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Too pessimistic ?? The Sky Is Falling, It Is Time To Panic And The U.S. Economy Has Fallen And It Can’t Get Up

"Still, America's "exorbitant privilege" of never having to settle its trade deficit in anything but its own currency isn't a benefit that China, or the Eurozone, looks too keen to enjoy for themselves any time soon. Both regions continue to seek export growth, and so neither would welcome the exchange-rate rise which would come with being the monetary lynchpin." Adran Ash Are these the world's four worst currencies? JPY USD EUR CNY

TimeStamp 8:45 ...and out! .... except for a couple of runners...

COMEX Registered Silver Bullion Inventories Fall Sharp 38.5% in Two Weeks ? Risk of COMEX Silver Default Remains | zero hedge ... and some fun in Fiatville http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-can-we-please-stop-pretending-gdp-growing Does the US gov't as a system have Anosognosia ???

re: "I'm primarily using volume spread analysis" and "He swears by "researching" these often fictitious companies who do nothing but sell shares on the backs of grandiose stories or align themselves with promoters..." It’s not likely – but every now and then someone comes along who is better at ‘Tom Williamszing’ that even Tom Williams was. That’s what it takes to thrive at penny stocks and that may be the case with your friend’s “research” ing… But again, not likely. Especially if he “insisted I "get into" this stock with him” Odds are vastly with Tams re penny stock craps. Anyways, what traits and strengths do you admire in your friend? What could you do to be even better at vsa?

MF, ever look at Ashraf Laidi : Speculators' Futures FX Positions ?

First, have you read Rande Howell’s book? If you don’t come to more awareness of 1 how your fears are ‘organized’ (for lack of a better term) and 2 how your ‘self image’ (another for lack of a better term) is regulating your performance – both outside of your awareness – it really doesn’t matter how much you believe in your edge (or not) re” “just passing up a perfectly viable trade because I'm being overly cautious” Paraphrasing Mark Douglas --- Outside awareness again, every ‘red’ (or potential ‘in the red’) can re stimulate any and every uncleared defeat, defect, desertion, deprivation you’ve ever experienced (or even imagined ‘correctly’) Without a healthy you, your time and effort is 'nothing', your edge is 'nothing'. re: “Ever since then it's become this battle of either holding too long because of previously missed opportunities, not holding long enough, or just passing up a perfectly viability trade because I'm being overly cautious.” Finally something more practical - For every edge, there is a distribution of results. For every distribution of results, there is an adequate scaling (out - in this case) schema I sincerely hope I have frustrated you even more … just right

... and now to real time "trade" / commerce A Minsk Moment Update: Belarus Hyperinflation Prompts Government To Freeze Food Prices | zero hedge "Show Me the Fractal!" Me 2 Edit "I am really not that big a sceptic, honest "

More non - ‘lab’ reading Socionomics Institute “robust fractal” = ~ “anything goes fractal” ? // Lab work Whispers from the Edge of the Rainforest: Prechter Vs Schiff (Deflation vs Inflation) Chart Of The Day: Currency Devaluation, Old School Style | zero hedge Charting The Non-Linearity Of Hyperinflation, And Predicting America's Future Courtesy Of Ancient History | zero hedge Exercise: Did you find the fractals?

Elliott Wave Principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia state of the f art Elliott Wave Fractals Since I personally have not found the 'markets' to be "as above so below" I get suspicious anytime I hear the term used by traders, etc. It is a mathematical term - and its application to markets and analysis is as limited as the application of some other mathematical stuff like parametric distributions etc... ie I don't think you'll really find what a fractal looks like by looking at charts and other representations of markets

TN ( and Rande) Ditto that question. "measurable " is a pivotal word in the ??? When I observe myself, first comes a clear break between paternal lineage / scripts and maternal lineage / scripts. Further, maternal grandfather had most directed, conscious impacts (negatives). Paternal grandfather was born with a silver spoon in his mouth but he was more remote and a mystery to me ... Then, the grandmothers, (and aunts and uncles family friends, etc that I was impacted by as a child) lives and unlived lives etc... And we haven't even gotten to the 'sins of the fathers' many generations ago... And... whether related to this lineage business or not, it seems to me as if one of several / many narratives holds sway for a while then fades and another goes into ascendency.. sometimes it's a fast cycle with overnight type changes and other times one is in for months, even years... ??? good question Ya'll have a great weekend. zdo

For me Bikram definitely = group Prasara definitely = alone

Rande, Can one have a variable ‘financial narrative’? Can one have multiple ‘financial narratives’? thx. zdo

MFX, Haven't tried butter. Hm?... have always just gone with light olive oil. Don't like anything interfering with the pinenut and basil flavors . (I do use the hard stuff, evo, in the red ital. dishes, like the recipe you're talking about, etc.) iws, yep the flowers, buds, and tiny leaves bring the flavor without the bite that mature leaves have...

BF, re: "...An impulse wave now becomes two 'bullish' ABCD's in a row... " How do you find the demarcation btwn the two 'bullish' ABCD's ? thx zdo ps Maybe we should move this conversation to a new 'Most basic building blocks' thread

What’s your recipe? We like it with way too many pinenuts, too much olive oil, an average amount of parmesan, and less than an average amount of fresh picked basil buds, flowers, and tiny leaves (instead of regular sized basil leaves), and a short squeeze of lemon… yum ...decadence!

Rande, re "80% of any decision made is based on implicit emotion rather than explicit emotion " If you have time, please expand or provide references for how you are using the words implicit and explicit. Is it just code for emotions un conscious of and emotions conscious of ? etc. Thx.

TradeStation always deserves at least a trial... hth

BF, Interesting...thx Ok, I'll bite - what does the smallest building block / wavelet look like? zdo

SIUYA, This looked more like a reply to Response #144 at Trading Chaos by Bill Williams - Page 2 | Trade2Win Forums than to "Then one day it hit me ..."

Hedge Farm! The Doomsday Food Price Scenario Turning Hedgies into Survivalists | The New York Observer Hopefully QE3 will be more 'fun' to trade than was QE2... QE2 was a no brainer... buy PM's For the long run, I'm buying light factory space in rural southeast... using low leverage... goodbye world 6 pm

Thanks. Yep he does have some great stuff on what can loosely be put under the 'time stop' heading that I had forgotten about... Do you think these points you mentioned can be applied to all methods or systems ubiquitously?

Callahan, Each of the posts above addresses one of the devils/aspects with this issue and there are several more not yet mentioned. One of them has got you by the nuts, a couple others stand ready to punch you in the guts, and several are messing with your neurons... Maybe call Rande Howell... or at least read his book. (Just an idea - ie have no financial interests or affilations...) hth zdo

phantom, (Even though thousands may read it and even thousands yap at you about it) Again, I’d ask you to consider writing as if just one person is really listening and benefiting from your work… and just ignore hecklers and others who can only respond with disrespect for methods not on the same wavelengths as their own… most of them have been hurt before... Other suggestions – > Start a blog on TL or elsewhere. Feedback in general, but esp. neg. feedback, tends to drop off considerably. > Open same kind of thread over on ET or T2W and see what happens… this bunch here will suddenly start to seem as reverent as a bunch of long bearded old rabbi’s… > Request that posters on your thread only ask questions and post images of realtime setup examples of your stuff… and if they want to challenge, confront, or disagree they can start a separate 'bash the phantom' thread. > Start a new thread... move the good stuff from this one over... you might get weeks before someone starts up crap... All the best. zdo

Was it the real phantom or an imposter.? Would the real phantom give up so easily? Comics and cartoons | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle //// phantom, Have you considered approaching this as if you have an audience of only one trader (not 100k)? ... and s/he hasn't posted/said a peep yet?