It's interesting to add a few examples about how the market plays.

Gold August 2007, Daily RSI overbought, price 686.
Gold November 2007, Daily RSI STILL overbought, price 839.

Gold January 2008, Daily RSI overbought, price 900.
Gold March 2008, Daily RSI STILL overbought, price 1000.

By entering short when Gold was OB we could say Market is trading against me because we where screwed time after time.

What about Oil today?

Hell with it. Go long and see what's happen. Why?

Because 2/3 time per day we hear analysts pointing to $200 and this is creating a wave of emotions pulling up the price. Just be careful when you hear "seems there is no limits for the uptrend" or "seems Euro is going to the moon". After some comments like that DJIA falls 14000 ticks and EURO 600 pips.

Cause: Emotions

However, our hope is Economy rules are more powerful than emotions. Because this rules are long term based meanwhile emotions does not live so much.

Remember Charles Dow?

I would like to quote what A Elder says about his Force Index:

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I think Linuxser's post is of utmost importance. I ask myself, "Does History Repeat itself'?. It certainly does. Look at Simba's thread, and other good traders posts. They are not guessing "Where is the price going" If you follow the So-Called analyst's quotes and signals (Media), you'll probably wind up on the wrong side of the trade.

I took Van Tharp's trader's test. My weakness is following advice or signals. I keep Ken Wood's quote, "Trade The Damn Patterns" This quote is years old. It reminds me NOT to take advice. It proves true.

I also refer to Chris Lori's "Traders Psychology".

Another example: Why did Igor generate "Historical Price Indicator"?

In Forex trading, Are Ehlers and Dow wrong? I don't think so, because they understand Trader's Psychology.

I constantly hear Gold will be at $1500 in 2010, invest now! Maybe, however this is 2008.
Trade what you see, because you are trading against the market and traders on the other side of the market, and your broker. You need to be aware of instant news releases, Truth or Lies. You need to be ahead of the game.

1 more historical statistic. My Internet connection was down for 18 hours from Thursday night to Friday morning @ 10:00 AM. This is also a historical
statistic at my location.

Any advice I can give is read about Alexander Ehler, Van Tharp, and Charles Dow, and Chris Lori.

Thanks Linuxser, now were getting to the heart of trading.

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I had to laugh at that too. It’s not his trading that isn’t up to scratch, it’s the market and brokers working against him.

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Very good picture you posted, most of time this happens.

To add further.

You take any indicator and system this will happen.
Say simple RSI 50. 1Hr
You see on chart, price touch RSI 50, and bounce strong.
You spot this as this is working
You see next oprtunity to catch such spot.
Price touch RSI 50 spot Next time, you go long
You expect good bounce like you saw last time.
You see some profit and becomes happy, and expect more profit since you saw very good bounce last time.
You hold trade tight, and shit...price broker RSI 50, Your profitable trade turn to negative.
Now Game of Hopes start.
you hold trade in negative..price continue to fall..you get frustrated..exit trade on fear of big losses. you exit trade with some loose.
Now price is just below RSI 30, and consolidating.
Now you are thinking to buy at RSI 30. but waiting and thinking what to do.
now some fear playing since your last loss dancing in front of you.
you thinks..you should buy at RSI 30. But can't click buy .

Price forms RSI Diversion..and then shoot within short time. you miss trade.
you miss trade due to fear to go long at RSI 30.

This happens most of time.
What market do is. it shows you someting working at Time A . and on based on that, when people enter then they make it fail and show you Now that A is not working...Now Thing B is working
This makes all system work sometimes and fail other times.
Market choose such 5 working Things.
and amongs this 5 things they choose one thing this time, and causes other 4 to fail.

So they keep changing patterns .


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Ramdas

source FOREX Statistical Research Center/Four Problems with Technical Analysis
[QUOTE Scott Percival]Being a geek, it's only natural that I'm primarily a technical trader. However, I've never been satisfied with the current state of Technical Analysis (TA) because of the lack of a widespread, rigorous scientific approach to the subject. Here are four main problems with technical analysis that I see:

1. Classic chart-reading is too subjective:

"It's a rising wedge of course!"
"Err, and it has a head and shoulders top kind of embedded in it...or something."
"Actually, I think it's an uptrend with a channel line, which is just part of a larger diamond consolidation formation..."

Yeah, right. The problem here is that human beings tend to look for patterns, so the more patterns that chartists "define", the more likely it is that one or more of them will show up in a chart. There's no confirmed uptrend on the chart? What about a reverse head & shoulders? No? OK, well how about a rising wedge or a falling flag, or maybe a cup with handle, rounded bottom, or double top? Get the idea? If you can't find a pattern, just keep inventing new patterns until one shows up on your charts. This isn't helpful, and the problem is exacerbated by the fact that most of the "patterns" in classic chart reading are not rigorously defined. By this I mean that it would be difficult to write a computer algorithm that describes how to identify every possible instance of the pattern.

One of the major research projects that I've worked on over the past couple of years involves a method of classifying and identifying chart patterns in a rigorous way. This method, called "Bar Pattern Analysis" (BPA), consists of coding certain characteristics of price behavior so that any action on a chart has a unique "string" of code that describes it. This way, there is never any doubt about what pattern we are looking at, keeping everyone on the same sheet of music. I'm still working through some conceptual issues with this approach, and will write more about it in future articles.

2. Few TA indicator "signals" are supported by research:

Technical Analysis does not just consist of classic chart reading however. Many technicians understood the drawbacks of classic chart patterns that I've discussed, and took a great step forward with the construction of indicators. Technical indicators such as moving averages, MACD and RSI provide clear unambiguous signals such as moving average crossovers, overbought/oversold levels and so forth and helped to eliminate much of the "subjectivity problem" with TA. However, not everyone agrees whether a given signal is bullish or bearish. Even when there is agreement, it is usually based only on common beliefs about market behavior or on anecdotal evidence ("See? The Williams %R flashed an oversold signal on IBM here, and the price went up soon after!"). This is not to say that no actual scientific research has been done on TA indicators, but it's far from a common practice. Much of my own work involves the use of statistical analysis to determine whether the behavior of a given technical signal has any significant correlation to future price movements.

3. Technical Analysis deals mainly with direction:

There are certain chart patterns like triangles and flags which are supposed to tell you not only the direction of a future price move, but also how far the price will move. However, most of TA just answers the question "up or down?" That's not enough. When I traded currencies in 2004, I was constantly setting my stops too tight, my targets too far away, or vice-versa. This experience made me realize that "up or down" is not the only important information. Traders need answers to questions like "Should I set a tight stop or a wide stop in this situation?" and "Should I set my price target close for a small but likely profit, or far away for a larger but less likely gain?" In my research into FOREX price behavior, I try to design my research efforts to include not only the question of which way, but the question of how far as well.

4. The effectiveness of indicators changes as market behavior changes:

This is a conjectural model of how markets work that I'm studying currently. By "conjectural model" I simply mean that this theory makes logical sense, but I don't have a shred of evidence to support it yet. The general idea is that the makeup of the "crowd" that is currently involved in actively trading a financial instrument changes over time as some people cease trading it and others begin trading it. Each individual trader has their own style, and as the makeup of the "crowd" changes gradually over time, the behavior of the price will change its characteristics as well. I suspect that this is an evolutionary process rather than a revolutionary one. For any given period of time though, the price behavior will have a certain "personality", a phenomenon that I've seen mentioned by many traders.

Consequently, I believe that there are actually no "good" or "bad" indicators. There are just indicators which are currently working well for a given market and others which are not. One of the constant challenges for traders is to determine which is which, and to update their trading strategies accordingly. Some of my current research centers around creating tools which allow traders to do this. Instead of a trader saying, "Well I use a combination of moving averages and RSI" and so on, my vision is that traders will be able to say, "I use whatever indicators happen to be working best right now in whichever market I'm trading."

Scott Percival
October 2006
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Hi Traders

Trading runs in cycles. There are good day and bad days, there are good weeks and bad weeks, there are good months and bad months. Don’t let a bad day, week, or month put you down. Learn not to measure results in the very short term...

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Lol, I think everyone when starting off in trading felt like the market was trasing against them.

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How much important to know the “personality” of the currency you are trading. For example, the GBP/USD is more volatile in early to mid European session then any other liquid pair....

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yup, that's only the reason if we've loss our trade , just easy way don't against the market , the hard one is HOW , the answer is find the TREND and ride on it , HOW to find the trend, LEARN THE PATTERN

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