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Archive
chat log @ https://www.thestrategylab.com/103006FuturesTrades.htm
My real name is
M.A. Perry and I'm the owner of
this website called TheStrategyLab.com
and I've
only had two online user names: wrbtrader (since early 2010)
& NihabaAshi (martial arts and
Japanese Candlestick term until late 2009).
I publicly announced
the user name change from NihabaAshi to
wrbtrader at several online forums that I was a
member of at the time of the user name change
with the approval of the forum owners
prior to the change. I've never
used any other online user name nor have I used
any VPNs nor rented IP addresses to hide my
identity or hide my online presence.
I use the wrbtrader
user name at all resources of TheStrategyLab
and at other social media (e.g. Twitter, Stocktwits, TradingView, Youtube, Google,
forums, chat rooms). The photo in most of my
social media trader profiles are different
screenshots of my broker PnL statements with
timestamp trade fills...updated once per
year.
Many
images like the above image at my website and
forum represents what many users in the private
chat room were able to see when they joined screen
sharing...while live trading with real
money. I took a quick screenshot during the screen
sharing for marketing purposes within
a few minutes after I completed my
last trade of the trading day...trades shown in
the broker trade execution platform that do in
fact correlate
with the trades posted in the free chat room.
I
then redacted these screenshots for marketing
purposes (e.g. the redaction area often contains a
TheStrategyLab advertisement message) and to
document my main monitor workstation because my
charts are often different from one trading day to
the next trading day. The redacted screenshot
is then posted immediately within my public
daily trade journal.
- In
addition, this allows me to document who was
in the free chat room...posting trades and not
posting trades so that I can review their
private thread to see if they posted redacted
screenshots of trade fills in their broker
trade execution platform.
Verification
of Trade Performance @
https://www.thestrategylab.com/wrb/forum/viewforum.php?f=344
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My other monitors are
never shown for privacy and security
reasons to minimize copyright
violations.
These other monitors
in my private trade journal contains
my charts for my intermarket analysis,
intramarket analysis, correlation
analysis, volatility analysis, key kme wrb
zones, chart configurations and other trading
tools. Also, I store in
my private trade journal other screenshots
(complete trade fill window, complete
audit trail window, broker statement, and
quantitative statistical analysis from
professional trade journal software).
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wrbtrader review
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Trading Background of
wrbtrader
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I have +25 years trading
experience with most of it as a full time retail
trader. I'm the sole owner of
TheStrategyLab.com although I do get an
occasional help from other traders which is
why you may see me use the word "we" sometimes
at my website and forum.
My first public experience in the
trading business was as a
moderator for a QCharts chat
room and then as a moderator for FutureSource
Workstation chat room. Both chat rooms were
not
supported by the charting software but we did
have a few customer service reps from the
companies as members that were able to help
with support of their software.
It was during
this time period with the customer service
reps that I started experimenting with "live
screen sharing" with members of the
chat room and the customer service reps for
real-time useful instructions on how to better
use their trading software. In fact, the chat
room discussion was primary about the charting
program or trade execution platform. After I
closed those chat rooms (mainly because they
changed or reduced their referral
compensation) I got involved with a chat room
named #EminiFutures.
The
chat room name changed a few times until
a few guys using my price action
analysis called WRB
Analysis
to study the markets with their trade
signal strategies asked me to help them
moderate their chat room because they
were bothered by persistent spammers of
automated trading systems / custom
indicators / signal calling trade trade
alert rooms and persistent trolls trying
to use their chat room to argue with
other members about anything related to
trading the markets and not related to
trading the markets.
By
the way, I am the creator of WRB Analysis aka
Wide Range Body Analysis in high school
in the mid 1980s. Today, there are a few similar
like price action analysis floating around on
the internet by others but they all do not use
the same key concepts as WRB Analysis. In fact,
although WRB Analysis is only a price action
analysis (not a trade signal strategy)...most
are just failed trade signal strategies such as
Wide Range Bar Analysis for bar chart
traders that do not put any emphasis on
economic calendars as explained @ What is WRB Analysis.
Now
back to the website TheStrategyLab, initially
was just a discussion forum (not a
website) for like minded traders using WRB
Analysis in the late 90's before it became also
a website. The reason why it also became a
website was because of the heavy competition
between other well known discussions forums. I
thought having a forum, website and moderating a
public free chat room would give exposure to the
forum and website.
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Archive
chat log @
https://www.thestrategylab.com/022608FuturesTrades.htm
I agreed to
moderate a public free chat room and the first
thing I did was make each member register for
access to the free chat room. I then changed
the free chat room from public
access
to
private access.
Next, I begin to
attract more futures traders with the hope
that the stock traders would eventually move
to other chat rooms specific for stock traders
as the conversation slowly changed to more
futures talk and less talk about stocks. In
fact, stock traders did move to other chat
rooms after I posted a list of chat rooms for
stock traders on IRC that were free and not
involved in any signal calling trade alert
service.
I then changed
the name to #FuturesTrades but soon afterwards
the spammers showed up again to market their
automated trading systems & custom
indicators. Also, we had forum owners showing
up in your chat room trying to encourage our
chat room members to join their forum because
the forum had a chat room...that's how popular
our chat room was in the beginning. It caught
the eye of several popular forums. Yet, the
forum owners could not moderate (keep the
peace between their chat room members) their
chat room well enough and they eventually
closed their chat rooms to just focus on being
a forum. A good decision for them because it
allowed them to attract more sponsors.
We
then moved our free chat room from the
Othernet server to the
Freenode server
and currently on the Libera server
for a fresh start and to attract Futures
traders specifically using WRB Analysis.
By the way, the only reason why I
changed IRC servers for my free chat
room was due to the fact that both
Othernet and Freenode had crashed. Soon
afterwards...we changed the free chat
room name from #FuturesTrades to
#TheStrategyLab.
In addition, the free chat room became
specific for only users of WRB Analysis
while we kicked /
banned
the last few trolls trying to
defend their automated trading systems
& custom indicators that had
no
verification of trade performance. Our
motto statement to these trolls between
2008 - 2011 were not
a morsel of evidence of
trade performance. It was a statement we
only used in private message with those
we banned for not verifying
their trade performance when they used
our free chat room.
In fact,
whenever we met someone that used that
statement (not a morsel of
evidence) in a conversation with
us...it is a statement (digital
fingerprint) that identifies the
person as someone we banned in
the past for violation of our terms of use policy
and as someone that is now contacting
us as a fake identity to try
re-entering our resources.
We then
decided to shake out the last few trouble
makers in our free chat room because they
consistently would log in via different IP
addresses, used rented email addresses and
they targeted (harassed) many of our members
that posted verification of
trade performance...real-time
trade posts, brokerage statements and some
members did live screen sharing of
their broker trade execution platform
specifically with me while the trolls were not
allowed access to the live screen sharing
because they could not post verification of
their own trade performance.
We lost about
50% - 60% of our members mainly due to the
fact our qualification rules for access to our
free chat room also identified whom were
trying to use our free chat room as a signal
calling trade alert room for the purpose to
copy / mimic / piggyback / replicate trades
posted by other members...a violation of our terms of use policy.
Next, we lost another 20% due to the nature of
several new online social media resources...twitter,
stocktwits
and tradingview.
Yet, the anger
by the trolls started when I begin
permanent bans of members that
attempted to use the live screen sharing
or the free chat room as a signal calling
trade alert service...mimicking / copying /
piggybacking / replicating real-time trades by
other members without
their permission. Yeah, I got a very bad
reputation from 2005 - 2009 due to the
bans...I just don't like lazy traders nor am I
interested in babysitting traders that think
they are entitled to something off the backs
of my hard working members that were freely
sharing their real-time price action
analysis and real-time trades.
Why
bother having a free chat room after all of the
above crap
?
I have
personal friends...traders I traded with in
person in an office (France and the
United States) for several years prior to me
moving to Canada and prior to one of the friends
moving back to Portugal...all of us were using the
chat room to stay
connected in real time during trading
considering a few of us were residing in a
different country.
Thus, the
chat room initially started between personal
friends using the exact same broker trade
execution platform or same data vendor (charts)
before it was merged with another chat room and
then morphed into what it is today. Further, my
management style of the chat room, I wanted to
protect that online connection with new members in
the chat room.
In
hindsight...the chat room should have
remained private as a closed social trader
network...inviting only traders that I personally
know or inviting traders that my friends
personally know...no outsiders instead of merging
it with a public chat room. Yet, after all of the
problems with trolls, spammers, problematic
members...it was worth it because I have made new
online friends (traders I do not know personally)
with far more trading knowledge than myself that
still share their knowledge with me today. It has
helped me to become consistently profitable
because late 1990s and early 2000s I had too many
wide swings in my profit/loss level.
Now I have
more consistency in my trading performance after
gaining more knowledge about position size
management, intermarket analysis, intramarket
analysis, stress management, behavior finance,
risk of ruin along with a better understanding
about how to use/view trading as a business due to
what I've learned from other chat room members
educating me about these specific topics. In
addition, I've personally met a few members when
traveling on vacation with my family...thanks to
the free chat room in comparison to any trader
forum. Simply, at the end of the day...the free
chat room has been worth it.
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I'm a
discretionary
retail trader
that uses a rule base objective trade method
via the foundation of WRB
Analysis.
I say this only because I'm not an automated
trader. I use several different trade
strategies that I adapt every year because
market conditions are always changing. These
strategies are specifically designed for
different types of market conditions.
Rules of my trade
methods are well defined and very strict
although there's aspects of my trading that's
involved in my consistent profits that most
traders underestimate their importance. Those
aspects involves behavior finance, trader
psychology, cognitive decision making and
trading experience. These critical areas are
important in my trading due to the fact I do
not
use automation nor am I involved in any
algorithm trading although I'm aware that the
markets are controlled by algorithm
institutional trading.
Trading to me is
part art,
part psychology and
part science.
I put more emphasis in my trading on trader
psychology, behavioral finance, and trade
experience to form the part art/psychology
aspect of my trading. In contrast, my trade
methods are the part science and with all of
them working together...its the basis of my
trading while knowing on any given trading
day...one will have more impact on my trading
results than the others.
Yet,
to be very clear...I share my Advance WRB
Analysis and Volatility Trading Strategies for a
fee. In contrast, the WRB Analysis free study
guide & Fading Volatility Breakout (FVB)
trade strategy are free. This is not mentoring...I do not teach how to trade.
Also, the reason why I share a lot of free stuff
for traders to use is that it's for their due
diligence prior to purchase of my
price action analysis or trade signal
strategies. In addition, I talk a lot about key
concepts involving my trade methods in the free
chat room for anyone to review that are
not
included in the fee base trade strategies. For
example, hundreds of discussions in the free
chat room about how I use the VIX (CBOE
volatility index) & personal trading habits
for position size management & risk
management...impacting my profit level
enormously - wrbtrader - M.A.
Perry - TheStrategyLab
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Personal Background of
wrbtrader
Proud military veteran
that honorably served 6 years in the U.S. Army
as an Air Assault Ranger as a military officer
after college. I'm from a military family and
educated in France / United States. Lived in
France, United States, South Korea,
Canada...currently my primary residence is in
Canada with residences in the United States and
France.
I
have lived in other countries because I enjoy
traveling, meeting different cultures and
service in the military. Realizing later after I
dug deep
into my family heritage history, family
military/battles history and family travel
history...all of the stories passed down from
generation to generation...it's in my blood.
I
was born in France. I'm a citizen of France and
the United States. I own residences in France
(inherited), United States (inherited) and
Canada. I was raised in Chicago North area,
Illinois although I spent most of my youth
(summers only) living with family in South
Dakota. Educated at a university in the Big Ten
(undergrad school) / France and Pac 10 (grad
school). Currently residing in Québec
City, Province du Québec, Canada with my own
family (two kids and ex-spouse)...my children
born in Québec City.
Currently,
I'm in a relationship with a beautiful
indigenous Iroquoian woman that's a
direct descendent of her ancestors that had
traveled, hunted and war in eastern New York
area (Lake Champlain)...she is one of the nurses
that took care of me when I was hospitalized
the fall of 2016...she helps me to
understand the many dreams and visions I had
when I was in a coma.
I speak French,
English, Lakota (grandmother's language) and a
little Portuguese (learned in college).
It's
important that language and its stories doesn't
die...reason why I spent the summers of my youth
living in South Dakota to learn the culture
& language of my grandmother (Lakota of three great bands
of the Siouan family) and elders. It's a
disappearing language...less
than 20%
of the Lakota Sioux speak Lakota in comparison
to today that most speak only English. This
sadden my father because he believed that
language is the heart beat of culture. This is
why I lived with my grandmother in the summers
as a child until I became an adult and then
joined the U.S. Army. She knew the language and
family history of my Siouan ancestors along with
the history of the land that had been passed
down in our family from
generation to generation since the 1700s.
Lakota
(Lakhóta, Lakhótiyapi),
spoken by about 9,000 people in seven tribes, the
Oglala, in the US states of Northern Nebraska,
southern Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota,
northeastern Montana and in Canada.
Research...I've found many say there's only about
2,000 first-language Lakota speakers in the
Dakotas alone in combo with 6,000 second-language
speakers overall with a growing age for the
average speaker is +65 years. It is a severely
endangered language.
My parents felt the only way to
maintain the history & culture was for me to
live with my father's side of the family in
South Dakota during the summers after they've
witness the removal of the ceremonials, removal
of people from the land, removal of the
languages in the school system...its
extermination of culture. Today, for many, the
only way to learn Lakota is via a few
universities in the Dakotas or for those like me
with close family members still living in the
Dakotas and protecting the language/culture.
Therefore, I learned at a very young age that it
was a
responsibility
to keep the language and culture alive even
though the beginnings of my family is web with
the French. Yet, I'm no activist but I do care
very much about my heritage, culture &
language.
In fact, I
became very aware at a young age of a growing
issue for many people living abroad from their
native language...an issue called Language
Attrition @
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_attrition
With that said, I speak
French,
English
and Lakota
although I'm not really sure which would be
consider the native language for me due to my
unusual upbringing. In addition, I speak all
three languages equally to my children here in Québec City...they are fluent in all
three languages and capable of any conversation
with their Lakota speaking family relatives and
English speaking family relatives while French
is their native language.
This
is what attracted the nurse to me when I was in
the hospital...she would listen to my children
speak to me in three different languages
depending upon which relative was there visiting
me in the hospital that spoke a different
language (e.g. English, French or Lakota).
You can understand a little about
my heritage and voices handed down from
generation to generation. The below videos or
documentaries from among many is what I use to
educated my own children about their heritage
although in reality they must live as I
did...its a responsibility & family
obligation that I too must pass the stories to
my children regardless to the fact they are born
in a different country as myself:
Sacred Hills: Preserving
Lakota Sioux Culture in South Dakota
@
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG_2yT3FaEs
Lakota History: American
Disgrace @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIkETozZqTk
American Indian Activist
Russell Means Powerful Speech, 1989 @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVYShOZkZGs
Dakota Pipeline Protests @
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dakota-pipeline-protests
Native American
Lakota Music @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d02DbJyRFrQ
Rising Voices / Hóthaŋiŋpi -
Revitalizing the Lakota Language @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-jackHWCw
White Buffalo Prophecy
@
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8QrNBPqo3g
COKATAUPO! | 07 Stomp Dance |
08 Women's Fancy | 09 Buffalo Dance | 10
Buffalo Narration @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoD7blk6_Y
Nine Tribes | Three Divisions
| Great Sioux Nation @
https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/before-you-go/about-south-dakota/sd-tribes-plains-indians/tribes
Battle of Quebec @
http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-quebec-1759
My father's mother was
born in the Dakotas and she's 4/4 degree
Lakota.
She was given a very catholic first name while
her middle name was very native...same with my
father until the generation prior to the early 1900's
when the names were completely Lakota. In
contrast, my other grandmother (mom side of the
family) from southeastern France is 1/16 degree
Lakota Sioux with family lineage to the Dakotas
of a different tribal band (klan)...Lakota names
as their middle names...passed down from
generation to generation.
She (my mother's mom) attended college in South
Dakota wanting to learn more about the Lakota
part of her heritage...later marrying a Lakota
of 4/4 degree blood. She returned to France with
her husband soon after graduation from college
to manage the family photography business. She
would tell me as a child...she went to college
in the U.S. because of the winter winds that
were calling (praying) for her were of great
spirits and she wanted to explore it more after
the many stories passed down on her side of the
family from generation to generation.
In contrast, grandfather on my father side of
the family left my grandmother when I was a
child...he went back to the Northeast U.S. and
essentially disappeared although there are
stories of him residing in the New York area / Québec area working odd
jobs. Thus, there's a possibility I have
relatives with the last name of Perry in the New
York area or
St. Lawrence area outside of my own family here
in Québec.
Similar
winter winds of my ancestors I heard & felt
and guided by chants from my grandmother when I
was in the coma...in a body trying to survive a
battle with the pneumonia while in the hospital.
As you may be thinking now, I'm a very spiritual
person
as where all my ancestors and very at ease with
the winter months. Later, after nearly
dying...it made me realize the odd part beyond
about my own travelling and eventually making Québec a home after my
ancestors did the same many generations ago...
The traveling is very helpful
in my trading
because it taught me how not to be dependent upon
someone else along / equally via the discipline
I learned from sports & military. Also, I
learned how to judge someone based upon the
honesty of that person...that honesty carries
more weight with me than what type of car they
drive, what type of neighborhood they live in or the number of
followers they have on social media.
Some of the memories I have of
both my grandmothers was about their
similarities...their long jet black hair down to
their hip that was primarily braided...rarely
did I see them with their hair not braided. Two
women born in different countries with similar
like rhythm in their songs when they sang. Both
strongly believed in the spirits of the land
& water and natural remedies. The distance
they had between them in land and ocean did not
silence the spirits in their soul. Also, I
remember all the horrible tasting natural
medicine I had the take as a youth whenever I
was sick...some of which I myself make (grow)
today such as purple coneflower and give to my
own children when they are sick...its medicinal
use passed down from generation to generation in
my family. Great for headaches, toothaches and
improving the immune system when burnt although
I prefer to use it in tea.
Reality,
I understand more about my native culture &
history than I do about my English/French
culture & history. Yeah...its a long story
about how some of my ancestors from the Dakotas,
travel to the Ohio Valley (some settle there and
merged with other Native groups) forming an
alliance with the French called the
Franco-Indian Alliance. This alliance was
between the American Indians (Abenaki, Ottawa,
Menominee, Winnebago, Mississauga, Illinois,
Sioux,
Huron-Petun, Potawatomi) and the French
settlers.
The alliance
formed a haven in the Ohio Valley that included
fur trading while others became explorers and
scouts for war into the St. Lawrence River
Valley from New York to Canada (some settle
there). Later, some of my ancestors moved
into Québec
to fight in the French Canadian war (La
guerre de la Conquête) on the side of the
French although poorly documented about the Sioux
due to the involvement of other Native Indian
groups.
Québec is the location of the lineage merge
with the French in which resulted in some going
to France...causing a split in the lineage from
my relatives in the United States. Later briefly
merging with the British, early 1900's just
before World War I but remained in France.
I'm
in constant search of the history involving the
travels of my ancestors and their interaction
& merger with other native groups in those
travels especially during the Wars...all the
stories passed down in my family from generation
to generation especially when they traveled
through the Ohio Valley into the New York area
of the Adirondacks & Lake Champlain...then
upwards into the Quebec area.
I'm the first of all in my
lineage to be born in France and then travel
back to reside in the U.S. to then reconnect
with my grandmother's family in the Dakotas...a
strong connection today since I learned to walk
as a child (taking my first steps on Dakota land
prior to my first steps in France). Learning
this history and visually seeing it in
historical family art / letters / photos has
brought life to the words (stories) passed to me
from my grandmother along with some sadness due
to the oppression of the Lakota and other Native
Americans that exist today especially in the
crosshairs of the powerful oil companies in the
Dakotas in reference to the Dakota Access
Pipeline. Oddly after education and military
service in the United States, I settle in Québec, Canada and raising a French
family...strangely in the city of the initial
family lineage split during the war
(La
guerre de la Conquête) between the French and
British...Québec
City.
In my research,
my children and I may be the only in Québec City
of Sioux/French heritage. Like my grandparents, I
will ensure my children spend many summers in the
Dakotas and attending family reunions...learning
about their ancestors...learning of the stories
& history.
I
now understand many of my grandmother's sayings
to me especially about completing the family
circle after living &
walking the same lands as my ancestors. She was
distinctly aware of a small group of Sioux
participation in the war
(La
guerre de la Conquête) due to relatives in France
with the exact same history (stories) and then the
reconnection via marriage of my Father (United
States - Lakota) & Mother (France). This is
now my home here in Québec City...a place that
calls out to me beyond my connections to Southeast
France, South Dakota and Chicago especially in the
winter when the voices in the winds are the
strongest and constantly calling to me.
With that said
about the background of my mother &
father...my mother remarried. My step-father was a
floor trader at the exchange in Chicago prior
to moving on to the Federal Reserve. Many
relatives on his side of the family are involved
as professionals with the financial markets around
the world. Simply, my interest in the financial
markets is via my step-father's side of the
family. In comparison, there are close friends of
my family here in the province of Quebec that are
institutional traders.
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Family reunions usually organized
in South Dakota (ancestral roots), Oklahoma,
Arizona, Illinois, Ohio or Southeast France.
Hopefully when my children become adults...there
will be family reunions in Québec City now that my children
are learning more about their heritage.
I love extreme winter
hiking/camping and love jogging along shallow
river banks. Winter is my favorite time of the
year and I'm most comfortable in the
winter...becoming strongly aware of such when I
was in the military. I've studied martial arts
(Judo) for many years. I'm crazy about elk meat,
antelope meat, fish and sushi. In fact, I
learned how to make sushi when I lived in Japan
and South Korea. Yeah, I've traveled a
lot...just as my ancestors did. Also, I enjoy
darkroom photography involving the old archival
process (I do my own chemistry), landscape
winter photography and architectural
photography. - wrbtrader
- M.A. Perry -
TheStrategyLab
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Trading
is my primary source of income and my
secondary source of income is my darkroom
photography business in which I have 6 - 10
employees depending upon the time of the year.
I inherited the photography business upon
leaving the military. There has been years
that I have used my profits from my trading to
support my darkroom photography business...its
a business that has been in the family for a
long time. In contrast, this trading website
TheStrategyLab.com generates very little
profit in supporting itself.
Currently,
due to health reasons, I have a full time
manager for my photography business because
I'm unable to do both (trading and
photography business owner) at the same time
as performed in the past while residing in
another country...mainly because I'm still
dealing with residual
side effects
from my serious illness September - December
2016. Most likely I will sell my photography
business to another family member in France
while helping only as a consultant for the
business and then put all my efforts into
making my life easier while trading to lesson
the stresses in my life while I trade.
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I use the
online name wrbtrader at my trader
discussion forum and the same user name at
other trader forums (e.g. ForexFactory.com,
Traderslaboratory.com, EliteTrader.com and
Trade2Win.com). My former user name was
NihabaAshi
(Japanese Candlestick term with Martial Arts
term) prior to getting
permission from the forum owners to change my
user name to wrbtrader due to a few
racists that attacked what they thought
in error that I was Muslim, Haitian or
Japanese because of the user name NihabaAshi.
I won't repeat nor review their racist
messages. I have had no other user name nor do
I ask anyone to speak for me in any debates.
Regardless,
they are wrong, ignorant and liars about my
race and culture...latter via the fact they
have posted such information at blogs or
forums along with other incorrect information.
Seriously, my heritage is nobody's concern nor
should it matter. Those that intentionally use
it falsely in their attacks on me...says more
about them and their research abilities
considering the above information about my
heritage has been posted at my forums since
2002
although recently I've converted some of the
info into a webpage as this page.
In reality, the
user name was a Japanese Candlestick term
(Nihaba) in combo with a martial arts term
(Ashi)...together it meant footprints.
The
opinions and experiences I discuss at the above
forums as wrbtrader
that you'll see
upon review are straight to the point,
consistent and informative. At the above
forums, I do no recruiting, no advertising, no
marketing, no multiple aliases and no hidden
agendas...I just like talking about trading
just like any other trader and hopefully without
being trolled by others that don't like my
opinions. Also, I hold people accountable if
they decide to troll me. Simply, I will never
share any information with a troll beyond any
information that's already posted here at my
website. If you're offended...please move on
to another website, blog, forum or chat room
because I do not want to waste any of my time
& energy trying to get you to understand
any opinion I have expressed or any
facts.
I'm
a retail discretionary
trader
that uses a rule base trade method with equal
weight areas in my trading that's critical for
my consistency:
Trader Psychology
Behavior Finance
Trade Experience
WRB Analysis and Volatility Trading
Strategies
Risk Management & Position Size
Management
In other words, my trading performance are
strongly influenced by a teamwork of the above
mentioned trader psychology, behavior finance,
trade experience, risk management, position size
management with WRB Analysis and
not
via technical analysis (WRB Analysis &
Volatility Trading Strategies) all by itself. I
freely
discuss the topics involving aspects of part art
& part psychology in the chat room or forum
(private message/thread only) if questions are asked
about these topics although you can find an
abundance of free information via any search
engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask et
cetera).
Yet, if you
don't believe in trader psychology, don't
believe in behavior finance, don't believe in
trade experience and don't believe in risk
management...that's ok. Please don't ask any
questions about those particular topics and
I'll never mention it to you.
Reminder, these topics are not discussed in the
free or fee-base services unless
questions are asked and the trader has a sincere
interest in learning more about them
including doing their own research
prior
to asking me questions about these topics.
I
do not
use a mechanical trading system and I'm not a programmer/coder nor
do I use such in my trading. I do not offer a signal calling
service...never have. In addition, I do not mentor...never have
although I may do such when my kids are
older...in college. The name of my trade method
is called WRB Analysis and you can download
the free study guide @
http://www.thestrategylab.com/tsl/forum/viewforum.php?f=61
WRB
Analysis is not a trade signal
strategy and its not a trading
platform...its a price action analysis. In
contrast, it works with your own trade signal
strategies. The TSL Support
forum
for WRB Analysis is free and setup for you to
ask questions as you merge the key concepts from
WRB Analysis with your trade signal strategies.
Its your responsibility to backtest your trade
signals after you've merged them with key
concepts from WRB Analysis and then its your
responsibility to simulate trade your trade
strategies for your due diligence prior
to real money trading. Most traders say WRB
Analysis is easy to learn and easy to merge its
key concepts into their own trade signal
strategies while a small percentage have
difficulties in understanding WRB Analysis.
You
can find me at the forum via the user name wrbtrader.
Trading is
part science,
part psychology and part
art
for us discretionary traders. Simply, there's
some aspects of trading that can not be taught
(psychology and art) and if you're more
interested in your trading being 100%
science...you're going to need to learn about
automation trading, algorithms and such. The
latter (automation trading and algorithms)...I
do not teach nor use in my own trading. Yet, I
do use a rule base trade method while using discretion
via market context for the trading day
as you'll see in the free resources for your
due diligence.
Yet, I do enjoy talking about
algorithms because they impact the markets
every trading day...they are a concern to me
although my views about algorithms are that of
a retail trader and
not
as an expert nor professional on the topic.
The
concepts in the free study guide are well
defined and many traders have programmed the
definitions for a WRB interval, WRB Hidden GAP
interval, contracting volatility intervals,
swing point, trend continuation, reaction
highs/lows and many other key concepts with
their own trade signal strategies. Yet, the
subjectivity involves how you use it and many
traders obviously aren't going to use it the
same way because of the nature of their own
trade signal strategies. For example, a trader
that has trade signals involving price moving
averages merged with key concepts from WRB
Analysis will obviously have different results
in comparison with traders using trade signal
strategies from mean reversion merged with WRB
Analysis.
Simply, you need to have your own
trade signal strategies to use with WRB Analysis
and don't expect your trade results to be the
same as another trader or my own trading just
because you're using WRB Analysis
(read the info at the below daily trading
routine to understand).
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I don't give weekend seminars, no
after the close webinars, no podcasts nor do I
pretend you can learn how to trade from
hindsight charts. Therefore,
to find out more about how I approach trading
on a daily basis...just click on daily
trading routine. You'll quickly learn
that my trading plan as a whole is much
more important to me than the individual
components by themselves and that's my best
edge...teamwork via each component. Therefore, do not ask me for codes
to my trade method so that you can test the merits
of my trade method while ignoring the fact it's my
trading plan that includes many variables
besides just trade signals that's behind my
consistent profits and not my trade method all by
itself.
Therefore, if
you need to test something about my trade
method...please download the WRB
Analysis free study guide and then merge it
with your trade method. Next, backtest your trade
method with WRB Analysis and compare the
results of your trade method without WRB
Analysis. Also, you should use our free chat room
to post your trade results (in real time as other
members) and if you want to see your trading
results via quantitative statistical analysis...we
highly recommend you use any of the professional
trade journal software like the following:
Tradebench.com
Edgewonk.com
Tradervue.com
Trademetria.com
Tradingdiarypro.com
Stocktickr.com
Journalsqrd.com
Tradingdiary.pro
Mxprofit.com
Yet,
if you're not interested in doing
the work to determine the merits of WRB Analysis
via your own trading with WRB Analysis...you can
still compute your own quantitative statistics
of me (wrbtrader) via the in-depth trade details
provided in the chat room logs via whatever
criteria that you like even though I'm a
discretionary trader. In fact, you should do the
same for any other trader that post their trades
in ##TheStrategyLab free chat room. The archived
chat logs are stored @
http://www.thestrategylab.com/ftchat/forum/
- wrbtrader - M.A. Perry
- TheStrategyLab
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All of my trades are posted
in
real-time along with real-time
trades by other users of WRB Analysis in a
free trade posting room
(chat room on IRC) called
##TheStrategyLab.
I use IRC because its one of the few services
that clients can connect to very easily
especially for those behind a firewall such as
using a laptop at their work or another
location. IRC also allows connections from
dozens of different software programs including
mobile apps that allows me to better manage
(moderate) the chat room. The
trolls
hate IRC because it limits (reduces) their
ability to harass members of the chat room.
Do not
join ##TheStrategyLab free chat room to try to
mimic the trades of others including my own
trades because ##TheStrategyLab is
not
a signal calling chat room nor is it properly
setup for such. Unfortunately, many traders
attempt to use the chat room as a signal
calling service while knowing we do not offer
such a service. They eventually become very
disappointed and we then ban them for
violating or
terms of use policy that they agree to
not try to use the chat room as a signal call
service...an agreement they made to gain
access to the chat room. Also,
##TheStrategyLab chat room is not setup to educate
members although many members provide trade
tips via the concepts from whatever methods
they're using. If you want education...you
will need to use the forum and not the chat
room.
You
may be now wondering if the chat room is
not
a signal calling service and there's no
education...what's the purpose of the chat room ?
As
stated in the registration process for the chat
room, ##TheStrategyLab is setup to strictly be a
real-time trade journal of market commentaries
and trades so that members can combine it with
their broker statements (real money or
simulator) for excellent feedback into their own
trade habits, beliefs, opinions, analysis as
they are learning WRB Analysis while merging it
with their own trade signal
strategies...information that can not be found in broker
statements alone.
In addition,
I am a
trader first
and vendor last via owner of TheStrategyLab.com
while differentiating myself from other vendors
because I do post trades in real-time (since November 2002) via an
auto-script in
my own free chat room along with
posting my broker
profit/loss statements
(since September 26th 2006) and personally
trading in front of members in their home
whenever I travel on vacations to other
countries.
As for
TheStrategyLab.com website...I get about one
client per month
and that pays for the maintenance of the site,
resources and time & energy involved with
clients during the trading day. Simply, if I
wanted to make good money from my
website...the opportunities are there but my
trading and photography business provides a
comfortable living for me and my family.
I offer free
access
to the first three
chapters
of my WRB Analysis Tutorial Chapters 1 - 12
and free
access
to one
of my trade signal strategies....more
information @ TSL
Support Forum.
Further,
several times per year I allow traders to
watch me trade in person (appointment only)
at my home based office as a retail trader as
long as they bring their laptop so that I can
watch them trade in person too. Traders I
allow in my home are individuals I've
developed an online friendship and then have
met in person a few times prior to allowing them
into my home to eat meals with my family after
the joint trading sessions. Unfortunately,
I've had a few problems with some individuals
that visited me. They wanted mentoring during
these visits and a few became very
angry...almost threatening while I was trying
to get them to understand I do not mentor.
Yet,
because of the reactions from those I thought I
knew...I'm now (as of August
2017)
looking for an office away from home that I can
trade from and be more business orientated with
clients instead of dealing with the crap in my
home residence...same
location my kids reside.
In one particular
incident...a trader enter my property and
went to my backyard to have a intimidating
conversation with my kids that were playing
on the trampoline while I was inside working
on my computer (trading). I called the
police and when they arrived...I discovered
the guy used a bogus name in a prior meeting with me.
Simply, I now go to great lengths to protect
my family and privacy.
Also,
I do not
spam other traders and the
owners/moderators of every forum I'm a member
will verify such if you take the time to ask
them. However, if someone solicits me for
information about TheStrategyLab.com or any of
it's resources via a sincere interest...I will
respond to their request via private message
or email only after I've reviewed their
message post history to determine if they have
a sincere interest or just a cloaked basher.
In addition, if you bash me and/or post false
statements about me, I'll put you on ignore
and my no
response
to your private messages, emails or public
messages will confirm you've been put on
ignore. Simply, there's no need for me to
defend TheStrategyLab.com because most people
are smart enough to do their own due
diligence
instead of listening to some jerk hiding
behind an anonymous user name under the facade
that they are just informing newbie traders.
Most bashers of
TheStrategyLab.com website, WRB Analysis,
wrbtrader or me are either cloaked vendors
(e.g. robotic bitcoin signal services,
robotic cryptocurrency signal services,
robotic binary options signal services) or
partner/affiliated with those types of
services that pop up overnight and usually
shut down within a few years before they
start a new website doing the same thing.
These are not traders...they are
spammers/scammers that I've refused to do
business with or they lie that they've "contacted
me" when in fact they've never contacted
me. These
are the worst types of trolls.
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With that said, if you have a
sincere interest in TheStrategyLab.com, my primary
trade methodology involves
key concepts using
WRB
Analysis Tutorials
(discretionary
rule-base market analysis) to confirm my
objective rule-base trade
signal strategies. WRB Analysis improves
the performance of my trade signals...it also
improves the performance of many other trade
methods used by traders from entry to exit
such as Japanese Candlesticks, Volume Spread
Analysis, trend strategies, range strategies,
volatility strategies, momentum strategies,
gap strategies, breakout strategies,
divergence strategies, technical indicator
strategies and strategies based upon
traditional chart patterns. However, I don't
trade all those trade signal strategies...they
are what my clients are using while using WRB
Analysis to improve the performance of their
own strategies. Simply, WRB
Analysis Tutorials and my trade
signal strategies are two completely
different services offered by
TheStrategyLab.com while both are dependent
upon WRB Analysis.
It's also important to remember
that I don't believe technical analysis is
profitable all by itself nor do I use it as
such. Instead, as a veteran trader, my most
important edges involve my trading plan (+20
years market experience, position size
management, discipline, proper capitalization,
proper trading environment, proper trader
workstation, stress management, understanding
global economics, wrb analysis, trade signals et
cetera) via how I'm able to put all these pieces
of the puzzle together into consistent
profitable trading.
However, if you're curious about
my trade signal strategies...they involve the
following as a price action only (no
indicators):
Primary
Methodology
Market
/ Trade Experience (intuitive)
Trader
Psychology / Market Psychology (discretionary)
Volatility Analysis (objective and rule
base)
Position Size Management
(discretionary)
Intermarket Analysis
(objective and rule base)
WRB Support/Resistance Zone
Analysis (discretionary in the basic info
and objective rule-base in the advance info)
Secondary
Methodology
Support and Resistance
Analysis (discretionary)
Japanese Candlestick Analysis
(objective and rule base)
Thank you for
reviewing
my online profile of wrbtrader and if you have
any questions...please contact me at the below
contact information and not at other
discussion forums to prevent violating their
terms of use.
Analysis of wide range
body or bar (WRB) is the most efficient way to
exploit changes in supply/demand or changes in
volatility for profits.
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