Well first of all I don't follow your posts and just happened upon this forum because I was following what wayward has been posting on other forums. So I don't know your various issues with daytrading etc or what your various peccadillos might or might not be.
I would argue those are not minor fluctuations - I shorted MQG based on what I perceived to be a head and shoulders top which also happened to strike the top of what I saw as a trend channel. I anticipated the inital throw back to the neckline but had then moved my stop lower and got taken out with the seocnd throwback (around 87). I did make money on the trade -- just not as much as I could have. "Throwing on a short" was just a casual comment you shouldn't interpret literally (or whatever you did).
If you actually read the post I was asking questions about the chart not saying to short or go long. I don't profess to be an expert with TA (or even know a great deal) and was looking to learn. To that end I guess any trade I make based on my limited knowledge of TA is a form of guessing. I would love someone to give suggestions on how to avoid being whipsawed out of positions -- or even just point in a general direction on where to learn it. Rather than being sort of a douche.
But thanks for what amounted to about one and half pieces of useful information.
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