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that email no worky
bout time you re-surfaced.
Send me an email. I lost everything in my address book... and then I'll tell you why.
I tried to watch it but found the urge to shoot the TV was overwhelming... had to continue flipping.
McCain lost the don't talk to Iran argument... that much I did see.
The continued "Therefore's" sounded like aimless rambling to me.
I have that exact same situation.
A shade over two and just non-stop 14 hours a day.
Yeah exactly.
The world bankers rule the world and that's who the news is supposed to surprise?
Not likely.
That's why I get out before news hits.
I saw a quote somewhere about the smartest man not being able to predict the news but even a dumb guy can predict a chart.. Something to that effect anyways.
Actually I think it was either Cap or EW who devised a hedging strategy of straddling a pair just before news hit and dropping the loser quick and riding the winner.
Seemed like a plausible plan, though I never tried it.
Glance used to keep up with the news pretty well.
I just watch the calendar and make sure I'm out before anything hits.
I'm not sure anyone is swooft enough to predict what happens after any financial news comes out.
Sometimes it seems like great news and the pair plummets.
Others it sounds like horrible news and the damned thing flies.
Ok, just wondering.
You made it almost sound as if you were on a patriotic mission.
Must have read it wrong.
carry on.
Not entirely sure what you're hoping to accomplish?
You trade forex to strengthen the U.S.?
Maybe you could elaborate.
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LOL.. Spot on
Surprised it's only a billion.. but I guess demand is somewhat less since everyone knows they are a scam at this point.
He's trying to tell you to learn to time your entries and exits more precisely by using the different time frames on the charts.
And he's absolutely correct.
If you want to know the long term trend then use the monthly chart... then work your way down to see more closely where you are in that trend.
Just because the monthly chart signals a continuation, doesn't mean you should just jump in.
Since we play with enormous margin we need to time our entries with laser precision.
First look at the monthly.. then look at the weekly.. then the daily.. then the three hour.. then the hourly.. and on down to the five minute.
What you are looking for is an intrend reversal on the five minute and a continuation on the hourly.
This is usually a pretty sure fire way of hitting trades that you don't have to white knuckle through for two hours.
Slow down when passing Wilkes Barre and give 'em the finger for me.
I miss the climate up there.. quite a few friends too.
Actually I rely completely on just a few things.
I hvae on my chart the RSI, slow stoch and MACD.
I combine those three with price patterns to show where in the trend the current price is.
Then I bounce in and out within that trend.
Often times I find myself being a counter trend player.
But my reliance on indicators is new for me, compared to my stock trading days.
I used to rely primarily on chart formations.. pennants and wedges being some of my favorites, But here in forex I have found that those formations almost never really happen.. and when they do they are rarely indicative of a predictable move.
Oh and almost forgot... Trend Lines.. I love trend lines.. I believe in them whole heartedly... Give me a trendline over a moving average any day.
Hey Zav, do you have any luck with patterns in forex?
I found that everytime I saw what I knew from stocks to be a pattern.. it did the opposite.
Pennants.. wedges.. ascending triangles.. all of them seemed fallible in forex.
I resorted to indicators.. which oddly enough I found to be useless in stocks.
Enjoying the vacation I see.
Have fun and good luck old friend.
In an effort to distract us all from what is erratic Sunday trading.
Here is a bit of happy news for all us trekkies out there.
Warp Drive Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light
Eric Bland, Discovery News
July 28, 2008 -- It is possible to travel faster than light. You just wouldn't travel faster than light.
Seems strange, but by manipulating extra dimensions with astronomical amounts of energy, two Baylor University physicists have outlined how a faster-than-light engine, or warp drive, could be created that would bend but not break the laws of physics.
"We think we can create an effective warp drive, based on general relatively and string theory," said Gerald Cleaver, coauthor of the paper that recently appeared on the preprint server ArXiv.org
The warp engine is based on a design first proposed in1994 by Michael Alcubierre. The Alcubierre drive, as it's known, involves expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship. The ship would rest in between the expanding and shrinking space-time, essentially surfing down the side of the bubble.
The tricky part is that the ship wouldn't actually move; space itself would move underneath the stationary spacecraft. A beam of light next to the ship would still zoom away, same as it always does, but a beam of light far from the ship would be left behind.
That means that the ship would arrive at its destination faster than a beam of light traveling the same distance, but without violating Einstein's relativity, which says that it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light, since the ship itself isn't actually moving.
The fabric of space has moved faster than light before, says Cleaver, right after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded faster than the speed of light.
"We're recreating the inflationary period of the universe behind the ship," said Cleaver.
While the theory rests on relatively firm ground, the next question is how do you expand space behind the ship and contract it in front of the ship?
Cleaver and Richard Obousy, the other coauthor, propose manipulating the 11th dimension, a special theoretical construct of m-theory (the offspring of string theory), to create the bubble the ship would surf down.
If the 11th dimension could be shrunk behind the ship it would create a bubble of dark energy, the same dark energy that is causing the universe to speed up as time goes on. Expanding the 11th dimension in front of the ship would eventually cause it to decrease, although two separate steps are required.
Exactly how the 11th dimension would be expanded and shrunk is still unknown.
"These calculations are based on some arbitrary advance in technology or some alien technology that would let us manipulate the extra dimension," said Cleaver.
What the scientists were able to estimate was the amount of energy necessary, if the technology was available, to change these dimensions: about 10^45 joules.
"That's about the amount of energy you'd get if you converted the entire mass of Jupiter into pure energy via E = mc^2," said Cleaver, an energy far beyond anything humanity can currently envision creating.
While the challenges to creating a warp drive are quite formidable, the concept is intriguing, says Tufts University theoretical physicist Lawrence Ford.
"If there are extra dimensions and we could manipulate them, that would open up all sorts of exciting possibilities," said Ford.
"I don't see this leading immediately to a warp drive, but I could see it leading to other interesting possibilities in basic scientific research," said Ford.
Cleaver agrees that the creation of a real warp drive is still far away.
"Warp drive isn't doable now, and probably won't be for the next several millenia," said Cleaver.
If you watch any of the 24/7's market experts you will soon see that all they are and all they do is hype horrible news.
And more accurately, they hype any counter-trend move as sure sign of heavens wrath or forgiveness.
Speak about equities here; I can't tell you how many times I've seen one of these seven figure morons proclaiming the enormity of some monster 100 point move in the dow based off some meaningless BS news.
And using that move to further an obvious agenda of keeping the people alarmed at all times.
Since I'm the mildly agitatable sort of bloke, and I don't have dollars for a new TV every sunday.
I don't watch them anymore.
In fact I haven't watched the news in... jeeze, gotta be a year by now.
It's all a production of alarm bell ringing aimed at keeping people scared and tuned in.
If it was really that important of a news alert... They wouldn't do a commercial just before it airs and right after it is announced.
Oh.. and as a side note:
Both linux and Firefox are telling me that agitatable is not really a word.
I don't f@#$^&%$g care... I like it and I'm using it.
Well gee I feel @#^$% better now thanks
Good to see you around... been a while.
Shocking as it is.. I DID miss it.
This is a moment I had feared for.. well about 35 years now..
And it has happened.
The fault was not yours.
It was much more than a feeble attempt.
It was flawlessly delivered by you and ineptly dropped by me.
I guess it's all downhill from here.
He's been out for a month or so.
Dunno exactly when he's coming back.
He's pretty busy with the move, plus vacation.
Talked to him last week and all seemed to be going well.
He's planning on doing some traveling.. hence the abroad statement.
Glance is abroad at the moment with a move and a bit of a vacation.
Give him a little bit and he'll be back stronger than ever.
Lava kinda evaporated about a year ago I guess.
I think you just did.
1st thing is open a practice account with oanda.
2nd is to empty that account... NOT a real one.
3rd is focus more than you ever have on learning everything you can about charting.
4th is... happiness.
You'll never look back at your penny days without a giddy grin on your mug.
And ask questions...
Millions if need be.
Not sure, been a while, though that looks like a decent site.
Yeah there was a site me and Glance came across a year or two ago.
Forget what the url is now, but that's how we found Oanda.
Oanda is a different broker.
He's speaking of forex.com... owned by gain LLC
They had a class action lawsuit against them a year or so ago.. lost it too from what I remember.
Gotta watch those high leverage brokers.. gotta figure they are betting against you.
They have already been sued for this exact thing.
They did it to me a variety of times.
Untill I dropped them.
I already gave up on it and vowed to never look back.
But you're right... Visene in a drink is awfully tempting.
LOL @ stepmonster spending all your inheritance.
Got one of those myself.
Yup, that's one of the big things I don't miss.
How hard is it to learn when all that is out there is either intentionally dishonest or perpetually incorrect?
Learning anything real over there is like running in quicksand.
Gap: A term used by technicians to describe a jump or drop in prices; i.e., prices skipped a trading range. Gaps are usually filled at a later date.(The last bit is a bit of misconception from the penny world)
http://www.thectr.com/glossaries/english.php#Gap
Go with the gap on Sundays is what I've found for the most part.
Other than that it's real slow and choppy till the wee hours.
I initially opened this board and picked this stock because of the very long term chart.
This one seems to go cold then really hot for a few years.
Three years late, but glad to see it moving finally.
Twk, I'm starting to look into the same options.
Gas just hit a national average of $4.00 today.
This country is in for some really hard times.
This will fix you right up.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Interfered with the receiver circuitry.
It ran like a scalded dog for a second.
Yup she turns two on thursday next week.
I just spent the last hour wiring a cheap r/c car made for two AA batteries to take a 9V :D
Say it with me now:
If Yaint cheaten, Yaint tryin.
Interesting point.
Lemme digest that while
me and the kid race our new r/c cars
and I'll be back to tell you why you're wrong.