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zdo

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  1. https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/ufo-disclosure-the-insider-game-of-reliable-sources/ I must do my part to prepare you for objects ... just sayin'
  2. Year end just saying... In fx, setting up for BO trades in 8 x’s on USD ( and a few correlates) Still adding shorts to treasuries near/on the handles Completely out of btc now...except for a couple btfd dabbles in zcoin, stratis, etc, trading ETH almost exclusively now As noted, ‘hedge’ stop on CL longs trailing ~ 2.5 handles below CLG18 Short session this morning and done for the year in ndxs... 5 shorts in NQ, 2 in YM, 3 in ES ... all easy winners (... and, while not these are not ‘trades’, most importantly - still moving from fiats to silver ....ion...) Year end summary: It has been nice participating in the world’s greatest bubble in everything for all these years... just sayin . Wishing all TL members a wonderful and prosperous new year. zdo
  3. Hussman Hussman Hussman Hussman Hussman
  4. Back to work... to ‘hedge’ CLV18 longs, incrementing trailing stop .10 -.30 per day with CLG18 contracts. Currently they trail about 2.50 under yesterday’s CLG18 lows ... the current 'joke' around here is what how much smaller, unleveraged positions in btc have absolutely kicked this position's ass the whole way through... :missy:
  5. Who owns the UFO narrative? Would someone please help and advise me on how to participate in the latest wave of the ufo psyop? I want to help analyze the metal from an alien ship I want to study how they might spread biological ‘threats’ thanks zdo
  6. Some end of year thoughts on trading using priceseries * Consciously, ‘PAv’ traders are categorically NOT able to trade with oscillators (/ indicators). (Note that ‘consciously’ part - because unconsciously every single one of them is creating and using ‘indicators’ in the background.) Real oscillators traders can categorically NOT (consciously) trade with PA. (Note that ‘consciously’ part - because unconsciously every single one of them is attempting to process PA on the fly.) Point is - Both modes are always going / functioning. “Find your own way” zdo. Find out which one you are best suited for, make that one dominant and develop it that fully... Let the other one be recessive. If you’re a PA trader, don’t fool yourself into total rejection of oscillators. And by the same token, if you’re an oscillators trader, don’t be swayed by the preaching of PA traders to completely exclude oscillators trading. Find out which one you are best suited for, develop that fully... and then you might be free to consciously include and accommodate certain aspects from the other one. ... PA traders do notice and repeatedly announce an important ‘weakness’ of indicators. Stock indicators don’t ‘work’. :rofl: Yep, statistically out the box at best they produce ( with ‘costs, a slightly negative) wash... ie the ‘sample runs’ where they outperform do not offset the ‘sample runs’ where they underperform, etc. ** ... The key word here is “stock”. There are (only?) three ways to overcome this weakness of stock indicators. 1 ‘Skew’ the indicator calculations to match the ‘slope’ (and travel, etc) of the auctions. 2 Learn to ‘wetware skew’ the reading of the indicator to match the ‘slope’ (etc) of the auctions. 3 Type the auctions to know when and when NOT to apply an indicator ie You got to know when and how to "harm squiggly lines" (sorry TRO for appropriating your apt phrase... ) Wishing all ya'll wonderful holidays and a happy solstice in exactly one minute !!!! zdo *instead of non price / fundamental / narrative information **:haha: Unfortunately, PA traders can't go about as readily acknowledging the equivalent real world statistics of 'out the box' PA... ie don't get it that both modes are always going / functioning.
  7. A gentle and sweet waking up... of your paranoia Bitcoin as a monetary policy tool | Zero Hedge meanwhile Everyone is announcing Bitcoin but no one is doing - it's all vapor
  8. Mitsubishi has been exposed... I’m just sayin’ How Government Agents Troll Online to Divide and Confuse | The Daily Bell ;);) :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
  9. Took me less than 1 minute to skim this article. This is the kind of sht I love to skim... just sayin Drain the Swamp, or Spread the Swamp? Lawmakers Pitch Relocating Agency Headquarters | The Daily Bell
  10. CH Smith I’m thinking if bitcoin is reflective of trust in the future value of fiat currencies, then it is reflective of trust in the future value of current sovereign fiat currencies. But - it does not reflect a questioning of the general value of fiat currencies at all. It is a fiat currency! It’s just not generated via debt as the centralized ‘fiats’ are. It’s generated by, in essence, a lotto. Beyond that it is backed by nothing but ‘trust’ just like all the other ‘fiats’ In a few years, as we approach ‘all’ the btc being mined, there will be a push to ‘allow’ more quantity, - not because of btc’s intrinsic value but just to keep the system going and salient in the money world... just like the current sovereign fiats ... ... BTC by BTC, BTC's 'decay'...
  11. ?: Could BTC stand up to a quantum attack? more importantly ?: Could an exchange (or all of the exchanges) stand up to a quantum attack?
  12. https://www.thenation.com/article/how-many-wars-is-the-us-really-fighting/ https://merryjane.com/news/justice-department-reminds-cannabis-businesses-that-they-cant-file-bankruptcy CIA Agent Confesses On Deathbed: ?We Blew Up WTC7 On 9/11? | Pop News Magazine https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-06-lock-them-up-arrest-james-comey-robert-mueller-peter-strzok-and-other-swamp-creatures.html https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11493/europe-two-state-solution https://mises.org/wire/why-deep-state-war-trump
  13. Let’s test the goog weed out. How long will this stay up? https://youtu.be/SMNFQ4tLRFc
  14. 10,000 ? 10,000 ??? YouTube Hires 10,000 Staff To Weed Out 'Extremist' Content | Zero Hedge msm https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/the-collapse-of-media-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ just sayin’
  15. We all agree that the world money system is on the right track, right? All is well - as long as antarctica doesn't blow This whole business of exchanging debt chits for debt chits is going to work out just fine. The laws that obligate us to treat the Fed’s liabilities as if they were money benefits everyone the world over... or maybe not... Of Two Minds - The Cost Basis of our Economy is Spiraling Out of Control
  16. Czarina, I disagree. FX trading does not require an "іn-depth knowledge оf economic developments іn thе international markets аѕ wеll аѕ domestic markets". One can do just fine with a host of different technical methods. One can do just fine with directional correlations and travel correlations. ... all without considering economic developments themselves or narratives about them.
  17. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113504/youre-just-not-prepared-what%E2%80%99s-coming
  18. The mind world gone to extremes Aldous_Huxley
  19. Re: Comfort zone was not an issue. The flow was akin to my early glory days with the big SP car in the mid 80’s so I was grinning a whole bunch. Very little pain. For me, it was the perfect amount of stress... much less stress than trying to get a few ticks out of sideways action. Using the cage fighting metaphor, it’s ground and pound time and I’m going to pound with longs and shorts until they pull me off. Unequivocating retrace-free opportunities like this come along rarely and within seconds of my MarketTyping going ‘parabolic’ the middle of last week, I implemented the ‘dumbest’ manual systems I have... and will continue doing it day in and day out until it’s over. ( A MA is not what I’m using but btw, in this particular environment, even a simple moving average would work - not quite perfectly, but it would work! ie there’s a time and place for every trading method known to man... with no apologies to the method purists and sect imams). For the first time in years, last week I manually outperformed my automated systems 3 days in a row. (but I been thanking the lord for it for the overnights when I’m not around) ... the extraordinary madness of crowds ? ...just don’t get attached to it because the ‘rhythm’ will change. In fact it was already starting to fade Friday afternoon ... 'back and fill' etc. etc starting to show back up,...so...I may start this Monday morning in this ‘dumbest’ mode, but would not be surprised if by the afternoon I’m be back to more complex, ‘risks and probabilities considered’, filtered, etc etc selective methods of entry and exit,... The kind of day trading you’re doing is like cage fighting, you better take all opportunites to strike (or whatever ). Yes, you can take a few seconds off here and there, or even a whole round off, but if you take more than that ‘off’ - you lose points, you miss making points, you lose the rounds, and you lose the fight. ie If you ‘retire’ before the ‘day’ is over, you lose the fight Period. again...here’s WHY you might want to focus on developing resilience !! BECAUSE!!!! --- You don’t know which entries will be washes or losses. You don’t know which ones will make good profit. You don’t know which ones will make exceptional profits. That’s why I been recommending ways for you to get exposure to as many of them as possible and ultimately to all of them - all day long. Basically I’m advising you to work on Gam and much as you do game... Ideally, a signal - your pre-determined criteria for your minimum signal quality allowable - should always be ‘easy’ for you to see, ie it should take very little ‘yes no maybe what if thinking’ to see whether the current auctions reach your minimum signal quality, and if they do, you pull the trigger - over and over all day long. 90% + of those who read this will immediately jump to the easy conclusion that I’m advising you to develop a sink-or-swim bootcamp mentality of “tough it out or go home” type of toughness. Wrong! Let’s define toughness as your capability to resist extreme stress - then forget about toughness for now. Let’s define Resilience as your capabilities to recover from excessive stress - and I’m advising you to start right where you are and develop ‘resilience’. We need sufficient stress to survive. More ‘good stress’ , aka Eustress, is good, but there is a certain point past which any additional stressor pushes you into distress. ... discretionary trading IS the art of eustress. Almost daily your posts acknowledge when you’ve gone ‘into the shape of excessive stress reaction' and you recognize an incomplete quality in the cognitive chain aspect of your performance ... For examples, just look at the last sentence of 60-70% of your posts. Let’s honor that you currently recognize when your form is collapsing and you stop. I’m advising you to suspend your predispositions about your performance possibilities and your criticisms of individual trades and to next consider developing ‘resilience’. Instead of resting until the next morning - which is not real recovery btw - I’m suggesting you begin working to recover back to your ‘form’ as soon as it is lost - same day. While the CNS cannot differentiate between types of conflict stressors (physical distress, occupational, social, interpersonal, intrapersonal, financial, familial, etc, etc.) it is quite the expert at differentiating the degree (the ‘volume’ of the stress? That way we’re still on wackoff topic :rofl:... anyways ...) and as you reach thresholds of total stress, sets of predictable patterns of internal events and external behaviors manifest. At those (actually quite discrete) levels, progressively one‘s cognitive processing deteriorates, perception ‘narrows’ / partially shuts down, vigilance spirals to either hyper or hypo, and ‘irrational’ content and behavior emerges, etc. etc. Sets of quite discrete physical reactions lead and then accompany the above listed compromised cognitive functioning Just like in a kinetic chain - jumping, sprinting, striking, throwing, whatever - when one part of the kinetic chain tires and can no longer perform with precision, the quality of the whole chain breaks down... Time’s up for now... Let’s take this to PM’s or another thread. The knockoff knwykoff topic nazi hovers and other readers may be fascinated for a moment but their real levels of interest for this stuff is low
  20. Gam Do you use volume spikes to lighten up or get out of trades? I may not have posted it directly in your thread but I did post stuff recently about keep on taking every signal and trigger... that's the only way to beat back the results of trades like your first one yesterday. “He who recovers fastest wins.” Example I’ve made 14 reverses (now 15) in the YM in the last 8 minutes ... 7 of them were near washes (started writing this post at ~ 11:34 )... hth
  21. Blockchain and the Bear: Why Russia has fallen for fintech | Crypto Insider . | Safehaven.com https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywnmkk/coinbase-irs-14000-bitcoin-tax
  22. Derek, I think you may have to buy the book. The PDF you posted is cropped on the right after ~30 chars so who knows what else may be missing... What happens when you run your "If (IntPortion(.5*N))>Filt then Convolution[N]=(1+ExpValue(N));" version? 'Filt' is a function call. You'd have to have the code for that to get this working... Have you found complete .pla code for this? Your missing code and the Filt function might be an easy translation Here is a contact who may be able to get you all the original code... He no longer uses TS so emphasis on may be John Ehlers code links hth zdo
  23. re: Zup, that’s cold - but firmly grounded. Please note that post was ‘fake news’ at its worst. I substituted the word ‘abortion’ for every occurrence of ‘suicide’ in the original piece just to push buttons... and I guess the same 'selection' biz could be applied to suicide too... I was having too much fun... The real point of the post is that FakeBook can have you locked up for your posted content https://www.activistpost.com/2017/11/facebooks-new-suicide-detection-put-innocent-people-behind-bars.html
  24. Andrew Klavan Andrew Napolitano
  25. Chris You’ve profiled a bunch of traders right? Have you written an article titled something like “There is Nothing Special About You” ? Back in the day I made it a point to share some face time and screen time (or floor time) with some of the best (and best known) traders and managers of that era... and - even though their performance and income was anything but ‘ordinary/loser trading’ - in all almost cases these guys experienced themselves and carried themselves as quite ordinary. ... and paradoxically, almost all of them acknowledged living under the influence of ‘dopamine’, 'testosterone' , etc etc (btw there were exceptions to this) ...Historically, my best trading runs are not accompanied by ‘positivity’ or ‘confidence’... or content that I am special... Actually, it’s my experience that inflating into ‘special’ is a pretty good way to end a discretionary run...rules, being present and aware, risk/loss control, etc. drop below the required threshold of importance... etc etc (:haha: ... please end the article with quotes from 1 Chris Hate 2 Mitsubishi 3 CrazyCzarina and 4 Chris Tate )
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