arabianights
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gimme till tuesday at least!
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Pancake Tuesday? You're on! You can get the pancakes in for all the pros on T2W if you don't do it.
DionysusToast
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OK - but can you get some technical advice on the term 'screen shot' ?
It's not supposed to involve a digital camera
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'tis troll season, although this season is particularly fascinating, must be the weather. They can't take their stale bread to feed the ducks in the park, so they feed off each other on 'ere...
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OK - but can you get some technical advice on the term 'screen shot' ?
It's not supposed to involve a digital camera
I think a blurry digital camera image taken at an angle is much harder to paint brush/photo shop than a screen captured with 'Prnt Scrn'.
arabianights
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OK - but can you get some technical advice on the term 'screen shot' ?
It's not supposed to involve a digital camera
True but that computer isn't connected to the internet, so there's no other way of getting info off it apart from absurd fooling around with USB sticks or whatever...
arabianights
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going to be barren pickings today I think. That account is up €12.50 so far...
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morgan_edge
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I find it all quite interesting.
I used to be in the original chatzy room and Im sure Arabian wont mind me saying that he was pretty terrible when it came to calling trades on the FTSE with a free spreadbet account some of us were playing around with. He even said it himself.
However, he is obviously good at consistently taking money from his STIRS trading. Id love to know why that is/what the difference is. Is it do with information he has access to that he didn't when trying to trade the FTSE? Or is it just an entirely different game he's playing compared to what all of us retail guys consider 'trading' to be.?..
I used to be in the original chatzy room and Im sure Arabian wont mind me saying that he was pretty terrible when it came to calling trades on the FTSE with a free spreadbet account some of us were playing around with. He even said it himself.
However, he is obviously good at consistently taking money from his STIRS trading. Id love to know why that is/what the difference is. Is it do with information he has access to that he didn't when trying to trade the FTSE? Or is it just an entirely different game he's playing compared to what all of us retail guys consider 'trading' to be.?..
arabianights
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At a guess I'd suggest what he trades in his professional life is worlds away from the scenario you mention;
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arabianights
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The easiest answer is that they move differently and you don't have to necessarily take a directional view, as such.
Bloody hell Dave, i thought you were going to post a chart with annotation, damned you for not pictorialising your thoughts and feelings. I want your stirs mind, body and soul.
arabianights
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I would pictoralise them, but I don't have that chicken image anymore
Damned!! Now the stirs will never be mine to hold and cherish. (are you sure you haven't got that chicken image?)
morgan_edge
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Thanks. I assumed as much.
I come from a purely spreadbetting and futures background so I imagine its 2 different worlds, although I have got some nice consistency in the last few years or so after years of learning, and things are looking good.
Still something to think about though.
Does your 'style' require that one works through a firm or do you think you could do what you do if your firm dissapeared tomorrow and you had to open up a retail trading account?
thanks
arabianights
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Could do it on a retail trading account assuming round trip fees were low enough, easy.
