Topic: Challenge: if you really are a guru, post trades in real time (Read 4593 times)
Sorry. It's just kind of hard to do that when I'm daytrading in high volume and tracking a bunch of charts at the same time. Maybe I should only post in here when I'm doing swing trading and not daytrading?
Folks,
Let's keep this thread real. "Posting in real time" does not mean posting completed trades once they're complete. That's too easy to be selectively biased about, i.e., only posting successful completed trades and omitting completed trades gone bad.
Rather, it means posting both the opening of the trade and the closing of the trade independently at different times.
Obviously, the primary motivation is to show off.
But I think there's a better purpose here: to be honest with yourself, track your record in public, and learn from your mistakes. It can only pay off long term.
I suggest some sort of common format. Something like:
Open: Bought 1.4BTC @ $500
Or something similar. I'm open to suggestions.
Let's keep this thread real. "Posting in real time" does not mean posting completed trades once they're complete. That's too easy to be selectively biased about, i.e., only posting successful completed trades and omitting completed trades gone bad.
Rather, it means posting both the opening of the trade and the closing of the trade independently at different times.
Obviously, the primary motivation is to show off.
But I think there's a better purpose here: to be honest with yourself, track your record in public, and learn from your mistakes. It can only pay off long term.
I suggest some sort of common format. Something like:
Open: Bought 1.4BTC @ $500
Or something similar. I'm open to suggestions.
Hard to post trades in real time when I'm daytrading.
yea ive noticed how my orders have an unnatural weight on bitfinex, I take it as flattery. I use 2.5 leverage but no stops for sure.
yeah....as though much of the other 'orders' were simply faked volume in order to entice
I may go back to that place, but would never ever place a leveraged trade there in a low volume environment such as what we have seen, and ideally I would have the discipline only ever to trade when I was certain of a future course of events......of course what normally happens is that I go there with a certain trade in my mind, I do well on that and start to think that I am too smart, and then I start firing trades off from the hip all over the place and rapidly deplete my profits.
yea ive noticed how my orders have an unnatural weight on bitfinex, I take it as flattery. I use 2.5 leverage but no stops for sure.
congrats. I made some nice money shorting from 620. dare I say not a good day for everyone though.
Today I learned how Bitfinex is never priced in your favour. early days.
Today I learned how Bitfinex is never priced in your favour. early days.
My profits were pish. I just cashed them in out of spite for the market.
That short would have been a bit juicier, especially if leveraged, but also very risky doing any leveraged trade in such a shallow stagnant market.
You will soon learn that Bitfinex is a shark pool. Basically, you shouldn't set Stop Losses there. You will be cheated. I have seen Bitfinex spike to exactly where my stop losses where set before. i.e. My stop losses turned out to be the top of the short term market. The exchange owners would suggest that their are bots that can try and guess where the margin calls are. I would suggest that these bots have a little helping hand with inside exchange info, and then they bots can calculate how far up/down the order book it is worth their while to bid/sell in order to trigger margin calls.
gratz!
i am just happy that i get rid of the ltc in time and didnt make much loss.
for now placing my bids low and wait. 13$ltc 500$btc. expecting the market to go sideways or down, but not up.
i am just happy that i get rid of the ltc in time and didnt make much loss.
for now placing my bids low and wait. 13$ltc 500$btc. expecting the market to go sideways or down, but not up.
Just took short profits and im leveraged long on Bitcoin from 575.
woot woot scared much?
woot woot scared much?
I had buy-ins triggered at 557.32, just sold at 575.
congrats. I made some nice money shorting from 620. dare I say not a good day for everyone though.
Today I learned how Bitfinex is never priced in your favour. early days.
Just took short profits and im leveraged long on Bitcoin from 575.
woot woot scared much?
woot woot scared much?
I had buy-ins triggered at 557.32, just sold at 575. No doubt Bitcoin will go up a bit more, look as though it is going to break out but actually break down etc and whipsaw everybody around as the exchanges empty the side of the order book with the majority of leveraged trades into their pockets, but for me, overall sentiment is still negative.
I will be away from home all day today and don't consider the risk of having open Bitcoin positions worthwhile at this point in time.
Just took short profits and im leveraged long on Bitcoin from 575.
woot woot scared much?
EDIT. - closed for $3 profit when I saw all that bloody arbitrage filling up. Ill get in lower.
woot woot scared much?
EDIT. - closed for $3 profit when I saw all that bloody arbitrage filling up. Ill get in lower.
Bought at $579 sold at $598 and bought again at $563.
I would have posted in real time but I was asleep for it
I would have posted in real time but I was asleep for it
Just placed a buy order at 530.17 to close my short positiion opened at 621.21
I hope it will be filled in the next hour.
Nick.
I hope it will be filled in the next hour.
Nick.
just bought 250 LTC @ $16.93 USD - looking to hold for 24 hours or less.
EDIT LOL got raped on that one but luckily still holding 7 BTC shots so all good.
EDIT LOL got raped on that one but luckily still holding 7 BTC shots so all good.
just bought
49.1 ltc for 1.42btc ~ 0.0289
and another
32 ltc for 1btc ~0.0307
49.1 ltc for 1.42btc ~ 0.0289
and another
32 ltc for 1btc ~0.0307
sold the ltc @ 17.30$ last night. lost a bit of the bubble profit with this trade.
full fiat atm.
ltc market looks bearish short term. on huobi 10k ltc bid walls just disappear before price reach them, its fake support.
but not confident with btc either.
I've come to the realization that doge now has 3% of the volume of that it had when I first started trading it and I should probably stop trading it until that changes.
Sold ~1/5 of my on-exchange BTC @590-595
does anyone else think it's time for a LTCUSD upswing/correction? I do. I will be looking to short heavily at 19.5 if it gets there.
There are divergences present in the charts. I do not see $19.5 happening but If I'm wrong, then I'll just make more profit, so we'll see
Edit:
Oh and BTW, I picked up a few million dogs in the 120's looking for 300's+ to exit
does anyone else think it's time for a LTCUSD upswing/correction? I do. I will be looking to short heavily at 19.5 if it gets there.
I opened a short on bfx at $610 to cover the coins I sent to btce. I don't feel like selling there for some reason. I might move them to cold storage.
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