tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51148272011-04-21T16:31:02.373-07:00A Daytrader's DiaryFacing the inner demons everyday in the (futile?) attempt to conquer the markets and make a buck.Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.comBlogger1271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1148361508173636612006-05-22T22:17:00.000-07:002006-05-22T22:18:28.183-07:00Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1120535865972366402005-07-04T20:52:00.000-07:002005-07-04T22:16:40.896-07:00This was definitely the highlight of yesterday's Sunday paper. Very funny stuff.http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1118285539471111612005-06-08T19:51:00.000-07:002005-06-08T19:52:19.476-07:00Hello. You know, I never properly said goodbye, did I? I just stopped writing, which was mighty rude of me. Anyway, for some reason this abandoned blog keeps getting its steady flow of hits. Nothing spectacular, but 40 to 50 or so hits a day which was 40 to 50 or so more than I ever imagined I'd be getting. For what? For anything, I guess. Maybe it's the government! Heck, I check in once in Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1115238499175864532005-05-04T13:28:00.000-07:002005-06-06T20:48:28.596-07:00Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1115184300097976562005-05-03T22:25:00.000-07:002005-05-03T22:38:35.526-07:00Anyone follow Merlin's NN stuff? Let's see how the rest of the week plays out. Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1115156597383161822005-05-03T14:43:00.000-07:002005-05-03T19:28:37.923-07:0089 tick ER chart on Sierra from this afternoon. I'm not sure if this is an example of luck through perseverence or an example of luck winning over sad nervous nelliness. In this timespan, I "spotted" 4 short opportunities and took 3 of them. Actually I see 5 now. #1 - I was watching the ER triangle play out this afternoon. It broke down from the triangle, tested the bottom line again (which Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1114569973212220792005-04-26T19:46:00.000-07:002005-04-26T19:48:27.733-07:00Good news! I just saved over $400 switching my car insurance back to Geico. Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1114372899129514832005-04-24T13:01:00.000-07:002005-04-24T13:13:19.720-07:00 I guess I wasn't the only one to skip out on yesterday's Circle of Blogs meeting. The Cheese took the time today to subtly reprimand us for the truancy and the atrocious pace of non-blogging going on. It's Spring Fever, I tell ya. Happens every year. My kid's just been walking for a month and loves going outside. The weather's better, and who the hell wants to hang around glued to the computer Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1114186409900050832005-04-22T09:07:00.000-07:002005-04-22T09:13:29.900-07:00Woodie's interviewed in SFO mag by the executive editor herself, Gail Osten (GO - not to be confused with gio).The Woodman Tradeth...Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1114045745492873222005-04-20T18:09:00.000-07:002005-04-20T18:10:33.916-07:00I'm happy to report that Sport continues to pick pockets clean when the spread is green, and knock 'em dead when the spread is red. However, friends are starting to worry that he's pouring every last dime of his monstrous profits into more concrete. This is one home do-it-yourself project that's gotten a little out of hand, and there's no end in sight to the construction. Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113675033201257382005-04-16T11:10:00.000-07:002005-04-16T11:11:41.923-07:00Ana Maria over at actio-et-reactio (see sidebar for link) has been writing about emotions in her most recent entries. She mentions a speech Dr. Ari Kiev gave at the New York Merc, which I watched this morning and found pretty informative and helpful. The webcast, which is about an hour long, can be accessed here.I'm in the psych mood this weekend, so I'm also re-reading Mark Douglas's Trading in Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113511559894659832005-04-14T13:45:00.000-07:002005-04-14T13:47:30.240-07:00The Club is experiencing a relatively peaceful period now. Woodie has gone "open source" with the CCI, actively promoting all the different ways people in the room have been fiddling about and using it. I think that's smart. Maybe Woodie's hit the wall after coming up with that FibCCI creature over the winter. Maybe not. I bet he's got something special up his sleeve for the upcoming London TAL. Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113508265583964412005-04-14T12:51:00.000-07:002005-04-14T13:00:28.730-07:00I love these gartley butterfly charts. It's uncanny stuff, and so gosh darn pretty (unless they bust out wrong). Wish I had charting software to automatically spot them myself instead of swiping them. It's all about traders helping traders anyway, right? What's mine is yours, and if I can right-click and save it or clip and paste it, it's mine. If anyone is looking for downside targets, these Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113508240735181612005-04-14T12:50:00.000-07:002005-04-14T12:50:40.736-07:00Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113499829770129262005-04-14T10:14:00.000-07:002005-04-14T10:30:29.770-07:00this is today's hotcomm chat:{xxxxx} zlr's suck{xxxxx} zlr's have been terrible since june 2003 or maybe it was february 2004, i need to check my stat sheet again{xxxxx} I'm getting a 3% win rate on ZLRs{xxxxx} they suck{xxxxx} Is that with the sidewinder?{xxxxx} No. My win rate is 2.7% with ZLRs with the SW{xxxxx} Thanks. That sucks.{xxxxx} zlr's suck{xxxxx} the sidewinder sucks too{xxxxx} i Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113372091338150012005-04-12T23:01:00.000-07:002005-04-12T23:16:54.570-07:00You know I had totally forgotten the initial reason why I suddenly took time off last week. It wasn't Spring Fever overwhelming me as I stated before. It was goddamned Comcast crapping out on me and booting me off the internet. I remember now because Comcrap did the same damn thing this afternoon and tonight. Same nationwide DNS problems as last week or so they say.Anyway, the comments that were Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113323116955880722005-04-12T09:25:00.000-07:002005-04-12T09:25:16.956-07:00Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113322557342075232005-04-12T09:15:00.000-07:002005-04-12T09:19:39.086-07:00My charts are all in agreement. I wonder if "sell in May and go away" has struck early this year? Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113282212349926922005-04-11T21:58:00.000-07:002005-04-11T22:03:32.356-07:00The one thing I've been remiss in doing on this blog (besides discussing actual trading) is to fill up my sidebar thingy with links to other blogs. Unless you've reached this webpage randomly by clicking that Next Blog button on the navbar, you're familiar with this tight knit group of blogs and bloggers that's grown. We meet weekly in a private hotcomm room to discuss ways to attract more Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1113244613978239492005-04-11T10:53:00.000-07:002005-04-11T11:36:53.980-07:00I took my Spring Break. Didn't go anywhere super special, but just had to get out of the house. We took the toddler (I'll still be calling him "baby" though officially he has graduated to the next level) last Wednesday for his follow-up checkup for his cold and ear infection. Everything's cleared up and we got the greenlight to go out and about, so we did. The little guy is walking now so he's Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112738051937597012005-04-05T14:54:00.000-07:002005-04-05T14:55:31.336-07:00 Hmm, like the tire commercial says: Wider is better.Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112724338535857562005-04-05T11:05:00.000-07:002005-04-05T11:24:05.866-07:00Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112636188251634672005-04-04T10:34:00.000-07:002005-04-04T10:36:28.253-07:00You know I'm a reality TV junkie. They've announced the cast of the next Surreal Life: steroids user Jose Canseco, ancient model Janice Dickenson, that Pepa chick from Salt-n-Pepa, unfunny funnyman Bronson Pinchot, Omarosa from the Apprentice, some British model named Caprice and some motorcross dude. They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time. I'd like to see a reality show Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112377159068903712005-04-01T10:05:00.000-08:002005-04-01T10:06:06.186-08:00This is sure to tack on some evil percentage points for the blog. The Pope is knock, knock, knockin' on Heaven's door, Frank Perdue has passed, and Abe Vigoda keeps going on strong. Ever think that the Pope and Frank Perdue were separated at birth, or was it just me? Separated at birth, reunited in... ahhhhhh, ok enuf of that.I just took the YM elevator down for 40 ticks. Longest ride ever for meFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112296454639027752005-03-31T11:14:00.000-08:002005-03-31T11:15:08.796-08:00Guessing the mystery MA has been a fun game for some, so here's a green one for everyone to ponder over for a couple minutes. (Hint: I'm fibbing). A forex friend said it's pretty darn good on the bund, so I slapped it on my charts today for a look-see. Lo and behold, it's come into play. Here on the 3 min YM, it held 4 times before finally giving way (btw, the green line has held as support for Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112245542142943832005-03-30T18:38:00.000-08:002005-03-30T21:05:42.143-08:00 Here's a website that'll rate how good/evil your website is.Basically, Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text. Another Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112131975907263152005-03-29T13:32:00.000-08:002005-03-29T13:44:57.486-08:00I had a college roommate that always looked forward to the day after Easter. He'd go over to Woolworth's and buy all the chocolate bunnies off the half-priced table. It was honestly one of the highlights of his year. He kept this stash in a secret place, and he ate them in secret (at least he never offered me any). Funny the stuff you remember. Anyway, that memory popped into my head yesterday (Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1112040142167057042005-03-28T12:02:00.000-08:002005-03-28T12:17:28.613-08:00Move over, Robin Dayne. There's a new trading guru coach in town. Her name is Adrienne Toghraie (google her for her website... if you wish). She'll be in Woodie's room Thursday after the close to pitch her famous TIT program: Trading In Tatters. No, that's not right. It's TOT: Trading On Target. Sorry about that. I repeat. That's the TOT program. It's available as a home study course for the Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111694695323348972005-03-24T11:52:00.000-08:002005-03-24T12:04:55.323-08:00As I sit here in my sleep deprived stupor, waiting for this agonizing market to close, the WCCI chat has taken a turn towards the surreal. Verus is on the mic. Ricky007 is on the keyboard. They're conversing about hard alcohol and beautiful women with Verus playing Yo-Yo Ma in the background. Verus says he's having a Cohiba, but he sounds totally bonged out like Tommy Chong today. Ricky sounds Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111692730650427542005-03-24T11:05:00.000-08:002005-03-24T11:32:10.653-08:00I'm going to take a pass on this Verus_FL afternoon and ask the trading gods for a "do over" next week.Good news here is the baby is solidly on the road towards recovery. He even turned off my computer twice today, so he's returning to his ol' bugger self. I've been up since 3 am. I've got to fix my bodyclock this holiday weekend. Did I trade or even watch the EUR in the early morning like an Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111591282720256542005-03-23T07:03:00.000-08:002005-03-23T07:21:22.720-08:00Woke up. Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head.It was shaping up to be another tough night. Baby was super congested and super cranky. His cough was extra phlegmy, and we were actually hoping he might vomit up some more of that muck, but he didn't. Somehow, he got to sleep around 1 am and has remained so up to now. An amazing 6+ hours. He's 2 hours overdue for his amoxicillin dose, but Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111525637317384712005-03-22T13:07:00.000-08:002005-03-22T15:13:03.110-08:00Stealing the title of another blog, "keep moving.... nothing to see here."No trading yet this week. We took the baby to the hospital 10:30pm Sunday night with a 104 degree fever. No overnite stay needed, but he's on medication for an ear infection, alternating baby motrin and tylenol for the fever, and we've been dealing with everything from a terrible wet cough that induces vomiting, Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111257006482551612005-03-19T10:30:00.000-08:002005-03-19T10:32:53.863-08:00We'll have to wait a little longer for photos from both the WCCI National Shindig/TAL and Woodie's experience at the SFO St Paddy's Green Beer with Babs Bush bash. So for now just enjoy this Barbara Bush photo from the Pomona Quilt-A-Long. Yes, the woman gets around. Speaking of getting around, Woodie has another reason to continue his non-stop tour of Earth. Apparently, at the SFO event, he won Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111170507648034482005-03-18T10:28:00.000-08:002005-03-18T10:35:33.213-08:00 Nice one that got away a short while ago. It had been very flat and slow developing for over 20 minutes. I thought I had all the time in the world and got cute on the DOM for a "perfect entry." Never got filled. Didn't chase.1) a 9/34 carom kiss 2) erGODic turning down 3) RSI-W broke it's mini bart simpson haircut uptrend, then rejected that line from underneath + stochs turned over towards a Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111083465620379382005-03-17T10:40:00.000-08:002005-03-17T10:46:08.286-08:00 Damn, I hate how slow blogger is! Oh great, now the smoke alarm goes off. BRB.I'm taking a midday break and just saw that my IB data has been out for the past hour, so I'm on an extended break now. ESPN is airing the House steroids hearing, btw. Bunch of parents and scientists so far, but Bud Selig, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are coming up. The chart shows my best trade of the morning, getting Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1111008579627000682005-03-16T14:04:00.000-08:002005-03-16T14:04:56.646-08:00 Apologies to Dr. Alexander Elder, also to Cathy, and what the heck, also Bob. I know Cathy has a great sense of humor about this. :)I've been stricken with horrible spring allergies. First time that's happened since moving to the left coast. It's basically wrecked my day. I stuck to just sporadically papertrading the euro today (and doing a crummy job of it).After a sleepless night of not Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1110847568150518532005-03-14T16:46:00.000-08:002005-03-14T17:21:03.696-08:00 Strange doings in the sky here this past weekend as the Air Woodie Balloon arrived safely from Arizona, as did the tony_UK piloted shamu 747 from the land of bangers and mash. I do kinda wish I was there, especially after the disasterous morning I suffered. How come nobody told me this was a quad witching week? I was fed mercilessly through the ginsu-matic, suffering several full stops on that Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1110737764247905982005-03-13T09:05:00.000-08:002005-03-13T10:16:04.250-08:00The Pomona Quilt-A-Long wrapped up yesterday, and a great time was had by all. I'm exhausted. It was great meeting everyone and putting a face to people's screen names in the hotcomm quilting room: Thimbellina, patches_uk, Singer, needles_CA, sew_chic, etc. Good news for those who decided to go to Anaheim this weekend and couldn't make it to the "real deal event" in Pomona. The "Sew/Design & Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1110432193341530682005-03-09T21:23:00.000-08:002005-03-09T21:23:13.340-08:00Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1110333526564776912005-03-08T17:58:00.000-08:002005-03-08T18:20:53.600-08:00 As a follow-up to the recent SFO article, "Shitting on the CCI," I just got my hardcopy of the magazine in the mail today. Woodie's been saying that at the Mile High CCI Club mini-TAL last week, the reps of SFO were apologizing profusely for the article. It's funny that SFO paid Woodie's expenses to be in Denver. They're also sponsoring the Babs Bush thingy that Woodie will also be appearing inFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1110324899222684792005-03-08T15:34:00.000-08:002005-03-08T16:26:29.570-08:00 I've been keeping a low profile in the days leading up to the WCCI National Shindig Extraordinaire on the off-chance that I actually attended. Maybe I'm ridiculously paranoid, but if I did go there, I didn't want to be publically outted as the dimwit Cheese-wannabe troublemaker. With hotcomm releasing private information and rumors of the clever team of WCCI net sleuths being able to do whois's Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109625013873988672005-02-28T13:10:00.000-08:002005-02-28T13:56:39.943-08:00 There's a new moderator in town named Cathy. She lives on a boat, and when she's on, my speakers sound like I'm in an aquarium. There are all differently murmuring sounds in her background. Boat motors or rotors. She said it was the air conditioner today. I think it was last week, her husband could be heard snoring. It's actually pretty entertaining stuff. Cathy completed the Woodie "Be a Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109624047266595162005-02-28T12:54:00.000-08:002005-02-28T13:01:13.706-08:00 Hello, Mr. President! Yes Sir, I'll be meeting your mother, Mrs. Barbara Bush. Oh, is that right? The current issue of SFO? Hold on, Mr. President, let me check. Ah yes, you're right! There she is on the cover! Wonderful! Say what, Mr. President? An article inside about the CCI? Let's see.... hmmmmm. Holy shit, what the hell is this!? I've got to go. Later. Goddamn it! Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109555236468479162005-02-27T17:25:00.000-08:002005-02-27T17:47:16.470-08:00Rejoice, Sierra/IB users!No, we're not getting the Sidewinder. The IB TWS has been updated this weekend, and it looks like we will finally be getting back data!:With the release of the next beta version of TWS, API customers will be able to request back-fill market data for the current trading day.In order to take advantage of all of our new TWS features, customers with the standalone version of Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109525811016532842005-02-27T09:36:00.000-08:002005-02-27T11:00:51.583-08:00 Gone for a couple days, but was happy to see I got my official invite to the WCCI National Conference in the mail. It's good to feel wanted. We spent a couple days in Sin City: Lost Wages, Nevada. Luckily for me, I had no currently earned wages to lose. Couldn't even afford to sit next to the blue hairs and drop a few nickels in the slot machines or else we wouldn't have enough for the $2.99 Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109276548420930292005-02-24T12:22:00.000-08:002005-02-24T12:31:31.440-08:00Happy 84th Birthday to the late Abe Vigoda! Abe Vigoda being dead has been a running joke for some time now. It's the same running joke my friends have about me blowing out my trading account years ago. It seems real. Even I believe it sometimes, but I keep logging in each day to my broker and they still let me trade, so I'm assuming everyone's wrong. Anyway, for those that are keeping tabs on MrFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109215479826698142005-02-23T19:24:00.000-08:002005-02-23T19:58:10.086-08:00YM_022305.jpgI can't give enough kudos to JoAnne for her PT primer. It's opened my eyes to a previously incomprehensible trade. After two days of trying to spot them, I'm hardly an expert. Actually, I'm still a PT bozo, but I think I'll be able to get it with more screentime on it. One thing I'm looking at now is a possible connection with good PT setups coinciding with the 5th CCI "warning bar" Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109194172993889332005-02-23T13:29:00.000-08:002005-02-23T13:29:32.993-08:00Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109183388399719142005-02-23T10:29:00.000-08:002005-02-23T10:41:00.790-08:00 Lo and behold, the sun has finally appeared here. That's the observatory in Griffith Park. The one James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood hung out at in Rebel Without A Cause. I should add that movie to my favorites in my profile. Love that angst. The King of Aroon, guavina, noted today that "a Wednesday without Gio is like a day without sunshine." Fuck that. I've seen too many days without Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109123801780473552005-02-22T17:56:00.000-08:002005-02-22T18:45:07.706-08:00 DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?It was 25 years ago today that the US Olympic hockey team upset the evil Soviets. The Lake Placid Games are especially vivid in my childhood memories because our family had just bought our first color TV. We were always behind the times. At least my parents got a good TV. It was a Sony Trinitron which they kept and used until it finally crapped out a couple years ago. Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109037419669217692005-02-21T16:30:00.000-08:002005-02-21T17:56:59.673-08:00WEEKEND UPDATE, pt 5I know what you're thinking. Why the sudden colon blow of blog entries here on a dead President's Weekend? Well: 1) I was off for a week or so, so I've been blocked up, 2) we've got friggin' storms endlessly dumping Niagara Falls-like rain on us here, so we're stuck at home (I actually just came back from Ralph's to get a couple gallons of milk for the baby, and I got hit by aFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1109016372350839642005-02-21T12:06:00.000-08:002005-02-21T12:28:59.776-08:00 WEEKEND UPDATE, pt 4 (Fear & Loathing in CCI land -- cya Hunter)I hardly had time to mourn the expunging of Dax's streaming lecture on the PT trade, before a brand spanking new pdf document (click that if you want to download it) has appeared. The new PT guru is now somebody named JoAnne. Who is JoAnne? Beats the hell out of me. I don't even know most of the moderators anymore. The chatroom Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1108927407765246982005-02-20T11:23:00.000-08:002005-02-20T14:24:25.416-08:00 WEEKEND UPDATE, pt 3Woodie's unveiling a new WCCI logo for the big Anaheim National Conference + Trade-A-Long next month. Logos are a huge matter for corporations. Having the right logo and its savvy marketing placement can take the Club to the next level. Woodie and his Board are very aware of this, so they've had the design team in high gear for months. It's been a laborious process to come upFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1108862195580258562005-02-19T17:16:00.000-08:002005-02-19T17:42:37.620-08:00WEEKEND UPDATE, pt 2We've been having more torrential rainfall the past couple days. I just saw the 5 day forecast and it's all wet. The daily police car chases have been replaced on the news with sliding houses updates. Of course, that's what people get here for building their $2M houses on a pile of sand. The best thing about these increasingly frequent rainy winters in SoCal (perhaps the only Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1108845696305480532005-02-19T12:01:00.000-08:002005-02-19T17:43:38.320-08:00WEEKEND UPDATE, pt 1You should've been there. My wife was sworn in along with 4,800 other brand new US Citizens early last Friday. There had to have been over 10,000 guests there, too. It was actually a wonderful job of controlled chaos, and everything went off without a hitch. They repeated the whole thing and swore in another 4,800 in an afternoon session. I heard later that Alanis Morissette Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1107930663105573272005-02-08T21:57:00.000-08:002005-02-08T22:31:03.106-08:00No trading on Tuesday. As I said yesterday... did I mention it yesterday? Anyway, we're having a hectic week here and the madness started in earnest today. We're having the baby's 1st birthday party on Saturday. We've got a big room reserved at a restaurant. Part of the package was $400 for the birthday cake and balloon decorations. My wife thought that was hefty (sounds hefty to me, too) so she Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1107808809135575152005-02-07T13:40:00.000-08:002005-02-07T19:08:06.733-08:003 min YM - 3w, 2l, +17 ticks (will detail later - got some errands to run now)
All right, I'm back. We've got a ton of offline stuff happening over here this week, including my son's first birthday party on Saturday. My trading time is going to be sporadic (like today), but hopefully my results are sporadic (like today).
Things started out swell. 34 ema was at a sweet green angle from the Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1107808665251657902005-02-07T13:37:00.000-08:002005-02-07T13:37:18.936-08:00Daddy, how much money did you make today?
When I was a kid, first thing I said to my Mom when she returned home from work was "you got the newspaper?" I was a New York Post junkie. Little kid like me didn't know it was a fishwrap tabloid, just that it had a pretty good sports section. My mom would always get the Final Edition too so it had all the late boxscores from the West Coast, plus Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1107744365065880922005-02-06T18:46:00.000-08:002005-02-06T19:10:45.206-08:00
Here's my Barbara underwater background chart. Gonna run a replay on this after the game ends. I slapped on thefed's CCI-Bollinger Bands creation. Here's an example of his. The basic premise behind it (as I understand it to be) is that the CCI zeroline is not really stationary, therefore we see now a moving zeroline with some bollinger calculated bands around it. thefed does not use Woodie's Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1107561730947978872005-02-04T16:02:00.000-08:002005-02-04T16:46:12.663-08:00
Another week has come and gone, and again, I've barely anything to show for it. Second "scratch" week in a row. The year started out so promising, too. I even changed my background color again to match Barbara's underwater aquamarine look. Underwater isn't a good connotation in trading, is it? Well, I'll get a chart up over the weekend.
And now onto the good stuff...
Woodie announced yet Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1107291956293648652005-02-01T13:05:00.000-08:002005-02-01T17:24:20.236-08:00
YM 2 min - 1 trade/+8 ticks
Big doings in chartland. Switched the background to green again. The grey was getting to be a drab winter downer. Catchers and pitchers report to spring training in just two weeks. Can you smell the grass? Not that kind of grass, Cheech. Got rid of the green and red LSMA dots on the CCI zero line after the close today, too. I've been getting nuanced up the ass. I Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1107220666239940022005-01-31T16:51:00.000-08:002005-01-31T17:17:46.240-08:00No trading today. I took a relative to the airport early this morning. Do you do this with your family? Always giving them rides to and from the airport? Or do you just say "have a safe trip" and let them fend for themselves? Somehow I've become the airport taxi service for the family. It's because I'm the one who stays at home all day and doesn't have a "real job." At least if it's my Grandpa, Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1106944408716092412005-01-28T13:25:00.000-08:002005-01-28T12:33:28.716-08:00I'm taking Robin Dayne's advice to drink a ton of water to keep my brain hydrated and to ward off "trader's fog." Thank god, I installed the toilet in my office here. Drink a gallon, pee a gallon. My fog has lifted and now I can see clearly see that trading the YM sucks eggs today. I'm escaping early with 1 trade for 5 ticks. Had small, nominal losing days the past couple days, but slightly greenFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1106877698427066622005-01-27T17:48:00.000-08:002005-01-27T18:01:38.426-08:00I happened to catch a presentation by trading shrink, Robin Dayne, in Woodie's HC room this afternoon. I'm not going to link to her site, since she got a ton of free advertising already. Google her if interested. Actually, I don't believe she's an actual shrink, but rather a Tony Robbins guru that fell into mentoring daytraders with their mental problems. She mentioned a lot of Tony Robbins Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1106601412064382242005-01-24T13:16:00.000-08:002005-01-24T15:40:55.060-08:00
YM 2 min - 3 trades/+14 ticks
Nothing like stumbling out of the gate on a Monday morning. I just couldn't wake up for the opening bell. We're still playing flu tag here, and now the wife's got it. The baby woke up bawling at midnight and was inconsolable. I told the wife to go back to sleep and I'd take care of baby. An hour later, after bottle feeding and handing him 100 cherios one-by-one, Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1106258157267958912005-01-20T13:15:00.000-08:002005-01-20T14:05:23.190-08:00I just chilled the rest of the day. Papertraded 3 more winners in the afternoon and had some regrets that they weren't real trades, but what the hell. It was a nice relaxed day overall, came out ahead, and when it comes down to it, you gotta wish all days resulted like that.
For the 2nd time this week, we're having a birthday party for my grandpa. I guess when you're 85, you should get as many Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1106239437236319782005-01-20T08:43:00.000-08:002005-01-20T09:03:38.716-08:00
YM 2 min - 2 trades/+28 ticks
Didn't get much sleep again last night. Baby woke up at midnight and 5am for overnight feedings. I thought we were through with that crap at the 6 month mark when he started sleeping through the night. Maybe it's a growth spurt. He's been starting to stretch out now while his weight is holding steady, which is quite a relief for us. He was starting to be quite theFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1106168922855655072005-01-19T13:08:00.000-08:002005-01-19T17:58:43.616-08:00
Ah jeez, Mr. Shithead is fucking around with his charts again.
Health update: I think the baby is 100% again! His last problem has been a slight fever the past couple days, but the baby tylenol finally kicked in last night while we were watching the absolute last The Biggest Loser show (man, have they stretched that out) and suddenly the little guy was back to his usual happy self. He's alsoFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1106157055397514642005-01-19T09:50:00.000-08:002005-01-19T09:53:16.913-08:00
I figured out a way to stay glued to the screen while finishing off this intestinal bug. Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1105726999128986222005-01-14T09:54:00.000-08:002005-01-14T10:23:19.126-08:00I got boomeranged by the flu. Started Tuesday night. Just had the chills that wouldn't go away with an electric blanket on high, triple layered socks, a hat with flaps over my ears, and even gloves. Bodyaches and extreme fatigue followed as I slept in all of Wednesday into mid-Thursday. Now I've got the runs 5 minutes after I eat/drink anything, and I can't get back to sleep.
Good news is I've Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1105480777490308062005-01-11T13:59:00.000-08:002005-01-11T14:33:21.980-08:005 min YM - 2 trades/+20 ticks
Baby update: Little guy was holding his own, drinking a reduced amount of diluted formula yesterday. Wife told me he threw up again a little at 1 am (I've been sleeping on the sofa again). However, he seems nearly normal today. Back to his cheery self, crawling all about. Still on reduced formula. No solids yet. He did have a little diarrhea this morning (with Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1105391192026310202005-01-10T13:06:00.000-08:002005-01-10T14:09:14.156-08:005 min YM - no trades
Baby update: The baby continued vomiting everything up yesterday. We had to spoonfeed apple juice flavored pedialyte to try and keep him hydrated. He seemed better this morning. Just a bit pooped out, but he took everything we gave him (2 oz pedialyte, 2 oz water, 2 oz diluted formula) one hour apart and kept it down. His diaper was dry overnight and his soft spot was a Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1105303610124274162005-01-09T13:28:00.000-08:002005-01-09T12:46:50.123-08:00A new blog template for the new year!
I did it out of boredom. After being sick so long, I'm longing to run up a sunny mountain top and sing The Sound of Music ala Julie Andrews. Instead, I've got cabin fever as we've got this "Pineapple Express" storm just blasting us now. The rain's been insane this winter. Maybe I should move back to the East Coast. These rain soaked El Nino winters are Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1105126135049765912005-01-07T11:28:00.000-08:002005-01-07T11:37:14.533-08:00
Here's my approximation of Woodie's FibCCI. Just the 14 sma (which is the CCI part) and 14 sma envelope bands set at 38.2% (that's the fib part). That's pretty much it. Other stuff on the prices is just what I had on already: gb's 34 ema with colored slope and the Fisher Transform I keep fiddling with. Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1105121030398955262005-01-07T10:03:00.000-08:002005-01-07T10:14:35.763-08:00
First day Woodie is showing off his new "Fibonnacci CCI" as a moderator. At least it's the first time I'm seeing it (and my attendance record in chat has been rather spotty the past few weeks). This is pure price action stuff, obviously. Nobody's mentioned the conflict with Woodie's basic "we don't need no stinkin' prices" motto. However, Woodie's taken great umbrage at folks daring to compareFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1104882542056945152005-01-04T15:49:00.000-08:002005-01-04T16:27:13.380-08:00
Happy New Year! Remember as a kid in school, you'd still be accidentally writing the previous year all the time? Time went slow then. Now we know each year goes by faster than the last and it doesn't stop until we drop. Time's flying by so fucking fast now it's not funny. True story. I was getting a prescription filled for my baby last month and the guy kept saying my kid's insurance info Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1103728030592004132004-12-22T07:07:00.000-08:002004-12-22T07:07:10.593-08:00The Woodie room and community lost a dear member, known to all as Dr Famir in chat, who passed away yesterday. His sudden death has shocked everyone in the chatroom, and from all the heartfelt comments, it's obvious to all how many he touched on a personal level as a fellow trader and a doctor. He helped more than a few people get the best medical care when needed. Condolences to Dr Famir's Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1101841456342764152004-11-30T10:54:00.000-08:002004-11-30T11:04:16.343-08:00I'm alive. Been taking a time-out to work on rule #5. Apologies for not sourcing this list. I got it from an old email.
14 Common Sense Rules for Traders
1) No matter what you read about trading, until you use an approach and test it with your money on the line you will never learn how to trade. Paper Trading is NOT Trading!
2) If it were really possible to "Buy Low Sell High" or "Cut your Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1100551387944506262004-11-15T13:43:00.000-08:002004-11-15T12:56:46.680-08:00
Handy dandy reference for the plateau trade. I'm not adding this to the arsenal, as I don't even have a firm grip on the more basic setups. Woodie says he only looks for PTs with the trend.
Not much doing for me today. I had 7 papertrades (4-3-0) for $45 (-29.52 comm). My energy and concentration waned early.
Today's my 7th wedding anniversary. We're cutting out early for a celebratory lunch.Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1100282920265506102004-11-12T08:32:00.000-08:002004-11-12T10:08:40.266-08:00Back to the old grindstone.
Maui was great. The wedding was great. My parents decided to stay over here a couple days to spend more time with the baby, and they left last night. I'm still seriously sleep deprived and my body clock is all out of whack. I hope to catch up and sort all that out this weekend.
I ran my charts yesterday to catch up on data, and today is my first full day back. I'm Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1099334147680235762004-11-01T10:12:00.000-08:002004-11-01T10:35:47.680-08:00Just checking in. I was only able to watch the market for half the day last Thursday morning and Friday afternoon. Time's really crept up on us as my brother's wedding is suddenly coming up. We leave for Maui on Wednesday and return early the following Tuesday.
Had trouble logging into IB this morning with the java standalone platform I usually use. Others in chat had the same problem and Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098935458162372952004-10-27T20:50:00.000-07:002004-10-27T20:50:58.163-07:00Wow. It's the end of the world as we know it (but what the heck, I'm a Mets fan) and I feel fine. 18 years ago tonite, the Mets won game 7 over Boston for their last Championship. It hasn't been much fun being a Mets fan since, but it's always worse being a Red Sox fan... until this year and this amazing playoff run. Congrats to them! Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098908206272265842004-10-27T13:16:00.000-07:002004-10-27T13:56:35.073-07:00
Nearly a carbon copy setup as yesterday's springboard monster up day. Price bounced off the converging ma's along with a ZLR of converging CCIs to go long. I got it again, and this time I got more than a scalp, as I played it with a runner for +21 ticks total. Definitely got out of the runner too early, as it ran comfortably the rest of the day, but oh well. Gio moderated today and she nailed Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098833980230935622004-10-26T16:39:00.000-07:002004-10-26T17:44:37.450-07:00
Two of the old, old, old Woodie vets having a good laugh in chat afterhours today over the worst kept secret in chat -- that nobody does CCI the Pure Woodie way. Okay, I won't say nobody. There are some strays. Maybe NickTrader and then there's a bunch of newbies trying the priceless, only CCI, one timeframe way... until they give up.
In response to whether I've changed my approach (again?)...Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098833381694325192004-10-26T16:29:00.000-07:002004-10-26T16:29:41.693-07:003 minute YM. Bad confidence number and up, up away we went. Too much thinking today, and I wound up either flat and wishing I was in or going for a scalp short and knowing that was dumb. 7 weenie paper trades today (4-2-1) for 22 ticks, a third back in commissions. The big kahuna trade today was the first ZLR long with all CCI converging at the ZLX, Fish flipping up and price bouncing off Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098753595497986412004-10-25T18:19:00.000-07:002004-10-25T18:49:09.396-07:00
Goddamn, is the internet slooowww tonite or is it just me?
3 minute YM today. Only took 3 trades today on the YM: 3 winners for + 22 ticks. It was a fair trading day. In hindsight, a lot more swings looked tradable for good scalps, but I switched to 1 contract with a wide stop and no target so I could work on my "trade management" skills a bit. Didn't take much heat on the trades so I wasn't Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098554841720317772004-10-23T10:51:00.000-07:002004-10-23T11:07:21.720-07:00Been putting in extra screentime the past few days, getting used to the multiple timeframes and ascertaining appropriate target and stoploss levels.
I've been letting my life slide more and more off-kilter. The end result being, not only have I not been putting in the necessary screentime (esp on weekends), but I've also been lacking for necessary downtime and necessary quality family time. Not Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098305842642629782004-10-20T13:57:00.000-07:002004-10-20T15:02:33.536-07:00
5 min YM.
It never rains in Southern California... except when it does, as it is doing now and has been doing for the past 3-4 days. Last night totally sucked. It was the hardest rain yet, and we have this balcony railing outside the bedroom that gets hit by the gutter falloff. We had that ring ding cling clanging going on all night. The smoke alarm outside the kitchen started humming, too. I Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098232084309534712004-10-19T17:28:00.000-07:002004-10-19T18:54:37.140-07:00
Purple Haze YM 5 min chart tribute to Jimi Hendrix. I was listening to some Are You Experienced? today. Pretty cool looking. I may keep it for awhile.
Today was a picture perfect day for signals and follow through. It's days like this with solid CCI results that bring in 50 new people to the chatroom the next day. I tried the "Gio method" today, keying off the 2 and 5 min charts. The 2 min Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098128432688650102004-10-18T13:40:00.000-07:002004-10-18T13:17:51.346-07:00
2 minute YM
Gio will be giving a lecture on charts and her CCI techniques after the mkt close, so let me spit out my mkt day recap quickly. I sat out the first hour again. My serious problem of perpetual fatigue is still afflicting me. The YM seemed to have a better range than ER, so I concentrated on the YM (2 min & 5 min). I did 16 paper trades today (12-4-2). Wait, that's 18 trades. My 10 Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1098037106693528472004-10-17T10:23:00.000-07:002004-10-17T11:18:26.696-07:00I need to plow through all the Innersworth daily emails that I've been accumulating, so while I do that on this Sunday morning (the New York Giants have a bye-week), let me cut & paste things that strike my fancy or strike an inner chord:
Reduce Stress During the Trading Day - Exercise regularly. A rigorous exercise schedule will allow your body to let off pent up stressful energy. It is also a Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1097731882173411012004-10-13T22:31:00.000-07:002004-10-13T23:12:12.766-07:00
Have to get to bed here, but didn't want to forget to get this new Woodie chart up (for future reference). He mentioned late in the day that he was going to show some new chart feature thingy that he came up with -- for EXPERIENCED cci users ONLY, and this is it. As Woodie explained it, it's the cci zero line as the center band and the outer bands are fibonacci retracements. At first blush.it Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1097691700041720962004-10-13T11:21:00.000-07:002004-10-13T11:21:40.040-07:00A sweet mother-of-god yippie-ki-yay waterfall trade on the YM this afternoon. This is the 5 min chart (I also have a 2 min up), and this was the first time I saw my 3 signals line up. 1) the bline was ripe for a sling (the ribbons were in overbought territory while the baseline remained weak), 2) Fish (the Fisher Transform) flipped short, and 3) CCI signalled short (there's a questionable Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1097684254519802862004-10-13T09:17:00.000-07:002004-10-13T09:57:12.263-07:00
Never got back online yesterday. The flu vaccine shortage is hitting home. I took Grandpa (turning 84 in Dec) for his flu shot yesterday, and after waiting on line for a couple hours, we were told they were all out. My 8 month old son needs the vaccine too, and though we were told the shortage doesn't affect babies, our pediatrician has pushed back the date he's expecting to get it from the Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1097611895698061742004-10-12T13:11:00.000-07:002004-10-12T13:11:35.696-07:00Here's a capture of my latest charts frankensteinization. 1) The price candles are back, 2) Most of the CCI ribbon clutter is gone, 3) Buffy's 2X B-line was added on the bottom to observe for possible use as a CCI filter. More info on it + her full setup at: http://www.dacharts.org/archives/2Xbline/. Gotta run to the post office (it was closed yesterday, remember?) and run some other errands. Be Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1097531429416619462004-10-11T13:33:00.000-07:002004-10-11T14:50:29.416-07:00RIP Superman
Woke up to the news that Christopher Reeve was dead. I remember as tiny kids, my brother and I were in the jacuzzi at my grandparents condo out here in LA, when who strolls by? Superman! It couldn't have been that long after the first Superman movie came out, so this was really big, larger than life shit to see him. He was walking with some other people, maybe being given a tour ofFearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1097432407128496612004-10-10T11:20:00.000-07:002004-12-08T07:49:59.233-08:00Sorry, been on an unexpected hiatus. Haven't watched the mkts or looked at a chart for the past week. But I'll be home tonight and ready to hit the frontlines again Monday morning.
Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1096598902293670672004-09-30T19:48:00.000-07:002004-09-30T20:39:13.530-07:00
Not my charts, LOL. (though with my constant fiddling, I'm getting very near it).
September balances:
9/01/04: $5000
9/30/04: $4680.40
Down 6.39% for the month. Not quite how one envisions a month of "paper" trading. :) Well, it's onto better times and results in October. For the month, I can't say I've found the consistency I'm striving for (as to charts, narrowing down my specific setups, Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1096489649681007502004-09-29T13:27:00.000-07:002004-09-29T14:05:07.646-07:00
3 min ER. 11 trades (8-2-1) for $135 (-$50.08 comm).
Another not-so-bad day with decent trading opportunities. Gotta bear with me. Suddenly, I've got two farked up keys on my keyboard and they happen to be E and I. Half the time, they work fine, a quarter of the time, they print nothing, and the other quarter of the time, they get stuck and I have a bunch of eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's and Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114827.post-1096403603306041752004-09-28T13:33:00.000-07:002004-09-28T15:09:22.126-07:00
Today's ER 3 minute chart. 9 paper trades (6-2-1) for $220 (-$41.84 comm).
Price bars added again. The CCI looks like a melting painting. Those are the added ribbons mentioned yesterday. I also added an indicator that I found somewhere changes the 14 CCI green and red. I'm not clear yet on what the color change specifically indicates, but it's obviously some up/down thingy more indicative of Fearlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622159531045686264noreply@blogger.com1