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koos2
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Business men, they drink my wine Plowman dig my earth None were level on the mind Nobody up at his word Hey, hey No reason to get excited The thief he kindly spoke There are many here among us
koos2
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we JUST AINT GONNA BE FRIENDS boet, circa 1990 jan/feb, what 1 man can do another can do.
Russ
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I still say a single price on its own is meaningless.It seems that Simon will look at that price in relation to a whole lot of earlier prices to determine whether it is in a trend or not. Then you have to decide what time frame you are looking at, because AGL can trend up and down many times in a single day, if you are looking at a five minute chart. So the question is how do you determine when a trend has started and how do you determine when it ends? The answer will depend on your time frame, surely? Skaaptjop might think that AGL is still in a long term down trend while others will have just taken advantage of a great uptrend for the past few weeks. But if I just tell you that AGL's price now is R96.58 that is meaningless unless you put it into some context. Am I right??
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that is deep dude! But yes, current price move needs to be taken in context of the past. Gold stocks can easily move 5% in a day. if you are long ANG, and you have a 2% stop loss - you are going to get taken out with probably a 95% certainty. Your system is simply not taking in the 'noise' associated with market volatility. Another example of trade the price. AGL, by all rights, should be tanking. Dismal results, depressed market, CEO breaking up the company, yet it is rallying. No point trying to fight something when there is clearly news out there we don't know. Where technical analysis comes into play (and I am with Simon on the lack of value of indicators) is what happens now. Price action is telling us that AGL is reaching a point where buyers are drying out (doji candles, etc). This to me is a tempting time to get in for another short soon (some would look for confirmation - I don't trade like that personally).