"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

Read more...

The "vix" in the stock market

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

Read more...

Bible_Belt

Master Don Juan
Joined
Jul 27, 2005
Messages
17,578
Reaction score
6,360
Age
50
Location
midwestern cow field 40
A few of the guys I day traded with would watch it, just as one indicator among many. A lot depends upon the time frame of your trading.

I used to work at a place that ran a 2-week school for day traders. Most of what we taught involved the things to not do, like the common newbie mistakes.

One good thing to remember about indicators is that almost all of them use past prices as part of the calculation. New guys tend to think that they are all magic ways to see the future. But if price is part of it, then you're looking at the past, not the future. An experienced trader who just reads price action can know everything that 101 indicators can tell you, because they are based upon the same price movement.
 

dasein

Master Don Juan
Joined
Sep 9, 2013
Messages
1,109
Reaction score
207
It's a CBOE index option, so would check out the CBOE webpage, www.cboe.com. Put "vix" in the search window and get tons of info. As far as trading strategies, I'm sure there are many there and elsewhere. I have not traded the index or used it myself.
 

Fatal Jay

Master Don Juan
Joined
Oct 26, 2012
Messages
1,719
Reaction score
114
My mentor told me the vix is what keeps the rich from losing.
 

Bible_Belt

Master Don Juan
Joined
Jul 27, 2005
Messages
17,578
Reaction score
6,360
Age
50
Location
midwestern cow field 40
Being rich is what keeps the rich from losing.

Most intraday trading is now automated. Computers don't have emotions; most trading programs will buy when price dips quickly and sell when price jumps up quickly. That's the exact opposite of human nature. When it was just humans doing the trading, we had a lot more intraday volatility.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

Read more...

Top