Thankyou Steve, Re Price as the No1 indicator.
I noticed that you generously put your core trading philosophy into print recently. Some other trading survivors have said the same thing in this forum before - Dick said Plot(Close) is his favorite indicator and I recall Bob or Terry Magic suggesting something similar a while ago. The majority of my effort over the years has gone into developing a trading philosophy - it was the best thing I ever did trading wise - it took a lot of observing the market and trying to explain it's behaviour to get there - if you observe carefully and objectively follow the clues there's not too many places to go - we all end up in a similar place. I do believe it is a minimalist approach though and some people don't have the temperament for it. You also have to stand against conventional wisdom and only a few have the stomach for that. That is only the foundation though. Once you get "price action" on the table, as the theme, and then start to add the side dishes that go with it things just get better and better (all of the TA classics are in there): - Trading the edge erodes the edge? (It's a pretty big edge!) - What is a trend? Is there really such a thing in trading? (To linear regress or not to linear regress?) - Support and Resistance? (Expert studies, by academics, show they don't work????) - Cycles? (Fibonacci are you kidding?) Thanks once again for your endorsement. All the best, brian_z --- In [email protected], "scourt2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian, > > Of all the things you've written in this forum, I'd have to rank this > statement as the most profound. Any trader taking this advice will > find a quicker path to what they seek. > > --- In [email protected], "brian_z111" <brian_z111@> wrote: > > Getting rid of the CCI also fits nicely with my views that price > > action is a superior 'indicator' to many of the price derived > > indicators (CCI is highly over-rated by some?). > > >
