Great stuff Spinner - this is a great example of self orientated action talk that beats the negative and wishy washy thoughts from 'Hyde' the internal voice that really does all the damage. Keeping 'Hyde' in check should be every traders' main ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

GREAT STUFF SIMPLEMAN! Well done on the stats too - proves you are able to critically analyse your trading records to good effect. Also proves their worth! Bravo!

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Thanks Strat and Alexandra, the time off has indeed allowed me to focus. I only offer my ramblings to others so that they may jump start their trading career and not have to lose too much capital finding their feet.

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

I've read many, probably too many books on trading and the single theme that comes across from the best traders is that you should really always trade with the trend. Now, of course one may argue that there are many trends on a chart but what Strat ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Haha! Indeed Strat Indeed. Well I have sat on my hands watching silver fall because in my trading plan I have a measure to stop me taking counter trend trades (ie picking tops and bottoms) Line 1 says; "Is it a Reversal with Trend; if counter trend ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Spinner - yes sorry my fault - It's James Montier - god knows why I put Mark? Another great book I've just read is by Michael Covel 'Trend Following' - I'm glad I read it as there are many great quotes etc in there and reminders that it's better to ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Yeah, I was kinda missing the old guys too - let's hope the useful and educational debate can continue here. One thing I have learnt over the past 2 years is to not be wedded to your belief or view. I was always of the opinion that the stock market ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Silver lost to gold yesterday too in %age terms. First time in ages that gold has outperformed silver on a daily basis. Could this be due to London being closed or perhaps the gold/silver ratio had the answers? As long as the USD is devalued by the ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Now, are those USD moves meaningful or is that just traders squaring positions ahead of a boat load of holidays? I tend to wait for the confirmation these days - I like to see these candles activate and then get in on the retrace on subsequent PA - ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Nice weekly BEEB Strat - but I'm not so sure I would short into the 20/50 MAs rising at a nice 45 degree angle. Is this a stress free trade? I think I would rather wait for a lower high and PA again rather than trying to go long USD? I guess this ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Hi Strat. Thanks for the reply. I know that emotions have no place in trading and I'm the worst culprit for being an emotional stone (as the wife always tells me). I guess I was trying to highlight the moral compass within and if that one did make a ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Patrick, Not having a go at you per-se, just highlighting the fact to those that may drop into this thread and that don't know your pedigree! I guess trading is always going to be contentious as it's a zero-sum game and there is always some poor ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Hmm, Patrick - got lucky but not so lucky for the 15K people that perished in Japan. I know that you entered the trade on PASR but the choice of words could be viewed as insensitive? Maybe a donation to the Japan Reconstruction fund to settle the ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

CMC - bucket shop - I lost money with them - bad fills, requotes, errant orders etc - I closed my account and moved to IGIndex. Much better. CMC's platform was a bag of cr@p and would always crash around NFP etc.

CMC and Cityindex

Toyo - agree with the TF analysis but I don't trade breakouts and I wouldn't advocate doing so when learning to trade as they are too obvious and often subject to fake-outs etc. There are traders who do trade these break outs and they see the market ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Hcristea I would say it's a with trend entry - I have found that oddly 'with trend' entries are always the scariest - they often look like the trend is over. For me you have a delve into the Strat Shadow and a second lower high and a BEEB. The only ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Alexandra, What are your thoughts on Chunnel now? I must confess to fading the neckline break as I still had the conviction that this pair was going to sink as the weekly action was only a retrace into the monthly as we discussed. This is not a ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Pan out to the Monthly TF on EurGbp and see what candle you have there guys - remember the order of the higher time frames!! The only risks are the tightly clustered SR levels on this pair, often every 100 pips or so!

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Ref usdyen I see Hugh Hendry was right after all and not 'talking his book'!! Interestingly, (and rather oddly I may add) there was a piece in the FT last weekend where HH said he was trying to open up a short position on China! He said it was ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Great to see you posts too Alexandra -I have always respected your views and I appreciate your erudite and succinct comments. Please may they continue. Grim

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading