scose-no-doubt
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So it's all about the sigmas then?
Since this is technical analysis; i was wondering is there any formula i can use to help me analyse the markets/charts better instead of feeling like im using hunches.
Any help
their charts impecably measure the total algorhthymic scope of the markets.
What does this even mean?
NOW you're getting somewhere
TA works when you keep it simples......
Im starting to think that TA is a load of ****e; am i wrong?
I read book by men who have PHDs and MBA in chemistry and physics who are talking about when a charts makes "head and shoulders".
Im sorry but that just sounds like a load of bolony like where is the thought in that? Like that is comparable to look at tea leaves. Im open to correction on this but i seriously doubt a trader making 1 million in Goldman Sachs is look for head and shoulders in a charts or maybe he is? I wont even start about fibonacci "patterns". Im not doubting the profitablity of these strategies but they seem a bit wishy-washy.
i dont think maths works in trading, if it worked LTCM wouldnt have gone under, even Waren Buffet himself says the LTCM team had the highest level of scientific intellect assembled in any business ever.
Buffet has got rocks in his head if he thinks that LTCM could match in any way the intellectual firepower of organizations such as ATT's Bell Labs (and others).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
Im starting to think that TA is a load of ****e; am i wrong?
As far as them being wishy washy or full of baloney, I would tell you unabashedly the answer is "NO". Why? Because I use them, and I am very successful.
At least he hasn't got his head up his a$$, rocks or no rocks.
I think a lot of people fail because they think that there is an infallible indicator or combination - x crosses Y, sell blindly. They don't see indicators as tools, to be used correctly or incorrectly.
He's got rocks in his head when it comes to teaching trading. He's got brains when it comes to wealth accumulation.
Exactly! It is a matter of finding the right indicators and combination of them for that individual. This is the part that takes work with no pay. Many people do not want to pay that price.
He doesn't teach trading does he?
You won't win many friends with that attitude .
You can tell when you see people saying things like "divergence doesn't work", "PA doesn't work" etc. Nothing works in the way that most people mean (ie, see a pin bar pointing up, buy, sell at the top of the market, order Rolls with Flame paint job).
That's before you get to MM, trade management, pyschology and so on.
In short, the really successful ones will not tell you.
You are probably not interested in the ones that lost their shirt.
Many look for some sort of formula that allows them to trade profitably.
Here is one really simple one : from the crash in 08 to early 10, if the market went down one day, there was a > 50% chance it would go up the next (and v.v. )
I dont think this holds so well anymore.
As others have commented, if there is a 'magic rule' out there :
- if it is simple, you can work it out for yourself
- if it is impossibly complex and unknowable you (all of us) might as well give up
So, basically there is not a formula (as far as I know )
What there is is the result of hard work by bright people that provides a better than average chance for a limited period of time.