Swing trading seeks to take advantage of a trend or the reversal of a trend in the market. We look to hold our swing trades for 1/2 day to 5 days. Swing trading is different from traditional day trading in that we are willing to hold trades through intro-day price fluctuations. The market always has a dominant trend, however, there are also a number of smaller trends covering various time periods. Swing trading aims at taking advantage of the shorter term trend changes, or swings, that take place in a stock within the dominant trend to profit in the market.

It is said that professional traders need only 1 to 3 setups and tactics to make a very nice living from the market. We will introduce over a dozen such setups and trading tactics that have worked well for us. Much has been said recently about the high failure rate in trading. I would like to briefly touch on this. I will be the first person to admit to you that most people who give very active trading a try are not going to find the success they had hoped for. There are many reasons for this. I feel one of the primary causes of failure amongst traders is a lack of education. Let us look at this in another manner. Lets assume for a minute that you and I want to go into business together, we want to open a restaurant.

If you call the small business administration right now, they will tell you we have about a 90% chance of failure, much the same as in trading. Now lets assume for a minute that neither you or I know how to cook, or how to run a business? What in the world are we doing starting a restaurant in the first place? If however you are one of the best chefs around, and I have very good business skill, our odds are obviously above 10%. My purpose in starting this thread is education, which is the key to assure that your chances of long term success are above 10%

Don’t let him leave without telling him how much you care about him – its obvious you do in spite of all the hassles. Sit him down and let him know how you really feel, and if what you feel is that there is a place in your family that is going to never be filled by anyone else – let him know that! If you feel that you would let him come back if things dont work out, let him know that too. One of the hardest things to say to anyone is “I love you” because you are putting yourself out there for rejection but you might be surprised – he might feel the same way but never wanted to say because it isnt a manly thing!

My little nephew handles it quite well – that he has a Tamworth home and an Adelaide home and people that love him in both places. Maybe just tell him that because people move away it doesn’t mean they don’t love you anymore – my nephew always asks me “Do you still love me there in Adelaide Aunty?” and I always say “I love you wherever I am and wherever you are ” It’s going to be hard but little kids always seem to adapt the best. You might also want to tell your SK that you are worried how 3yo will take it.

My parents were sometimes a pain in the a** while I was growing up, and sometimes I wished they would go away, but the reason I miss them is because they were always there for me and because they loved me enough to tell me the hard truths. The truth is that you love your husband, and therefore by proxy you love your SK – no matter what! and you might not realized it yourself up till now.. Its hard to let go of other people – I was happy for my parents and felt they deserved to go off and enjoy their life without us kids in the way but I still really miss them and wish they could come back home.

My personal algorithm involves minimizing the risk of going insane, which means maximizing the ease of finding something in the new place when I need it. I pack by location: everything in the cupboard over the sink goes in one box. Cabinet under the silverware drawer goes in another box. Everything on the coffee table or end table in another box. Etc. Then when I discover I need something that used to be in the drawer next to the refrigerator, I can go directly to that box. The other essential hint is: pack your bedding in one box and UNPACK THAT FIRST and make the bed. Then no matter what happens, your bed will be ready when you are too tired to go on. Also pack a suitcase so you have your toothbrush, etc. Allow yourself to eat at restaurants 3 times a day.

Thanks for all the sensible advice! Now, anyone want to try the puzzle? Just to get the ball rolling, my spoilers below… 1) Set up boxes all over the floor. Run through the house with a big stick, knocking all items off shelves into the boxes. Close the boxes. 2) Set up boxes in all rooms, and pack items exactly from their own position. Label boxes according to the room they’re to be unpacked in. 3) Pack books in their own boxes, since they tend to stack neatly (especially standard format paperbacks) Pack ornaments in another box, with children’s soft toys and cushions as packing material. Pack kitchenware in stacks, with food packed inside saucepans etc. 4) Pretty much the same as 3, but with added newspaper.

Follow the Rat’s method from The Wind in the Willows: ‘Here’s a sword for the Rat, here’s a sword for the Mole, here’s a sword for the Toad, here’s a sword for the Badger, here’s a pistol for the Rat, here’s a pistol for the Mole, here’s a pistol for the Toad, here’s a pistol for the Badger. All minimized by hitching the trailer to a car/tractor, then moving it no more than a few feet. 1) none 2) none 3) none 4) slight if you move slowly and carefully and the distance is short 5) since there are no boxes, there’s no variance Cost is also minimal. Solution applies only to trailer park housing. Economy storage boxes, large (12W x 9H x 18L) and small (12W x 9H x 15L) (both estimated- check your favorite office supply store for ‘record storage boxes’ or similar.

Get lots.) ‘Dish Barrel’ boxes (2 x 2 x 3 feet) (moving company sells these) ‘Wardrobes’ (about 2.5 feet square by 5 feet high) (moving company sells these) Books and other ‘small, heavy’ stuff goes in the economy boxes Medium size stuff in the ‘dish barrels’ Clothing and long stuff (upright vacuum cleaners, etc) in the wardrobes. Also, larger, lighter-weight things go in them. Use blankets, bedspreads, and similar for cushioning in all the boxes, as needed. The uniform box sizes help a lot in stacking piles, and the 5 foot high wardrobes make a good base upon which to place furniture or similarly large items (furniture on it’s back or top, so legs won’t puncture boxes). OR, place the _light_ storage boxes on top of the wardrobes. Of course, all boxes should be labeled. A few assorted rolls of colored tape are good to use. Each room (Living, Bed, Kitchen, Bath) has a color code. Next to the tape, a brief description of contents. Items you will need right away are coded with an extra piece of tape, and are to be left accessible.

At Reading Station today, I could see five trains moving at once – an HST (heading towards London?) in the middle distance, two EMUs leaving n the same direction in parallel (one veered left at the first junction, IIRC). Then there were two cl. 47 services arriving from the opposite end; my service to BNS, from Kensington Olympia, and another. Is this unusual there? Where else in the UK, outside London, can so many trains be seen moving at once? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the only electrified lines at Reading were platforms 4a & 4b, both of which temporarily merge into one line at the end of the platforms… in which case if 2 were moving at once, they would hit each other (unless at least one stops before it reaches the end of the not-so-lengthy platform). Indeed the 4A & 4B platforms do finish at a short section of single line, so if two did leave at the same time one of them would be in the road below or the other foul of the down main from Paddington ?

Indeed the 4A & 4B platforms do finish at a short section of single line, so if two did leave at the same time one of them would be in the road below or the other foul of the down main from Paddington ? Believe it or not, I saw this at Harrow & Wealdstone yesterday. Following a bridge bash, there were trains crawling on 5 of the 6 lines (not the up DC) while it was inspected. Sadly the Bakerloo did not come out of the siding to make it 6! When they are running at normal speed it would be very unlikely to see so many on the move at once, but the crawl over the bridge was taking about 5 minutes. Gatwick would be a good starting point. With a suitable vantage point you could see six trains in or near the platforms at one time, on occasions, and others approaching or leaving in the middle distance.

On the other hand, the other Saturday our Connex Rugby-Brighton train was the only one at the platforms. I’ve never seen that before. Presumably a result of the Gatwick Express being cut to 2 trains an hour during the Redhill-Purley blockade. Well, you can’t “see” the low-level at the same time as the main station, so how do the rules deal with that? I was told that Partick holds some kind of record, but I’m not exactly sure what it is (number of trains per hour, perhaps, thanks to the convergence of the lines from QS and from Central). One time I was due to meet a friend at Partick who was coming in from the Highlands: the friendly staff insisted that I go up onto the platform to wait for her.

She was 40 mins late and they were _most_ solicitous when we finally emerged down at the barrier. I still don’t know whether by rights I ought to have had a platform ticket, but the public relations effect of their friendliness was duly noted (she used to work for Via Rail in Canada, and was very interested in all the operational details). (She was particularly curious about the signals. Apparently in Canada all the signal heads are supposed to show one or other colour – if any head is ever dark then it’s a fault).