Archive for June 4th, 2008
38 steps
This is an interesting series of steps submitted by NicT for general information:
1. We accumulate information – buying books, going to seminars and researching.
2. We begin to trade with our ‘new’ knowledge.
3. We consistently ‘donate’ and then realize we may need more knowledge or information.
4. We accumulate more information.
5. We switch the commodities we are currently following.
6. We go back into the market and trade with our ‘updated’ knowledge.
7. We get ‘beat up’ again and begin to lose some of our confidence.
Fear starts setting in.
8. We start to listen to ‘outside news’ and to other traders.
9. We go back into the market and continue to ‘donate’.
10. We switch commodities again.
11. We search for more information.
12. We go back into the market and start to see a little progress.
13. We get ‘over-confident’ and the market humbles us.
14. We start to understand that trading successfully is going to take more time and more knowledge than we anticipated.
Most people will give up at this point, as they realize work is involved.
15. We get serious and start concentrating on learning a ‘real’ methodology.
16. We trade our methodology with some success, but realize that something is missing.
17. We begin to understand the need for having rules to apply our methodology.
18. We take a sabbatical from trading to develop and research our trading rules.
19. We start trading again, this time with rules and find some success, but over all we still hesitate when it comes time to execute.
20. We add, subtract and modify rules as we see a need to be more proficient with our rules.
21. We feel we are very close to crossing that threshold of successful trading.
22. We start to take responsibility for our trading results as we understand that our success is in us, not the methodology.
23. We continue to trade and become more proficient with our methodology and our rules.
24. As we trade we still have a tendency to violate our rules and our results are still erratic.
25. We know we are close.
26. We go back and research our rules.
27. We build the confidence in our rules and go back into the market and trade.
28. Our trading results are getting better, but we are still hesitating in executing our rules.
29. We now see the importance of following our rules as we see the results of our trades when we don’t follow the rules.
30. We begin to see that our lack of success is within us (a lack of discipline in following the rules because of some kind of fear), and we begin to work on knowing ourselves better.
31. We continue to trade and the market teaches us more and more about ourselves.
32. We master our methodology and our trading rules.
33. We begin to consistently make money.
34. We get a little over-confident and the market humbles us.
35. We continue to learn our lessons.
36. We stop thinking and allow our rules to trade for us (trading becomes boring, but successful) and our trading account continues to grow as we increase our contract size.
37. We are making more money than we ever dreamed possible.
38. We go on with our lives and accomplish many of the goals we had always dreamed
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm Hi Ray,
Is there any website which you can find all exchanges volume in single page? Thanks
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm If I may add from MarketVolume:
Short-Term Volume Surges: These are volume surges that potentially affect market trends over the short-term ( from one to several days).
Mid-Term Volume Surges: These are volume surges that potentially affect the market over the mid-term ( from several weeks to several months).
Long-Term Volume Surges: These are volume surges that have the potential to affect market direction over the long-term ( for up to several years).
Critical Volume
Critical volume represents the amount of volume that is required to cause the market to Reverse.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:56 am Hi Jordan
Not that I know of. Perhaps a reader may know of such a site?
June 4th, 2008 at 1:03 am Hi Ana
Thank you for sharing.
While I do subscribe to Marlet Volume for its normalized volume, I don’t agree with its view of the use of volume. Market Volume seeks to substitute a simple indicator for market structure.
I am in the Wyckoff camp that sees volume as an indicator signaling continuation or change of the current market direction. How to interpret this indicator depends largely on context