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if you have to worry about what other people think, I doubt anybody would have an opportunity to hate you.

Things It Takes Most of Us 50 years to learn: 1. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it. 2. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight-saving time. 3. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. 4. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers. 5. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is: age 11. 6. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." 17. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. 8. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." 9. The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them. 10. If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and he decides to deliver a message to humanity, he will NOT use as his messenger a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle or in some cases, really bad make-up too. 11. You should not confuse your career with your life. 12. A person who is nice to you but rude to a waiter or a janitor is not a nice person. 13. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. 14. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. 15. Your true friends love you, anyway. 16. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

There I was sitting at the bar staring at my drink when a large, trouble-making biker steps up next to me, grabs my drink and gulps it down in one swig. "Well, what'cha gonna do about it?" he says, menacingly, as I burst into tears. "Come on, man," the biker says, "I didn't think you'd CRY. I can`t stand to see a man crying." "This is the worst day of my life," I say. "I'm a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen and I don't have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. I found my old lady in bed with the gardener, and then my dog bit me." "So I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all, I buy a drink with my last tiny wad of cash, I drop a capsule in and sit here watching the poison dissolve. Then you, you TOTAL jack-ass, show up and drink the whole thing! But enough about me, how's your day going?"

A passenger in a taxi leaned over to ask the driver a question and tapped him on the shoulder. The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb, and stopped just inches from a large plate glass window. For a few moments everything was silent in the cab, and then the still shaking driver said, "I'm sorry but you scared the daylights out of me." The frightened passenger apologized to the driver and said he didn't realize a mere tap on the shoulder could frighten him so much. The driver replied, "No, no, I'm sorry, it's entirely my fault. Today is my first day driving a cab. I've been driving a hearse for the last 25 years."

The market is generous, it beams tons of signals about its intention to all the traders around the world without discrimination. Some traders can see signals in price, Some traders can see signals in volume, Some traders can see signals in volatilities, Some traders can see signals in spreads, Some traders can see signals in momentum, Some traders can see signals in bid and ask, Some traders can see signals in blocks, Some traders can see signals in foot prints, Some traders can see signals in delta, Some traders can see signals in profile, Some traders can see signals in time, Some traders can see signals in ticker, Some traders can see signals in harmonics, Some traders can see signals in averages, Some traders can see signals in stochastics, Some traders can see signals in relativities, Some traders can see signals in auctions, Some traders can see signals in astrology... don't worry about what other people see, you have to have your own theory of the market: you have to have your own theory of why the market goes up, and you have to have your own theory of why the market goes down. Your analysis is based on your theory. So, my question is, what is your theory?

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I am consulting the crystal ball to see if it can read your mind... will be back once connection is made.

There are people who switch from a "stock trading operation" to a "Happy and content future trader". There are people who switch from a "long-term consistent profitable stock trading operation" to a "losing-it-all" down and out future trader. I know a few of the first one (count with one hand). I know plenty of the second one. Sad, life is brutal.

can you copy and post what you see?

if you are profitable with stocks, why would you want to jeopardize a good thing? futures is a dog's breakfast don't let the glitter get you. go spend some time with your family use the extra money (while you still have it) for vacations enjoy today

re: Advice on Switching from Stocks to Futures Advice: don't switch.

You know you're Obsessed with Technical Analysis when... 1) Your 6-year-old pleads with you to take him to MACD's, and you ask him what the parameters are. 2) A social worker is telling you about a patient who has RSI, and you interrupt to ask her if she's read Wilder's book. (Then there's this patient with a history of volatility....) 3) An MA is no longer a university degree. 4) Trapped in traffic at a roundabout, you find yourself waiting for a "breakout". 5) You're constantly losing at tic-tac-toe because you keep employing a P&F strategy. 6) A party addict is describing his LSD trips, and you ask whether his most recent high took out the previous one. 7) You describe an uneventful Friday at the office as an "inside day". 8) The best that lingerie advertisements can do is start you thinking about double tops. 9) While viewing the night sky with your hot date, you find yourself mentally constructing trendlines through the stars. 10) Your wife tells you she has PMT, but you can't remember what indicator that is. 11) You start thinking about your marriage in terms of risk-reward. 12) You stop buying seedless grapes because you want more pips

can you draw a picture to show what you mean?

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no offense, I would give up everything to move out of London to live in Oz

Thank God for Facebook. ;-) but I still feel detached, isolated, and removed. I chat on FB with friends, but I do not talk to other traders. I have tried skype or paltalk or similar programs, but inevitably they became distractions, because they do not trade the same way I do. or they chat too much, (about their weekend, their children, their mother-in-law) or they are too nosy, (not that I don't share, but how much I made today is not something I want to discuss) or too much opinion on the market direction... so, trading is still a lonely existence.

.......... .......... nice buy signal

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