Forum: Trading Journals 
Apr 7, 2013, 8:56am
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Just a quick couple of things, not too much.
First if you do want "don't add, don't close early" then make sure you are not using TWS when your will power is depleted or your blood sugar levels...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Apr 5, 2013, 12:16pm
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Forum: Trading Journals
Apr 3, 2013, 7:22am
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
Well done on ZC. I remember your comment on your discretionary trading in which you said you just like buying oversold markets - I think you should start going over your old trades and seeing which...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Apr 2, 2013, 6:15pm
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I don't have an electronic copy of Market Wizards to search through, but I believe that "live by the sword, die by the sword" is a quote from Tom Baldwin. I try not to have any agenda when I talk to...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 28, 2013, 7:25pm
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
I don't think it would have made any difference if you were monitoring the grain reports, you know. I mean, what would you have done? You wouldn't have known in advance that it was going to fall 7%,...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 24, 2013, 8:58am
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
Nice piano music - and interesting looking movies. Did you see this one:
Floored: Into The Pit - Epic Trader Movie! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcxr-fyF4Q&)
re your friends...
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Forum: Direct Access
Mar 24, 2013, 7:49am
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Views: 257,755 Re: Interactive Brokers
You're talking about TWS? That is not my experience but there is so much different stuff in TWS, you can't rule out a bug. You'd need to try to isolate the problem or narrow it down in some way, try...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 22, 2013, 6:29am
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
Some charts! I like it. A picture is worth a thousand words. As I understand it, you should be trying to avoid or suppress that feeling of having too much profit - that's just your mind playing...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 20, 2013, 7:17pm
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
Hi Travis,
no psychology to report this time, just a couple of questions relating to your on-going positions.
Your concept of stoplosslessness begs the question, if "knowing that GBL (which...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 19, 2013, 7:39am
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
Got some more information.
The part of your brain that wires everything together, the prefrontal cortex, is responsible both for short term memory and for emotional management (resisting...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 19, 2013, 6:11am
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
OK, now I'm getting on to some interesting stuff in the Baumeister book.
You can recognise when you are "ego depleted" or "willpower depleted".
There is no single signal, rather you just...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 18, 2013, 7:39pm
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"Feeling entitled" to something from the markets is difficult to analyse in terms of what exact kind of emotion it is. Is it greed? It's obviously irrational, but it would be good to know if it's...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 17, 2013, 7:19pm
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
I suspect that your impulse to enter discretionary trades today would be reduced regardless of your blood sugar levels, because you are already in several trades.
The material I am reading on...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 14, 2013, 12:45pm
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
All those things are just examples of willpower energy usage.
Your self-control in terms of raping the next attractive woman you see does not correlate with your self-control (or lack of it) in...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 14, 2013, 10:37am
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
I am currently reading the book that this article is based on:
Do you suffer from decision fatigue? ...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 13, 2013, 10:14am
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1500 words in that post. Not bad for an internet forum post.
Hopefully there won't be anything regarding psychology & training that requires such long posts. I'm trying to find a way to train...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 11, 2013, 7:14am
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Thanks, that would be cool. I always figured I could learn something about entries from you.
The reason I ask whether you ask or not is simple - it's because it would define your level of...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 10, 2013, 9:17am
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
I guess my next question has to be: are you actually asking a question here? Despite it being assumed by every reader, do you actually want to succeed as a trader and become independently wealthy?...
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Forum: Trading Journals
Mar 9, 2013, 7:16pm
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Views: 128,358 Re: my journal 3
Since other people are throwing their hats into the ring with their solutions, I figured I would do the same, especially if it helps defuse the after-taste you have from bbmac's message. The guy is...
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Forum: Forex
Jun 26, 2012, 4:40pm
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Views: 16,834 Re: Price Action Trading
OK. Here's my take: what he says about scaling in makes good sense. Essentially what he is saying is, when the position looks good, add to it and adjust your risk via your stop. What he doesn't say...
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Forum: Trading Systems
Jun 3, 2012, 12:48pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,460 Re: The elphant in the room, over fitting
That is an interesting statement - I agree with Trendie, although I would like to know exactly what you mean. Take for example a system with one parameter only. If you run your sensitivity analysis...
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Forum: The Foyer
Apr 5, 2012, 11:50am
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Forum: Direct Access
Mar 19, 2012, 1:07pm
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Replies: 1,887
Views: 257,755 Re: Interactive Brokers
Do you want to point out which section it is that alarms you? Don't want to sound lazy but the first couple of paragraphs I read before giving up were irrelevant to the point you're making.
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Forum: Direct Access
Mar 14, 2012, 12:02pm
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Replies: 1,887
Views: 257,755 Re: Interactive Brokers
Jack O'Clubs
completely off-topic but do you really get a cheaper money transfer at a better rate when you transfer money between Euro and GBP bank accounts if you do it through IB?
Let's hope...
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Forum: Trading Systems
Feb 25, 2012, 5:39pm
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Views: 1,320 Re: 1.000.000 $ Challenge
Vlad, it seems then that you might be out of luck since the HFT algorithm traders don't swap their code with each other in public, and the only people who are swapping trading algorithms in public...
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