Recent content by svengali

RogerM - maybe the French will interpret it as 8500ft AGL... Mountain flying is certainly something I miss doing.

Surely you are joking! On what grounds? I haven't flown gliders for several years now, but certainly enjoyed the view from 15000ft when I did! -svengali

I don't know how to make IE save it automatically - every time I need to retrieve a file automatically, I use wget. Hope this helps, -svengali

When you say 'trying to be too short term', what sort of timescale are you holding positions on? How much do you vary that between futures and SBs (or rather, how much do you think you should vary it ;-)) -svengali

Week 3 Not a bad week this week. Again, I traded on 3 evenings (Tue, Wed & Thu), using the Daily Dow, between around 7:30pm and 9pm. Actually, I didn't trade on Wednesday. Whilst plotting the data, I didn't find anything that took my fancy, so I gave it a miss. I made a total of 4 trades...

Hi Helen, Maybe I'll give fuller details for week 3. I've given reasonable descriptions of all my trades this week, just not the actual figures. Then again, my errors this week have been more personal than technical, so the actual numbers aren't so relevant for a public audience. And anyway...

Week 2 Definately a learning experience this week. On a purely numerical view, I didn't do very well. But looking a little deeper, I learnt quite a lot, and also proved to my satisfaction that there are possibilities that I can exploit. I'm not going to detail exact trades this week, since I...

Hi Helen, I don't think you were criticising at all. I simply think you were pointing out some of the pitfalls of using SB companies. I appreciate that. I am aware that there are many downsides to SBs (mainly the spread, the fact that they use futures, and the old chestnut of bias/no bias)...

Hi Trader333, Thanks for the feedback. I was quite pleased with trade 4 myself, as I simply got out without dithering. More trades like that I think. I'll see what happens next week... --Svengali

Hi Helen, Thanks for the response. I thought I'd try to swell the ranks of the lonely diarists a bit. Incidentally to all you lurkers - writing about your trades (especially the critical self-analysis bit) is definately worthwhile. Do it here in a diary, and enjoy the feedback. I understand...

Week 1 A trading diary is good for the soul, I am told. So here is a diary for my first week of trading. Just for background, I have a SB account, and am trying to trade in the evenings (7:30 to 9pm). And I am plotting charts by hand. In my first week, I have done 5 trades, resulting in a...

Yes. No. PnF should record any significant price action portrayed in the subset of data points that you choose to consider. Some people use 1 minute data to feed their PnF charts - they get very different charts to the people using EOD data for their charts. Both are using a subset of all...

The same thing happens when you consider a 1 minute chart compared to a 15 minute chart etc. Yes - you will miss intraday events by only using end-of-day data. But you will catch events that occur over longer timescales instead. It is said that Technical Analysis is scale-invariant. That is...

If you are charting off end-of-day data, then you will only see support/resistance lines that are apparent with market close data. If you want to see intraday features, you need to use intraday data. And yes - one data item can only do one of: a) Extend existing column b) Start new column in...

Just to complete the PrintScreen tip: PrintScreen on its own: grab the screen to the clipboard. Alt + PrintScreen: grab the active window to the clipboard. Just grabbing the window means you don't have to edit the image to remove the extra junk like taskbars and desktop icons etc. Also it...