Lee, look at those 8-week ma averages.
...<just trade in the direction that seems best.> a shorterm traders chances are , if he is a winner, is 55% chance of correct versus being wrong.
And if your really top notch 60%.
The VAST majority that trade whatever way they think/feel is the best get wiped out, you have got to have criteria, methodology, a system, whatever.
You are a chartist, that should mean you are trading by some system rather than what you think "seems" best---so how can you say what you just did???? That would mean you believe in dart-boarding more than a charting--no????? Where is my logic amiss??:)
Statistical fact based on a brokerages study of their new traders, 90% fail, badly( they gave each a 50,000 dollar stake). This firm would hire a guy if he could breakeven or make profits after one year of trading.
Like i say you have got to love it:) To day trade, that is, it is hard work.
gd---i am going back to Bed:) We are going to have a rare rare June Nor'Easter--i am thinking we are going to have one hell of a hurricane year---weather has been "kicking butt" for quite sometime(i mean all over the much of the USA.)
He played his video game night and day.
The MAZE of Death.
But that is the game we all are in, the trick, don't believe it.Get above it all and imagine nothing is what it seems.Kill the machine.otraque