Saturday, April 24, 2010

Posting Again!

I've been back to the trading game for the last few months more regularly now that I've wrapped up my degree. Started slow in Feb. with good success and then exploded into March and April with great success. But it's head check/ego check time so I'll probably be taking it a lot slower going forward.

I spent a good portion today going through about 5 years of screen shots I've taken over the years. It's pretty interesting to see how a lot of my techniques and ideas evolved. I was going to post some examples, but the laptop with all of that on there died about 15 min. ago. If I can salvage the hd, I'll post some stuff later on.

But I do have a point to make. It was interesting to see my progression from serious skeptism and doubt about esoteric type trading to doing nothing but esoteric stuff. It was also amazing to see how the trading results took a hit when I first got into the style and then how quickly the results kept getting better and better. The weakness of course being money management and trade management.

Anywho, the point.... my evolution in the style was more about removing limitations on my beliefs and assumptions. The more I removed the limiting thinking the more possibilities opened up about what is possible when looking at a naked price chart. Granted, a lot of the ideas I came up with independently had already been thought up and written about elsewhere, but I can almost guarantee had I read about those concepts prior to my paradigm shift, they would have been just words in one eye and out the other.

So having realized that, it's back to the books to find out how much I've missed out on because I was blind to the message at the time.