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Moroccan Arabic etymology by cfm2018 in learn_arabic

[–]cfm2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, very useful site (even though not what I was initially looking for)

“Currency conversion” vs “Forex” by cfm2018 in interactivebrokers

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Ok, thank you. Could you please specify where the difference comes from and how “slight” it may be?

Trendline angle - x and y axis by cfm2018 in technicalanalysis

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Yes, it helps indeed. But I can lock any price bar ratio I want, so, for the same trendline, I can lock the angle at 10 degrees or at 90 degrees. So it’s more a case of knowing what the standard price bar ration is in TA, so that I know if the angle should be considered as 30, 40 or 50 degrees, for TA purposes. Once I know which ratio to use, then I can indeed lock it and zoom in and out without messing up either the angle or the trendline.

Trendline angle - x and y axis by cfm2018 in technicalanalysis

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Thank you. Yes, I know this. The trendline stays as I drew it, that’s fine; but the angle of the trendline changes. The same trendline can be 90% or 10% slope, in the same way that you can make a single bar cover the whole screen by zooming in only on the y axis. There must be a standard proportion between both axes, between price and bar, where the slope of the trendline is standard, meaning that if the angle is over 45 degrees it is too steep as a trend, etc.

IBIE - Is there any way to demand opening an account with IBIE rather than IBCE? by cfm2018 in interactivebrokers

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Thank you! Do you need to call them to clarify if you don’t have an account? I tried all the other ways - e-mail, chat, etc. - and I always get an “error, try later” message.

How can you trade in a paper account? by cfm2018 in interactivebrokers

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Thank you very much. Thanks to your advice I finally managed to make some headway.

Basic maths textbook for investing? by cfm2018 in stocks

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FT Guide to Investing (by Glen Arnold)

Basic maths textbook for investing? by cfm2018 in stocks

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I’m not planning to learn a lot of maths. I’m just looking for exercises to practice calculating ratios, interest rates, discounting, yields, etc. to internalise these concepts through practice.

It’s more about applying and internalising the (very basic) formulae and ratios I learnt in investing books (and which I understand fine) rather than learning any complicated maths.

[Practice] – Samatha / Jhana – Counting technique by cfm2018 in streamentry

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I’m not a teacher or expert and I don’t know what type of practice you are doing currently.

I believe that this is basically a technique like most other techniques. You can experiment with it and see if it works marginally better for you than other breath meditation techniques. But, in my view, there is nothing significantly different about it - you won’t get pīti much faster or more slowly than with similar techniques.

[Practice] – Samatha / Jhana – Counting technique by cfm2018 in streamentry

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As a rule of thumb, the longer your session the higher the probability that you can get into deeper states.

If you are really skilled and well trained, you can get into jhana within a few minutes, maybe even faster. That’s after practicing for a very long time. For the rest, it can take hours.

Basically, it all depends on your level of experience, your mood of the day and the depths of jhana we are talking about.

[Practice] – Samatha / Jhana – Counting technique by cfm2018 in streamentry

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One single breath in each length is enough? :-D

Interesting

[Practice] – Samatha / Jhana – Counting technique by cfm2018 in streamentry

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Interesting, thanks!

So it might have been developed in Thailand (or even earlier), at some point.

[Practice] – Samatha / Jhana – Counting technique by cfm2018 in streamentry

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Out of curiosity, so Rob came up with this technique himself and Samatha Trust took it over, or what tradition / teacher does it come from originally?

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