to recover money.
I just go out with one or two buddies of mine have, a drink (actually more than 1) and they could talk for an hour and I wont even hear a single word(just remembering that indicator that repainted on me)
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