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In the reply to post on Sun, Jun 19 2005 "NOW" you say: "To manifest your result try putting some tension in your intention". How do I put tension in my intention?

Hi Ed,

I am really hanging on to my snapshot of “Letting go.”

I enjoy both hanging on and letting go. There is a cool spot where they feel like one. I am bringing that feeling to the Tribe next week.

Per an interview on [TV]


[Famous Economist] said that he's worried about the speculative bubble in housing and the fact that more than 1/4 of all consumer spending is now sustained by that bubble, plus the fact that 20 million citizens could lose their homes in a collapse of the speculative bubble in housing, and that the Fed and, indeed, central banks worldwide would act in concert out of desperation to re-inflate the global economy in the process, creating an inflationary spiral unheralded in the economic history of the planet.

"Where does it end?" [Economist] was asked and he said, "Utter global collapse." Not simply economic collapse; complete disintegration of all infrastructure and of all public structures of governments. Utter, utter collapse. That the end is collapse of simply epic proportion.

In 10 years time, he said, whoever is still alive on the planet will be effectively starting again."

[He] blamed everything on what he calls [The Regime].

He says "they have now consolidated power and money on the planet to the maximum extent possible. The planet's net liquidity, that is its, net free cash flow. Is now a negative number. The planet is not simply sinking into a sea of red ink; it is already sunk. The people just don't realize it yet."

[He] says [The Regime] is preparing the nation for transition from democracy into dictatorship because a dictatorship will be necessary to control, in 5 years´ time, food and water riots."

He said [the government] is going to have to build now huge detention compounds on federal lands, probably in the West where the land is available, to potentially house 50 million or more citizens that will be in financial ruin."

[He] went on to say "Food production will fall. Any further effort to control environmental destruction will be abandoned. Inflation will run into the double and eventually triple digits. People will be carrying around U.S. dollars in wheelbarrows like Germany."

[He] said there would be "total collapse of public infrastructure. Total collapse of medical care systems. All public pension plans, Social Security will collapse. All corporate pension plans will collapse."

[He] backed up his comments with statistics in one statement he said "But, 14% of all real estate transactions now being interest-only mortgages, and another 14% of people now, that, when they bought their homes, originated more than 100% of the purchase price in the mortgage and then borrowed further."

He said "The American consumer is effectively now supporting the rest of the planet, consumption rates in all other nations are falling, have fallen to the point that the tax revenues to governments, that the business and industries those nation states are providing is now a net negative number relative to total debt service and public cost, that this exists in virtually every nation state on the planet now."

He said "More importantly, and I'm trying to think how we imply this or how we express this to the people, what extraordinary times we are living in and how the destruction of the planet has been engineered by [The Regime] which has effectively destroyed the economic liquidity of the planet."

When ... the interviewer said "you have sold all of your real estate and you are moving into one of the new super-secure [compounds] for when the ´barbarians will be at the gate.´

[He] replied "those barbarians will be potentially a third of the American population."

[He] ended his comments by saying that "he hopes that he is not alive to see this. The lucky ones are the ones who are my age now."

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Hello Ed,



I have been zooming in and out of charts and they seem to be the same and only deferent in ratio; isn’t trading systematically a lesser price frame provide a higher compounding rate? I am not talking about trading a tiny price frame, but maybe what matches our equity so that one can track daily or program into a trading system.


Ed, I have to mention what I said in my previous emails, beware of using “TIME” in trading, the only reliable mechanical part is the price and the only way to measure or trade a trend is to split it up into numeric price intervals, and time may not in any way determine the break-out or interval length, also price volatility cannot be measured because prediction is impossible, yet profit/loss volatility of the various traded securities can be used to balance the trading sizes between traded securities which leads to decrease equity volatility at account level by reducing risk at volatile securities while profitable securities are trending.

The point is that Time does not make money; therefore logically we may remove it from the trading system. Does it matter if the price moves from A to B in 1 day or 20 days? Logically it doesn’t because even the stop-losses on the way do not depend on time; they depend on the price movement.

Sorry to use non-compliant TTP language, I am working on my SVO-p slowly.

Please could you tell me what your terms and conditions are for trade sales.

Kind Regards

Dear Ed,

I have read with interest your Q&A on the Trading Tribe website over the past two years. I also read the first chapter of your new book on the website. Both are very interesting!

My question is this:

Is it really possible for one to stop recurrent cycles of behavior, to change ???

Hello Ed,


Fred and CM way of communicating seems vague to me, maybe my feeling of vague derives from CM unwilling to experience understanding things which produces the feeling of vagueness.

When some chemicals in our brains are going from one form to the other in a natural way yet they get interrupted by an outside event and maintain state which keeps affecting us when the situation is deferent but the feeling is still there. Maybe for example I have a car accident and suffer pain, I may not drive a car again because I don’t want to experience danger, years later Fred may expose me to dangers in other situations trying to communicate the feeling of danger, the solution maybe simply to drive a car again and experience danger while weighing achievement over danger, just like how we assess risk in trading, we count the profit/loss ratio and not profits or losses separately.

Actually, maybe lying does the same thing. For example, if someone calls office saying he is sick while he is just lazy then Fred will try to communicate pain but of course it can’t because there is not physical pain, years forward he may experience Fred trying to communicate pain by unconsciously directing to physical danger. The cure for lying is to act truthfully causing the feeling of pain to be moved from Fred to the conscious mind by telling the truth. What I mean is that CM may not accept what is not there, like pretending being in pain causing Fred to keep trying to feel it.

I have heard that we can be our own enemy but never fully understood how it works, it’s actually the feelings we don’t communicate that clogs our logic while trying to get out, I mean just imagine we are willing to feel anything? It would be great because then nothing with remain in the mind, feelings will be fully experienced and disappear making space for other feelings to take place and this may lead to what we call being in the zone, which we actually don’t have a problem with our selves anymore but we react logically with the present task.

I my self talk a lot, most of my talk is not regarding the subject in hand, its not really abstract but I talk what comes to mind.  I used to feel great and achieve more, when it comes to office life no one puts effort to communicate which I don’t feel comfortable with what they call professionalism at the work place. They keep having social events like a fun day out and many others which most of the attendees just attend because they have to; it feels like dictating what to feel, I mean its called a “Fun Day”, what I mean is that it’s not real.

Commercials, Ads, TV, Movies and everything communicates feelings, is our lifestyle totally faulty? For example in Advertising I think that communicating benefits of the product is alright but telling us how to feel is not alright. I like trading because even though I see the historical trend on the chart I still know that my actions have to be generic and relative to simple probabilities which makes me feel good all the time because even though there are losses I know that I am doing the right thing because what is happening is within my probability range, what I mean is that my feelings are derived from logical a process and not from the profits at the end of the process.

Maybe writing to you makes me feel good and that is why I am doing so; you must be a good receiver.

Something I noticed in the movie “Fight Club”, I like this movie because it points out that no one is special but what we do is; another idea it communicates clearly is that we should always let our feelings out and experience our feelings.