From the monthly archives:

September 2009

A Traders Philosophy

by ray on September 12, 2009

“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which we can also use our defects” Alexis De Tocqueville
Be sure to give yourself a competitive edge when you set out to trade these markets and protect your ass to the downside. Lets start with competitive edge. [...]

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Bearing Down on Detailing Patterns

by ray on September 10, 2009

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.” Anonymous
In order to mechanize my trading techniques I will now learn to describe the patterns I look for and learn to code them into the software. I will first use Metastock and learn to identify the sub-patterns that I used in [...]

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Trading Tools Selected

by ray on September 9, 2009

“What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal but to idealize the real” – Frederic H Hedge
I have been working on the data feed and related software packages that I will use. I will fill in the markets and techniques as we go but for now it is important to [...]

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Life Resume

by ray on September 8, 2009

I want to post what I will for now call a Life Resume. In the process of this site I will update this and detail some of the entries but for now it is a place to start:
Life Resume
Nov 6, 1946 Born to Captola and Floyd Ward in Jackson, Mississippi
1949-1951 Tokyo, Japan [...]

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Getting Started

by ray on September 8, 2009

To get this project underway and finance the process I will redesign the market trading system that I used in the past.  Years ago I day traded several markets with some success but the stress caused me to quit.   I traded five minute charts that required me to be available all day long and be [...]

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