Archive for August, 2011

  • Trading psychology fascinates me. On the surface, it appears to be the simplest thing to do. See this signal – do this do that, right? But any veteran day trader will tell...

    Trading Psychology and time cycles

    Trading psychology fascinates me. On the surface, it appears to be the simplest thing to do. See this signal – do this do that, right? But any veteran day trader will tell...

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  • Listen to this quote, from Mark Douglas and “TRADING IN THE ZONE”… “…The psychological dilemma that virtually every trader has to resolve is that you may be aware that the...

    Trading in the Zone

    Listen to this quote, from Mark Douglas and “TRADING IN THE ZONE”… “…The psychological dilemma that virtually every trader has to resolve is that you may be aware that the...

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  • Mark Douglas wrote, “Trading in the Zone”, and was known for his seven principles of consistency – the 7 means of measuring if you were in fact “trading in the...

    7 principles of consistency

    Mark Douglas wrote, “Trading in the Zone”, and was known for his seven principles of consistency – the 7 means of measuring if you were in fact “trading in the...

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  • Check out this chart from today’s emini S&P (August 8th, 2011)     Once again, I’m amazed at how just waiting for the right time – the repetition of the...

    Time Cycle Indicators Do It Again

    Check out this chart from today’s emini S&P (August 8th, 2011)     Once again, I’m amazed at how just waiting for the right time – the repetition of the...

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  • Once I started trading markets with Flux time cycle indicators and tools, when I started delving into the data and mining it for patterns that were either there or not...

    Time Cycles in Day Trading with Market Chaos

    Once I started trading markets with Flux time cycle indicators and tools, when I started delving into the data and mining it for patterns that were either there or not...

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  • What is the coolest wrist watch you have ever seen? There are literally thousands of unique designs and cool function in wrist watches today. Much like trading indicators, but as a day...

    The Trading Watch…trading time cycles

    What is the coolest wrist watch you have ever seen? There are literally thousands of unique designs and cool function in wrist watches today. Much like trading indicators, but as a day...

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  • Yesterday afternoon I was assisting a veteran Flux Time Cycle trader with a Ninjatrader platform issue. Good traders are not necessarily good computer techs! In our conversation (while I was working on...

    Time Cycle Indicator Addiction!

    Yesterday afternoon I was assisting a veteran Flux Time Cycle trader with a Ninjatrader platform issue. Good traders are not necessarily good computer techs! In our conversation (while I was working on...

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  • I came across an interesting search of “Futures Trading” results in the Google search engine today. It’s one of those trading articles where I sort of scream at the screen...

    Futures Trading: A cautionary guide

    I came across an interesting search of “Futures Trading” results in the Google search engine today. It’s one of those trading articles where I sort of scream at the screen...

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  • Timing indicators are a misunderstood class of indicators. If they’re in NinjaTrader, or Tradestation, or MetaTrader, they can be easily overlooked because on the surface, timing indicators are not obvious...

    Timing Indicators

    Timing indicators are a misunderstood class of indicators. If they’re in NinjaTrader, or Tradestation, or MetaTrader, they can be easily overlooked because on the surface, timing indicators are not obvious...

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