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This doesn’t carry the MWF seal of approval, but its interesting nonetheless. There is more than one way to make money in the market. Too bad he didn’t post this article here at MtM.

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This comment was left by the Lonely Trader on Dt’s site. DT has a man crush on Obama, and has posted pics of him at the beach. I wish he hadn’t deleted so many comments, but I imagine it was some sort of racist bullshit. Personally, I think you should just allow those people to expose themselves for the idiots they are.

No, shit-for-brains…I’m a military officer trying to keep our boys and girls alive in the midst of one of teh greatest foreign policy coups in our nation’s short history, while you sit on your overweight, fast-food-eating carcass of an arse in the US and act all indignant and patriotic and all that blah.

It’s ignorant citizens like you who let our politicians run afoul of international law and trash our credibility abroad, and then vote for them again so they can finish the job. And it’s citizens like you who put your little red, white and blue flags on your big shiny SUVs, while carefully placing your “No Dogs, Sailors or Soldiers on the Grass” sign on your front lawns.

And your comment about beheadings is putting the cart before the horse, I’m afraid.

You make me sick. I hate the fact that I swore an oath to defend and die for you.

GFY

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Check out this post by the lonely trader. It should definitely challenge your thinking when it comes to losses. He needs to join MtM, so I don’t have to spend half my day linking his blog. If I was technically savvy, I would set up a bot to automatically import his posts to this forum. Since I’m not, I’ll continue to post link after link.

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The Lonely Trader wouldn’t be so lonely if he joined the MtM team. I tried to welcome him to this dysfunctional family, but he wasn’t interested. I guess its better to be by yourself than deal with the MtM drama.

Here’s a comment that he left on my post about the mass exodus to swing trading.

My personal experience has been somewhat different. Instead of thinking of things in terms of position trading, swing trading, day-trading or scalping, I think in terms of time horizons. I execute what some people would call a swing strategy on both the daily and one hour time frames, with confirmation from other time frames. I have another on the 5 min time frame that most have called a “scalping” strategy. I consider all of these “trend following” strategies that take advantage of price excursions on their respective time frames. There are advantages and disadvantages to every method, depending on the time frame, frequency of signals, and all that blah. At the end of the month, I am stunned at how much I pay my broker for the short term model. Transaction fees are enormous given the profit factors of these models. On the longer time frames, I have to put up with volatility and lots of backing and filling in the FX markets, which has really changed the way I design my models. But there is the added advantage of positive rollover, which can erase all transaction costs and add profit, besides. I’m not particularly drawn to one time horizon over another, but I am beginning to think I should trade more futures and stocks and less FX. I like the idea of having very specific times to trade in these markets because my time is limited. And there are quite a few bloggers out there who seem to be doing very well at it…

For you chart lovers, he has some good ones up right now. Show him some love, so he won’t be so lonely.

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I found another blog that covers more than just his personal trading style. In fact, he doesn’t go over it at all. I like the way he thinks, and will be stopping by regularly.

Btw, in light of my previous article, you may find this post particularly interesting.

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