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userque said:
I also determined long ago that moving averages are too lagging to swing trade with.
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Me 3. Only one that is halfway reliable is the 13 x 34 week cross, by 1% difference. and only for spx. I was still getting acquainted with that one in 09.
 
shitepoke said:
JTH
whats the death cross stuff you and BT are talkin'? You said get educated- we talkin' Google it or do you have a recommendation....
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When the 50 day crosses the 200 day it's called a death cross because it means a long term trend reversal. In the opposite direction it's called a golden cross.
 
Futures are down sharply (like we didn't see this comming.) Once 1740 gets permenently violated, I see no reason to ride it down, which means I'll be looking for an exit. Last year I was number 1 MTD for February, that won't be happening this year :D
 
i'm going to ride it all the way down in spectacular birchtree fashion, then ride it all the way back up. i am not booking this loss. i have 20 years to retirement, if i make it that far.

i'm just going to block out the pain and unpleasantness like i used to when aunt rose would pinch my cheeks and kiss me while my mom was at the grocery. this isn't happening, this isn't happening.
 
JTH - My stomach was weaker than yours, even though we entered the fray together and had a similar view late January. I moved from L2030 to L Income on last bounce up day in January and ejected yesterday to G Fund on what I viewed was a DCB.

I still have an IFT left for the month and live to fight another day. My losses were small, but a loss is a loss. Risk aversion kept me at 10% last year in TSP while others celebrated.

JTH said:
Futures are down sharply (like we didn't see this comming.) Once 1740 gets permenently violated, I see no reason to ride it down, which means I'll be looking for an exit. Last year I was number 1 MTD for February, that won't be happening this year :D
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burrocrat said:
i'm going to ride it all the way down in spectacular birchtree fashion, then ride it all the way back up. i am not booking this loss. i have 20 years to retirement, if i make it that far.

i'm just going to block out the pain and unpleasantness like i used to when aunt rose would pinch my cheeks and kiss me while my mom was at the grocery. this isn't happening, this isn't happening.
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That made me shoot coffee out my nose, I soooo know what you're talking about :)
 
OBXTrader said:
JTH - My stomach was weaker than yours, even though we entered the fray together and had a similar view late January. I moved from L2030 to L Income on last bounce up day in January and ejected yesterday to G Fund on what I viewed was a DCB.

I still have an IFT left for the month and live to fight another day. My losses were small, but a loss is a loss. Risk aversion kept me at 10% last year in TSP while others celebrated.
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I'd say your survival instincts have served you well, you are positioned perfectly on the tracker, you are afterall outperfoming all the major indexes :)
 
shitepoke said:
JTH- two attempts at 1740 have held. Any significance, or more important where we close?
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For now, I think the prevailing trend is drop-flag-drop-flag, I need to wait for this pattern to be broken before I believe otherwise. These are difficult conditions to play within the confines of TSP. Thus far I havn't seen anything that tells me the bottom is in, I don't have access to my charts at home so I can't speak fully to today's price action.
 
WorkFE said:
Love the play JTH. I got in just a hair under you. Not a huge amount but significant enough that if it takes off Buffett and I will be friends. :D
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Yea, it's what I call a fluff play sorta like a hail mary, high risk/high reward. I have little TA on it (can't track it with freestockcharts.com.) Have some friends at work playing it, so I thought I've give them a hand. It looks to me like it's losing momentum...
 
Mine was a 3 person deal, 2 brother In-laws. A good chunk combined but we agreed it was a long term play. I have a few like that. Some have done extremely well and others were like going to Vegas:laugh:
 
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