Traders' Roundtable

G'day all,

A couple of disclaimers to start with.

1. I am still only learning (avidly) about trend trading.

2. The following is only a half formed idea but my past experience has taught me that by putting my thoughts down in a public readable format (ie a forum) helps me to get my thoughts ...

G'day,

I am told that sierracharts interfaces with IB data to provide intraday charting at a good all up cost.

I havnt tried it myself but just pass it on for what it's worth.

Fforrest

G'day,

I'm not sure how relevant this is to anything and whether it is of value but I thought I would pass it on for consumption by the community.

I belong to another forum, Hotcopper ( www.hotcopper.com.au ) which is a stock chat forum based in Australia. At the end of October last year a poster ...

G'day shakyamuni,

Very thought provoking. Touches on some of the issues that have been percolating through my mind. The distinction between the biological brain and electronic "brain" is an interesting approach to describing "the trading problem".

It is partly for the reasons that you have stated ...

G'day gms,

That incrediblecharts chart for SFE... I was under the impression their charting software does not include US stocks. Does it?

SFE is the ASX code for Sydney Futures Exchange (a stock I happen to be watching but that's another story). Incrediblecharts do not yet include US stocks but ...

Does html work here?

<img src="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~omni1/sfe.png">

Apparently not.

How about this?

G'day TC,

In the interests of keeping it simple, what about a simple (or exponential) MA?

Most of my trading to date is in equities and equity derivatives. I generally have a 100 day SMA up on my chart and find that the change in direction of the MA corresponds to my "eyeball" calling of "up" or ...