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Catching Big Waves - a trader's journal of surfing the the markets
If I were not our of town, I would trade the euro right now. Can't really explain why, but I like the way it looks best of the 3 I watch heavily. I could just change instruments and presto, I'm a euro trader, but it is tough enough to trade without the right chart layout and a slower connection speed.
CL is getting tired, but there is little to provide resistance. I thought about going for my $100 before midnight, but that is not what I feel is the right thing to do.
ES should blow the top off 1282, but I do not like trading ES. There is not enough room on a single screen to watch TF. I have a big TV as a 2nd monitor, but setting the resolution higher causes it to say "No Signal", so space-wise, I have 2 laptop screens. I considered buying monitors here. I have considered flying with my own monitors. But I hate checking bags. Adds an hour, minimum, when I count each end.
It seems obsessive that I put so much emphasis on keeping up with trading while traveling. But, I keep up with eating, showering, what's the difference? Trading is not a hobby for me. It is not investing. I am working towards making it a job, but it is not that either. I have often said it is not about the money. Of course it's about the money, but I still know that really, it's not. I can't really describe what it is though. At some times, it is a passion. At others, it is possibly life itself. Sometimes it is drama, or action, or comedy. Sometimes it is me against the world, and other times me in harmony with the world. And both of those thoughts can be profitable.
Trading feels so organic compared to other means of making money. It is a flow, it is measuerd by the math of nature, it moves by human emotion, it triggers depths of thought that otherwise might go unknown. Learning to trade sounded like an academic task, and there is that aspect, but more than that it is a personal journey of self-discovery.
If someone asked, how I made money, and I said I was a trader, that would not be correct. A mathematician? Hardly. A researcher of probabilities? Somewhat, but that is not the point. A gambler? Maybe, but you try not to be. What, then, is this? And the fact that I probably could not answer that is possibly what makes it so appealing.
zt, I grabed a quote out of your quote, but have no business messing with it. Reposting as-is. No edit justified.
You and I shared some thoughts months ago, I was in DC proper then, I can still picture the room and the glow of the laptop as we conversed about your beginnings into trading. I recall commenting about the image of the iceberg, how wise, how appropriate.
I might like this post of yours better than any you have offered previously. It seemed to have more transparency, a word I often use but could not explain. And it fell right into where my head is tonight.
I see it was edited since the original, and I know that because I often go back through these pages, and I remember them all to some degree
There are several traders here I was meant to meet, and you are one.
I might actually get it, that, "ponderous" has no place in "possible". "Probable", is different, it requires further calculation, but "possible" has no math attached to it.
