My Name is Grant Olsen: I Am A DayTrader

[TraderNumber7]

There are many different ways to skin a cat. Here is a good example of what I consider over-kill, but what another considers his bread & butter.

Proof positive in my mind that NO approach to the market - as long as it works - it be wrong.

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[Black Swan]

Now if I had a set up like that the family would really believe I had a "proper job"...sigh...

 

[robster970]

If I had a setup like that, my family would think that I am an air traffic controller.

 

[gedward3]

You dont need all that to trade.

I light my smokers pipe and blow smoke rings out of my window
and my broker does the trade for me.

Im up every day.

Ged

 

[Paulie_5]

He probably spreadbets one pair at £0.10 pp

 

[Black Swan]

He probably spreadbets one pair at £0.10 pp

 

[GammaJammer]

I have 8 screens, 3 PCs, assorted keyboards and custom trading keypads etc. But it don't mean sh*t. Truly. I'm not a better trader than when I had 6, or 4, it's just tools for my particular day job. Not a reason NOT to use em, but you won't see me posting pictures of my desk here. It's just not important in the grand scheme of things

 

[Jack Hughes]

No-one gets to see my desk, either. If they zoomed in they might be able to make out the holy grail etched into the formica.

 

[0007]

Here's just one of my desks - this setup monitors the power consumption of all my systems.

 

[chump]

"formica" is just ..so yesterday

Gordon Brown used to trade off a desk made of gold beofre he sold it.Nowadays he prefers his desk on sand ..quicksand

 

[Jack Hughes]

"formica" is just ..so yesterday

Gordon Brown used to trade off a desk made of gold beofre he sold it.Nowadays he prefers his desk on sand ..quicksand

Good job you can't see my Bakelite telephone and Filofax.

 

[Sunshine On Leith]

Good job you can't see my Bakelite telephone and Filofax.

Filofax are trendy again apparently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/7308271/The-return-of-the-Filofax.html

 

[Jack Hughes]

Filofax are trendy again apparently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/7308271/The-return-of-the-Filofax.html

The Telegraph is the acknowledged voice of trendiness, so mine is going in the bin immediately.

 

[maiden22]

The Telegraph is the acknowledged voice of trendiness, so mine is going in the bin immediately.

I think that you will find that The Chap is actually the final word on trendiness. It is a little forward-thinking for my tastes.

http://www.thechap.net/

 

[maiden22]

This is one of my trading stations - we use this one for my automated MA crossover system.

Here are some of my assistants (can't get by without them) celebrating a win on cable. From memory it was 50p / pip with Finspreads, 23 pips profit.

This is the artist's impression of the extension I'm going to have built. This will finally give me the resources I need to operate my FTSE scalping system.

One last one - the panel of advisors I have assembled to help with my divergence strategy. With Capital Spreads demanding a minimum of £1 / pip, you can't be too careful:

I really don't know how people can trade with less than this.

 

[Jack Hughes]

I believe it (except for winning £11.50 from Finspreads, which we all know never happens).

 

[maiden22]

I believe it (except for winning £11.50 from Finspreads, which we all know never happens).

Yes indeed!

 

[maiden22]

Of course, it's not just about hardware - oh no.

To be successful, a trader also needs a few indicators. This is a partial list of what I keep on my charts:

Accelerator/Decelerator Oscillator (AC), Accumulation/Distribution Line (A/D), Alligator, Aroon and Aroon Oscillator, Average Directional Index (ADX), Average True Range (ATR), Bollinger Bands, Bollinger Band Width, Commodity Channel Index (CCI), Chaikin Money Flow, Chaikin Oscillator, DeMarker (DeM), Elder-rays, Envelopes, Fractals, Gator Oscillator, Ichmoku Kinko Hyo, MACD, Momentum, Money Flow Index (MFI), Moving Average Envelope, Moving averages, On Balance Volume (OBV), Open interest, Parabolic SAR, Pivot Points on Price, Price Channels, Price Oscillator, Price Relative, Price By Volume, Rabbitt Q-StockRank, Rate of Change, Relative Strength Index (RSI), Standard deviation, Stochastic Oscillator, Stochastic RSI, TRIX, Ultimate Oscillator, Williams %R, ZigZag, Absolute Price Oscillator.

There's not a lot of room left for price, to be honest.

 

[Tenapenny]

Of course, it's not just about hardware - oh no.

To be successful, a trader also needs a few indicators. This is a partial list of what I keep on my charts:

Accelerator/Decelerator Oscillator (AC), Accumulation/Distribution Line (A/D), Alligator, Aroon and Aroon Oscillator, Average Directional Index (ADX), Average True Range (ATR), Bollinger Bands, Bollinger Band Width, Commodity Channel Index (CCI), Chaikin Money Flow, Chaikin Oscillator, DeMarker (DeM), Elder-rays, Envelopes, Fractals, Gator Oscillator, Ichmoku Kinko Hyo, MACD, Momentum, Money Flow Index (MFI), Moving Average Envelope, Moving averages, On Balance Volume (OBV), Open interest, Parabolic SAR, Pivot Points on Price, Price Channels, Price Oscillator, Price Relative, Price By Volume, Rabbitt Q-StockRank, Rate of Change, Relative Strength Index (RSI), Standard deviation, Stochastic Oscillator, Stochastic RSI, TRIX, Ultimate Oscillator, Williams %R, ZigZag, Absolute Price Oscillator.

Charts a la Picasso!

 

[Jack Hughes]

Of course, it's not just about hardware - oh no.

To be successful, a trader also needs a few indicators. This is a partial list of what I keep on my charts:

Accelerator/Decelerator Oscillator (AC), Accumulation/Distribution Line (A/D), Alligator, Aroon and Aroon Oscillator, Average Directional Index (ADX), Average True Range (ATR), Bollinger Bands, Bollinger Band Width, Commodity Channel Index (CCI), Chaikin Money Flow, Chaikin Oscillator, DeMarker (DeM), Elder-rays, Envelopes, Fractals, Gator Oscillator, Ichmoku Kinko Hyo, MACD, Momentum, Money Flow Index (MFI), Moving Average Envelope, Moving averages, On Balance Volume (OBV), Open interest, Parabolic SAR, Pivot Points on Price, Price Channels, Price Oscillator, Price Relative, Price By Volume, Rabbitt Q-StockRank, Rate of Change, Relative Strength Index (RSI), Standard deviation, Stochastic Oscillator, Stochastic RSI, TRIX, Ultimate Oscillator, Williams %R, ZigZag, Absolute Price Oscillator.

There's not a lot of room left for price, to be honest.

Pah, I ditched price years ago. Gurus just don't need it.