Monday, March 5th, 2007
Years ago, when I was reading Alexander Elder's Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management, the triple screen idea caught my attention. I thought it was a great idea for my swing trading. The basic idea is to have a broader view of your trading time frame, looking ...
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
I reviewed my trade, and found a mistake that I have made. Basically, I have ignored my own trend evaluation system as I have mentioned in my earlier post "Defining a trend". So this post just serves as a note to myself.
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
I read some trading bloggers mention “If you can’t trade well in stocks/ETF, then don’t think about trading options or futures”. And comes to comparison why trading ETF is a better choice to trading futures or options. blah blah blah. It is really a BLAH.
Well, it sounds logical and right. ...
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Consistency, consistency, this is one of the most important quality I wanna achieve. Here I have a set of goals pertaining to consistency. I got the material from an article sometimes ago. I have no idea who is the author. Anyway, here is the abstract and I have added my ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
I was reading some trading articles, at the same time, review my past performance. What I am trying to do is identifying some fatal patterns that caused my losses. Why?
I am not referring to chart patterns, but the patterns of traders' behaviors. When I first started trading, I was told ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
This started from yesterday when I was proudly showing my Adjusted TRIN and Buyer/Seller Index to my fiancee, because I thought it was so cool. Well, I guess the colored lines on the chart were meaningless to her. She said :" When you first started dummy trading, you were trying ...
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