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trendie

Not content with discovering the greatest trading system the world has ever known, he has now written Nexus, a swing-trading system.
The book is available for around £200 or so.

Has anyone bought/read/used the system, and provide some evaluation for it?

For me, I may wait for a few months, and try to catch it on ebay, when it gets to around the £40-50 mark.

thanks, and have a great trading day. (I am off to the Dr Who Exhibition )

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TheBramble

Sure sign trendie is an aspie....

TheBramble

I understand the book is in A5 format so it will be easy to take with you on the way to work.

timsk

Tony - I recall in the dim and distant past that you were writing (or considering writing, anyway) your own trading book. Any developments on that front - publication date, RRP and discounts for old friends etc?

Tim.

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TheBramble

Bless you for asking.

It isn’t going to happen short term, or even long term.

While writing as and when I wanted on topics that occurred to me as sufficiently interesting to write about in my own style and to my own schedule was, and is, a pleasure, it’s all rather different when it becomes a commercial enterprise effectively ‘owned’ by someone else.

I found my personal style did not mesh well with specific guidelines given by others on style and content, that deadlines for delivery of specific ‘quantity’ or wordage and editorial involvement which increasingly modified what I wanted to write to what ‘they’ thought would work better all served to dampen my enthusiasm for the project.

Contractually I was obliged to provide as directed and was willing to do so, in my own way, but it was made increasingly clear to them it was going to take more effort on their part than they felt would have been justified for an unknown quantity such as myself and we parted on good terms, each a little the wiser.

Writing on a commercial basis takes FAR more time and effort than can be imagined and unless you’re a dyed-in-the-wool writer and have no other passions in life, I can’t imagine how it would work. Which is probably why so relatively few people who think they can write end up actually getting published.

As a dyed-in-the-wool trader then writing commercially is most clearly not an option for me. Maybe when I retire because my fingers are too gnarled with arthritic rheumatism to hit the keys or click the mouse and I’m too slow to avoid slippage larger than my targets and my stops are frequent and largely involuntary (!), I’ll drag (or will have dragged for me) my rocking-chair onto the porch and recommence my writing endeavours...

No reflection on the individual or his work about whom this thread was initiated or any other writers of trading materials – they clearly have something I do not.

tlxv04

The book offers two techniques. The techniques are relatively simple but very effective.

TheBramble

Have you used both techniques extensively? For how long? How effective - in terms of W:L, Pw:Pl, drawdown? Can it be applied to any market of just very specific ones?

I understand the book was only made available this week-end, how have you managed to trade the techniques it describes?

timsk

Tony,
I understand your problem completely. My aunt is a (retired) professor of history and has written extensively about her period of expertise (French medieval history). Even in the world of academia, her publishers put all kinds of constraints on her that she found intolerable. In your case, how about self publishing? At least that way the book will be exactly as you want it. You could possibly sell it through T2W - you're bound to at least get your money back - even if you don't make a huge profit? It's just a thought. I've no way of knowing for certain just how good a trader you are Tony but, without doubt, you're a sublime writer. I'd certainly buy a copy!
Tim.

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