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XL-entLady's Account Talk
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Frixxxx
Moderator
That bouncey rabbit is too hard for me to catch:laugh:.
Actually, I have reviewed the TRIX in my research. Since I diverged to the FOREX market for my business, I haven't really been a user of it. It does have the uncanny ability to show overbought and oversold markets, which is a good indicator, but I can't claim to be an expert.
Can't wait to see what you find out....
Have a good one!
Steadygain
TSP Elite
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XL-entLady
Well-known member
You know, friends, the more I play with oscillators and indicators and SMAs and EMAs, the more I know why there aren't any easy answers! I have decided a few things over the last several days:
(1) Stocks and bonds are games in the biggest casino in the world. And bull and bear markets just change the odds but it's still gambling. So betting long odds with money you can't afford to lose is a sucker bet. :worried:
(2) If you're FERS and you stay in G Fund, inflation will eat your account to nothing after you're retired. Unless you're hit by a bus. So you've got to play the casino game.
(3) My New Year's Resolution is to quit trying to short-term trade my TSP account. The FRTIB rules make that impossible. So I've got to move out to a weekly timeframe to make my decisions and just use the daily charts for entrance and exit timing.
(4) I'm going to try to remember to record my real world IFTs in the autotracker this year. For the last several months any relation between my real and my MB accounts has been purely accidental. :embarrest:
Lady
(1) Stocks and bonds are games in the biggest casino in the world. And bull and bear markets just change the odds but it's still gambling. So betting long odds with money you can't afford to lose is a sucker bet. :worried:
(2) If you're FERS and you stay in G Fund, inflation will eat your account to nothing after you're retired. Unless you're hit by a bus.
So you've got to play the casino game.(3) My New Year's Resolution is to quit trying to short-term trade my TSP account. The FRTIB rules make that impossible. So I've got to move out to a weekly timeframe to make my decisions and just use the daily charts for entrance and exit timing.
(4) I'm going to try to remember to record my real world IFTs in the autotracker this year. For the last several months any relation between my real and my MB accounts has been purely accidental. :embarrest:
Lady
Life can get complicated sometimes, can't it ! All's I want to do is set it,,,
and forget it. Each time I try, It keeps sucking me back in like New Hoover.
You know, friends, the more I play with oscillators and indicators and SMAs and EMAs, the more I know why there aren't any easy answers! I have decided a few things over the last several days:
(1) Stocks and bonds are games in the biggest casino in the world. And bull and bear markets just change the odds but it's still gambling. So betting long odds with money you can't afford to lose is a sucker bet. :worried:
(2) If you're FERS and you stay in G Fund, inflation will eat your account to nothing after you're retired. Unless you're hit by a bus.
(3) My New Year's Resolution is to quit trying to short-term trade my TSP account. The FRTIB rules make that impossible. So I've got to move out to a weekly timeframe to make my decisions and just use the daily charts for entrance and exit timing.
(4) I'm going to try to remember to record my real world IFTs in the autotracker this year. For the last several months any relation between my real and my MB accounts has been purely accidental. :embarrest:
Lady
I have a similar vow to myself after the second half of 2008 and up till now (getting burned on trying to time "market moving news"). I will not pay any attention to "events" that MAY move the market and only focus on Technical Indicators like the Moving Averages and other ones that you all may find of value. I won't mind missing some days or weeks of gains in order to only go long in a definite up trend. I've become a Trend Trader....
Steadygain
TSP Elite
You know, friends, the more I play with oscillators and indicators and SMAs and EMAs, the more I know why there aren't any easy answers! I have decided a few things over the last several days:
Well I will end the day with this post - and this is the very thing I was talking about earlier. Lady - YOU ARE A WOMAN - with a woman's heart - and you really shine through in a wonderful way.
(1) Stocks and bonds are games in the biggest casino in the world. And bull and bear markets just change the odds but it's still gambling. So betting long odds with money you can't afford to lose is a sucker bet. :worried:
The gambling is greatly increased when bull and bear markets are seen on a 'FREQUENT BASIS' - and thus the odds of jumping in and out almost daily become the norm. Putting your money in the larger funds (such as C/S/I) has far less risk. Watching Markets daily and going with emotions is guaranteed disaster.
(2) If you're FERS and you stay in G Fund, inflation will eat your account to nothing after you're retired. Unless you're hit by a bus.
Once you've determined a Real BEAR - or RECESSION has started - you'd lose far less by remaining in G until the Real BULL comes back. That's been my game plan and so far it has really paid off.
(3) My New Year's Resolution is to quit trying to short-term trade my TSP account. The FRTIB rules make that impossible. So I've got to move out to a weekly timeframe to make my decisions and just use the daily charts for entrance and exit timing.
If 99.99% of the experts are RIGHT - we should preserve our capital and wait for HUGE DROPS to catch the bounces as the Markets dive. I had already run out of IFTs - but yesterday was very much a BUY
(4) I'm going to try to remember to record my real world IFTs in the autotracker this year. For the last several months any relation between my real and my MB accounts has been purely accidental. :embarrest:
Lady
Even if you forget once in a blue moon - the important thing is sharing your thoughts and letting us get in touch with that Sparkling Side - ty.
XL-entLady
Well-known member
Wouldn't it freak Steady out if he found out I was really a GUY! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Kidding ....
Lady
Frixxxx
Moderator
I don't know about Steady, but it would surely freak ME OUT!:blink::laugh:
poolman
Top Return 2008
Show us your true colors now or forever hold you piece..
I will accept the real you.
XL-entLady
Well-known member
Okay, all kidding aside. I love pearls, lace and lipstick and I live too far from San Francisco to be a drag queen, so I must be a woman! And my husband who is totally cracking up as he is reading this thread can vouch for me. :nuts:Show us your true colors now or forever hold you piece..
I will accept the real you.
Lady
poolman
Top Return 2008
LOL, I did need to know that. It does make a difference. You where starting to freak me out.
XL-entLady
Well-known member
At about 1 o'clock today I cribbed some thoughts from an article by David Frye that was published at 6 o'clock today. :laugh:
"The casino environment that has become Wall Street and investing in general continues...."
http://www.greenfaucet.com/sector-etfs/casino-like-environment-continues-on-wall-street/81918
Lady
The article contains some interesting charts and comments. I hope you find it as informative as I did!
"The casino environment that has become Wall Street and investing in general continues...."
http://www.greenfaucet.com/sector-etfs/casino-like-environment-continues-on-wall-street/81918
Lady
justbizness45
Member
Interesting article! Thanks, Lady
budnipper1
Active member
Yep, I'm diggin' David Fry, too.
"So, what sparked the rally? Earnings and a positive outlook from IBM, a late short squeeze in crude oil from Da Boyz in the trading pits, and a sense that more bailouts (oh goody!) are coming for our banker friends as hinted by the tax cheat Geithner." :nuts:
http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/showpost.php?p=204123&postcount=141
"So, what sparked the rally? Earnings and a positive outlook from IBM, a late short squeeze in crude oil from Da Boyz in the trading pits, and a sense that more bailouts (oh goody!) are coming for our banker friends as hinted by the tax cheat Geithner." :nuts:
http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/showpost.php?p=204123&postcount=141
CountryBoy
Well-known member
Good article Lady,
I like the analogy of the stock market to a Casino, but David Fry does wear me down with all his charts. :laugh:
CB
gonefishin
New member
:blink: uh, thats funny
(3) My New Year's Resolution is to quit trying to short-term trade my TSP account. The FRTIB rules make that impossible. So I've got to move out to a weekly timeframe to make my decisions and just use the daily charts for entrance and exit timing.
Heres an idea - Rollover IFT's
(3) My New Year's Resolution is to quit trying to short-term trade my TSP account. The FRTIB rules make that impossible. So I've got to move out to a weekly timeframe to make my decisions and just use the daily charts for entrance and exit timing.
Heres an idea - Rollover IFT's
kar_crazy
Active member
Roll overs we wish:laugh::blink: uh, thats funny
(3) My New Year's Resolution is to quit trying to short-term trade my TSP account. The FRTIB rules make that impossible. So I've got to move out to a weekly timeframe to make my decisions and just use the daily charts for entrance and exit timing.
Heres an idea - Rollover IFT's
Steadygain
TSP Elite
Good Morning Lady,
Screw the markets (pardon my French) - but the MB is alive and well and that means more to me than the daily votility of moving up and down and not really getting anywhere until we have another big drop. :blink:
Anyway - speaking of your husband...
...do you think he'd be willing to share some of his views on 2012. I'd be thrilled to get some of his input - maybe he could put it on a thread in the Lounge if he's willing. Anyway VERY FEW are really into that - and it's something I'd love to bounce back and forth a little bit. Well take care - and don't forget 'the Corn seed is good but eat it sparingly....'
Steadygain
TSP Elite
Good Morning Lady,
Screw the markets (pardon my French) - but the MB is alive and well and that means more to me than the daily votility of moving up and down and not really getting anywhere until we have another big drop. :blink:
Anyway - speaking of your husband...
Well take care - and don't forget 'the Corn seed is good but eat it sparingly....'
Sorry Lady,
As I was washing my hands for lunch I realized how incredibly stupid the above must sound. No offense to him...but if my wife..who I adore immensely would start exchanging on the MB... it would like ruin everything for me.
So just pretend it's a 'Mission Impossible' message that self destructed....
Anyway, hope things are well.
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