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Jeremy Falcon wrote: there is active manipulation going on in most markets.
And yet, people still believe "experts" online...
You mean the 'active manipulators.'
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I love me some RSI! It isn't biased, it just reports how strong the trend is at the moment. I always trade with the trend, when I trade. Now, that said, if today is not an up day for the market or the security that interests me, I won't buy even if the trend is up. I never go long on a down day, no matter the trend. But if the market and the security are down, and the RSI remains above about 70, I'm going short. Actually, I never use shorts; I buy Puts. The leverage really helps. I find that, in a volatile market with a moron leading the Nation, a Buy and Hold strategy is incredibly stupid, so I've been swing trading and playing options. I'm told that 80% of securities follow market trends in pricing, no matter their fundamentals, so it really makes no sense to try to fight the market, unless you have insider information.
By the way, Jeremy, I use a product called VectorVest for investing knowledge and training. They have been very good to me. They have a YouTube channel, and they will be hosting a weekly live event tomorrow called "Trending Thursday" there. Plan to be there, and I think you might be impressed by the amount of knowledge they have to impart. I highly recommend their service...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I love me some RSI! It isn't biased
I love ya buddy, but gonna have to disagree there man. I don't think the RSI has a negative or positive bias btw. But, I do not think any indicator is the holy grail of anything. This is coming from over a decade of trading and going through many books, a personal hired tutor, self-study, years of back testing, years of watching the charts in real time. I've broken down the math. Written my own RSI in JavaScript. I fully understand it's a lagging indicator. Went through the novice teachings. Went through the advanced teachings. I could go on. I'm to the point now I can back test over a decade's worth of trades in seconds, using things like an RSI.
Did you ever read the book by the dude that invented RSI? I did. I've hosted meetup groups training other people. And so on and so on. I could go on, but it's been my experience that online... everyone tends to assume someone is a n00b or clueless when they post something. That's not me dude. I'm posting so people don't end up like Johnny and just lie about it to save face.
Roger Wright wrote: and the RSI remains above about 70
If you believe in that, you shouldn't, but if you're still at that level, don't forget to get confirmation in a higher timeframe. Not that it means squat, but if it gives you warm fuzzies.
Roger Wright wrote: , in a volatile market with a moron leading the Nation,
This is why I like you, man. 
Roger Wright wrote: I'm told that 80% of securities follow market trends in pricing, no matter their fundamentals, so it really makes no sense to try to fight the market, unless you have insider information.
Going with the RSI isn't necessarily going against the market. It's an oscillator, not psychic pixie dust. Which means, it could stay in overbought for along time while the market continues to go up. My point was pointing out the folly in assuming it can predict anything. But, totally agree you shouldn't fight the market.
Roger Wright wrote: By the way, Jeremy, I use a product called VectorVest for investing knowledge and training. They have been very good to me. They have a YouTube channel, and they will be hosting a weekly live event tomorrow called "Trending Thursday" there. Plan to be there, and I think you might be impressed by the amount of knowledge they have to impart. I highly recommend their service...
Thanks buddy, but I wouldn't be going unless I was training and they paid me. And, I already did the training others thing. Anyone that talks RSI over market theory, for instance, are not the people I'd trust. Their P&Ls I seriously doubt will be ever shown, without being doctored, etc.
Btw, the reason I stopped the meetup stuff is because I got tired of the BS. People were so egotistical about it all (not saying you) and lying about everything. Dunno what it is about money, but thar be a lot of ignorant folks with egos being fake and pretending in that circle. And they'll never show you their honest P&Ls.
Jeremy Falcon
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LOL!!! RSI is great, and I do use it, but it's not my GOTO. I like various combinations of moving averages, as well as a thing called the TTM Squeeze. But my real favorite is Options trading. I've been trading stocks since years before I passed the NASD Series 7 exam in 1987, but never touched options until about 5 years ago. What fun! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: but never touched options until about 5 years ago. What fun!
One of these days I'd want to play around with options too. I'm a Forex guy. Despite the bad press it gets because it's the wild west with so many scams, I love it. So, just focused on that.
Jeremy Falcon
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Roger Wright wrote: But my real favorite is Options trading
I don't know enough about options to get into it yet, but I'm reading up on it. I need to get more comfortable with it before I jump in.
-Sean
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Fire Nuts
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Enjoy! A couple of things to know - as long as you're buying, not selling, you are at no risk other than losing the premium you paid. When you sell, it's much riskier. Also, check the Volatility rating of the underlying stock before you select an option. If the Implied Volatility (IV) is higher than the Historical Volatility (HV) it's a sign that the options are overpriced. Only buy Calls in a rising market, on an up day for the underlying stock, and when IV<HV. The opposite is true for Puts, but you still want IV<HV. Another rule: Know your exits. As soon as I have an order filled, I set what's called an OCO order to sell. This consists of two orders, one a Limit order set for a 50% profit point, the other is a Stop order set at a 50% loss. Which ever one hits first, the other one is automatically cancelled. And a critical thing to look for before you buy is the Open Interest; if there are less than 100 open contracts, you may not find a buyer when it's time to get out.
Check out a website hosted by Brain Overby called, optionsplaybook.com. I've actually got his book, but the site is the exact same material, and it's free. There he details all of the types of options plays, how to set them up, and when to use each. Have fun!
Will Rogers never met me.
-- modified 28-Mar-24 18:08pm.
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Or just do the wheel... you sell options but with less risk than other strategies (if you do it properly). I explained above what is to Jeremy.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I know a number of people who use this method, and it seems to be reliable. I know I've taken a number of advanced classes from this VectorVest outfit, and I've enjoyed them all. But of all the techniques I've learned, trading options remains the most profitable. I still recall that, while taking the first options class I enrolled in, we were told the second week not to start anything until we're almost done with class! Too late, I read ahead and was already in. Before the class was over my profits had already paid for the course.  I can't say that my Engineering degree has done the same...
Will Rogers never met me.
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There's tons of TikTok videos that will set you straight, easy peasy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Gonna get a Bob themed lambo...
Jeremy Falcon
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If you are interested in 6502 (and/or computing history) this video is absolutely worth a watch.
He has a bunch of quality videos for retro but this one is great for the history.
The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! - YouTube[^]
EDIT: Includes interview with Bill Mensch (one of original designer/creators of 6502).
modified 27-Mar-24 9:26am.
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Bender from Futurama CPU of choice!
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That's the chip i learned to code on! I love that lil guy.
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honey the codewitch wrote: That's the chip i learned to code on!
I'm very curious about a number of things. If you don't want to answer, no pressure I understand.
What year were you learning 6502?
Were you learning this on your own? Or part of some school?
What was your programming rig? IDE? Device programmer? etc.
I'm thinking you learned this back in the 80s or 90s maybe and I'm curious how you had access to that stuff? I remember having a C64 and having no idea how to program it to do anything worthwhile because all I had was BASIC and the other alternative was 6502 Assembly but I didn't know how / where I would've learned that back then.
Just curious.
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1986, on the venerable Apple ][ machines. I got a ][gs at home but i did most of my coding at school labs at the time. I was 8 so there was no programming classes at the time, but we at least had apple labs. Most of the kids played Oregon Trail. I was still into building frankenbikes and stuff in my off time before i really caught the coding bug so like i said, mostly i did it at school to kill time, a bit at home too though, especially as I gained interest.
I learned on my own starting with the BASIC programming manual that came with the Apple ][gs. I was using it in 8-bit 6502 compatibility mode until like a year later.
raddevus wrote: What was your programming rig?
Apple ][gs in 8-bit mode, and Apple ][e's mostly. Though a friend had a ][c, and later i got a commodore.
raddevus wrote: IDE?
Surely you jest!  I eventually picked up TML pascal on the ][gs but before that I had no IDE. Just a prompt and either BASIC, asm, or manual machine code (before i learned about the mini assembler)
raddevus wrote: Device programmer?
First one was an Arduino board in more recent years.
raddevus wrote: I'm thinking you learned this back in the 80s or 90s maybe and I'm curious how you had access to that stuff?
Yeah, my parents bought a ][gs as soon as it was released, and we had apple labs at our very well funded schools.
Libraries gave me access to computer mags like Byte. I learned machine code by more or less reverse engineering the code I'd find in magazines. I can't remember it now because I switched to asm as soon as I discovered the ][c and later had it.
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Wow! You were extremely young to begin learning to code like that.
Yeah, the question about IDE was a bit off
Fantastic information. Thanks for sharing! 
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FWIW I learned 6502 assembler in the '80s on my Acorn Atom, that had a BASIC with a brilliant inline 6502 Assembler; you could seamlessly interleave BASIC and 6502 code. The manual documented lots of information about the internals and OS API which was also very useful.
The Atom, for those who aren't familiar, was the predecessor to the BBC Micro, itself the predecessor to the Acorn Archimedes (which was technically way ahead of the Lisa and Macintosh) and Acorn Computers begat ARM. Heady days! "Acorn Computers" was a prescient name for something small that grew so big and strong, doncha think?
I still have my Acorn Atom, with manuals, but no suitable TV for video output.☹️
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Did not know Acorn was the ARM predecessor. Neat.
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ARM == Acorn Risc Machine
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I learnt 6502 assembly on the BBC Micro (by Acorn). The assembler embedded in BASIC made that a cheap and convenient option.
Still use that skill from time to time. And the 6502 is still manufactured, by the way. Still useful as a fast, reliable embedded device.
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FWIW I learned 6502 assembler in the '80s on my Acorn Atom, that had a BASIC with a brilliant inline 6502 Assembler; you could seamlessly interleave BASIC and 6502 code. The manual documented lots of information about the internals and OS API which was also very useful.
The Atom, for those who aren't familiar, was the predecessor to the BBC Micro, itself the predecessor to the Acorn Archimedes (which was technically way ahead of the Lisa and Macintosh) and Acorn Computers begat ARM. Heady days! "Acorn Computers" was a prescient name for something small that grew so big and strong, doncha think?
I still have my Acorn Atom, with manuals, but no suitable TV for video output.☹️
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Saw the 6502 reference in the newsletter, so, got to here.
In 1980, my high school got 3 Commodore PET computers - 16K each. Commodore had a deal - buy 2 get one, so a number of teachers or parents pooled their many and bought them. A friend's dad bought one, so we had ready access to it. Not sure how we got access to the programming manual, but we did.. and taught ourselves.
Jim Butterfield wrote an assembly program that we got a copy of and the assembly code list, so we taught ourselves 6502 assembler as well.
The following year, the school got 12 more computers, so access to more people.
Still, we simply taught ourselves.
Programs I remember writing: a two-person shooting games with cowboys, solitaire Hearts, a Star Trek type kill the aliens game, and, in assembly, fill the screen with random characters and execute a bubble sort to sort the screen characters.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Jim Butterfield wrote an assembly program that we got a copy of and the assembly code list, so we taught ourselves 6502 assembler as well.
Wow! Amazing.
I had a Coleco Adam in 1984 or so and I would type programs into the BASIC interpreter and they would invariably fail. Once they would fail I was lost for how to fix them. I'm pretty sure my brain did not use any logic back then. Only emotions. But I would sit and stare at the computer, however, that did not fix any of the bugs.
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Sorry to chime in here, but the questions are just too funny and show how much folks today are removed from those early days of "personal computing"... 
I learned 6502 assembler on my very first own computer, back in late 1976, a MOS Technology KIM-1. With 2KB ROM and un-upgraded, 1152 bytes of RAM...
Input was a hex keyboard, output was a 6-digit LED 7 segment display (think old calculator). Not very IDE friendly...
All programming at that point was done via entering hex addresses and opcodes, using the "monitor" contained in the onboard ROM. Only documentation was the manual that MOS provided with the board, which contained little more than the opcodes/mnemonics and a VERY brief description what they did. I think it was at least a couple more years before I bought Rodney Zaks' books "Programming the 6502" and "Programming the Z80", which were kind of the bibles for assembly programming back then...
As that set very quickly limits on what I could do with it, I upgraded it to a whooping 4KB of RAM, which enabled me to painstakingly enter the hex codes for a version of Tiny BASIC. Saved and reloaded before use from a tape cassette recorder, this also didn't leave much room for further programming adventures and further memory upgrades and other stuff (video interface or serial terminal) were out of reach for my high school students budget. But by that time, 1977 had come around and the first "real" microcomputers, and while still too expensive for me to by one of those myself, I was able to access someone else's brand spanking new TRS-80 Model I and started to write my first programs for money, until, together with selling my KIM-1, allowed me to buy my own TRS-80 clone and started the long and winding road I am still on today...
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