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Lost in translation... a discretionary traders' memoir

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:57 pm
by Jalarupa
I have been around for what seems like a long time... I have taken lessons from the greats on this forum, tasted success and failure...

Now it seems its my time to be baptized in this fire of accountability to my actions, profitable or not.

So I'm going to try and discuss some form of process driven approach that allows me to skew odds of success in my favor of a positive outcome... In other words, trying to trade when conditions are most conducive to a successful outcome...

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My thinking is we can breakdown here...

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If we can end up in and stay in the green area then I feel like we going lower... Big time...

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I can imagine that the best place to be long is here... I'll be looking for That position but on the downside... This constraint will keep me out of the trade until such a time as that criteria is met...

Let's see what happens...?

Re: Lost in translation... a discretionary traders' memoir

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:07 pm
by LeMercenaire
Jalarupa wrote:I have been around for what seems like a long time... I have taken lessons from the greats on this forum, tasted success and failure...

Now it seems its my time to be baptized in this fire of accountability to my actions, profitable or not.

So I'm going to try and discuss some form of process driven approach that allows me to skew odds of success in my favor of a positive outcome... In other words, trying to trade when conditions are most conducive to a successful outcome...

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My thinking is we can breakdown here...

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If we can end up in and stay in the green area then I feel like we going lower... Big time...

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I can imagine that the best place to be long is here... I'll be looking for That position but on the downside... This constraint will keep me out of the trade until such a time as that criteria is met...

Let's see what happens...?


Good stuff! I look forward to following along.

Re: Lost in translation... a discretionary traders' memoir

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 4:11 am
by Jalarupa
Longer time frame price / trend dynamics...

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IF we breach bottom trendline in upward channel we need to see a pullback to trend; touch and release...

Here is another way of looking at it...

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Re: Lost in translation... a discretionary traders' memoir

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:49 am
by Jalarupa
Traded Short off an area which I feel 'works' targeting the Long Fat cat's and their stops...

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I'll look to add IF/WHEN we end up reaching my targets

Re: Lost in translation... a discretionary traders' memoir

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:37 pm
by Jalarupa
Jalarupa wrote:Longer time frame price / trend dynamics...

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IF we breach bottom trendline in upward channel we need to see a pullback to trend; touch and release...

Here is another way of looking at it...

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Re: Lost in translation... a discretionary traders' memoir

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:39 pm
by Jalarupa
Jalarupa wrote:I have been around for what seems like a long time... I have taken lessons from the greats on this forum, tasted success and failure...

Now it seems its my time to be baptized in this fire of accountability to my actions, profitable or not.

So I'm going to try and discuss some form of process driven approach that allows me to skew odds of success in my favor of a positive outcome... In other words, trying to trade when conditions are most conducive to a successful outcome...

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My thinking is we can breakdown here...

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If we can end up in and stay in the green area then I feel like we going lower... Big time...

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I can imagine that the best place to be long is here... I'll be looking for That position but on the downside... This constraint will keep me out of the trade until such a time as that criteria is met...

Let's see what happens...?


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Yellow horizontal lines were my initial targets for longs off cone lows (lower part of the range) - These subsequently became breakouts that failed their retest (zlines)

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None of the trend lines were changed (angle or otherwise from the initial post) - This goes to show that the bias was correct and this in all honesty was based off of the previous post's ascending wedge formation which is inherently bearish if the bottom trend is not respected or the top trend is not broken out of)