Recent content by DaveJB

Hi Richard, this thread resurrected in my mailbox and it tempted me back (briefly). Good to hear from you, I hope all is going well (I can;t imagine it not doing). Interpersonal skills - y-e-e-s-s-s-m-m-m... I liked the chap, we all have our flaws after all. Dave

Hi, and I'm breaking all records for posts now - yes, Soc could call a good trade. However, he also tended to overdo the verbals a bit, and he spent a long time telling people he was a good trader before actually proving it, which put a lot of backs up. (Memory may prove me false, but I seem to...

I'd go to Citybulls on one condition - I had decided that I had far too much money, needed an effective way to get rid of it (this rather assumes that my flamethrower had run out of gas), and wanted a trading strategy to clean myself out with. Anyhow, it's not on to advertise other websites on...

This just appeared in my inbox, and prompted what I imagine will be my first post in a year or so... when I saw I'd predicted the COMPQ and INDU in early 2005 I thought "I wonder what they did?" Crikey, I wish I'd shorted them back then <g> Now just bear in mind this little story - if you go...

Richard, sorry - missed the acrimonious thread (sounds like I was wise to)... I was suggesting that when you'd mastered the art of trading, the last thing you need to do is look at something that seems to support the 'random walk' idea, as undermining your own confidence in your ability to make...

There are NO correct values to apply to your indicators, should you decide to find out more about trading using them - it's a misconception to imagine that there is a set of 'right' numbers to put in that will ensure the signals go off at the correct time to enter and exit a trade. Thinking that...

Richard, you don't want to even consider this for a moment - when you are making money trading the last thing you need is a mental bucket of cold water in the face! Sorry if I' misunderstood, but I took: as being read left to right, and the >>> meant to represent the mathematical symbology...

No, repeating the event isn't impossible - just impossible to predict (as well as likely to take you most of your lifetime to achieve once) because Newtonian mechanics won't predict for chaotic systems, which was the point I was making... Newton does not mean everything is predetermined which...

Sorry, gotta comment on this bit - Newton's laws are an extremely good (and impressive, given their age) approximation to the way that matter on the macroscopic scale behaves in the Universe. They have, however, been superceded by Einstein's work which covers the interaction of space, mass and...

Well, as we've met Richard, I suspect you spotted one or two teensy inconsistencies in my description... but apart from the 'bronzed' 'Adonis' and '2 foot' bits I didn't stray too far from reality. A variety of factors count, enough intelligence not to be totally stupid is probably needed, but...

Nahhh, thankfully, as anyone who met me on the traders' day meetings dah sarf in past years will tell you, I'm a bit of a bronzed Adonis to look at, with a 2 foot long tongue.

I agree, (Atilla) I was brought up C of E in the 1960's, which as we all know means 'can hum the tune, but even the vicar is an agnostic', whilst school started with hymns and prayers every day. I like to think that the obviously false religious message in all of that let me develop the well...

No, my general assessment would be 'pretty much like the general population - a bit thick overall, in fact'. (I think being a bit thick helps, frankly, you think less about all the shades of grey involved in a trade and find it easier to stick to a plan 'cos your brain doesn't keep firing...

As an experiment Shadowninja I just cut a sort of Bat shaped bit of cardboard out, stuck it on the front of my torch, and shone it on the clouds (we get a lot of clouds in scotland). Surprisingly enough Gordon Brown didn't show up, so from this (admittedly small) sample of 'superhero saves the...

Hi Atilla, my post (due to a stupid extra mouse button) is actually longer than you read - corrected by an edit. As for Err, sorry, but : During this thread the pro God lot have claimed 'You can't prove God doesn't exist, therefore he does' The anti God lot have also claimed 'You can't prove...