Fader I am a simple thinking person so when I say 1% that is 1% of what my trading account balance is for the day that I make the trade. If...
Yes you could say there is a "give-back" quotient involved with my thread. The important part of this thread for me was to expand ideas, and also...
Today was a little chop before the goals were met - ES had 1.2% for the day and my EC trade did 1.1%. Both trades had some positions grabbed...
Jimmy - The only time I leave a small percentage of the position able to catch extension beyond the normal bracket boundaries is news releases....
Trading without charts has been freedom for me.
Yes that is one way to do this trade from a fundamental starting point - but that alone will not handle the chop periods by itself as you will...
Yes I may do that one day when I finish my ZB system and then turn it on - at that point I will not be worried about my bracket trades as much. I...
The trade risk to reward is not 1:1 it is actually more like 1:3. If something goes wrong in the trade and you flatten with technical platform...
No - I just happen to trade the EC in conjunction with the US markets open at 09:30 est. I will also trade the EC at the EU market open again...
I trade the CME EC product - today at the 09:30 est US market open my long account made the hit. You have to realize that my order stacks are not...
They are re-adding liquidity to the little guy. :D
Yes - now think about multiple products with multiple opens. There is a "reactive" nature to price at market opens that make this type of trade...
If you saw in person exactly what I do then you would understand my use of two accounts - the commissions, extra or not, are not a hindrance to...
I had user defined "order packages" that I had programmed for Trademaven, so I could just one click on the bid or ask to deploy my order stacks....
Last night and todays trades worked out well - I traded the ES and the EC last night together at the EU market open for two real quick hits of...
Hello, You may want to check this out - http://www.smartquant.com/quantdeveloper.php This is tied in with TT (XTrader) and is some...
Anyone here trading the CME NK futures contract? CME Nikkei 225 Futures Trade Unit $5 times the Nikkei Stock Average Point Descriptions 1...
All my trades are backtested and designed to return a percentage of the account per trade -- 1/4%, 1/2%, or as high as 1% per trade. When the...
I watched someone today get all messed up in an ES trade using TM today. Price passed through all his covers but the orders were still showing on...
stevegee58 Registered: Feb 2004 Posts: 224 06-12-06 09:31 AM I've been experimenting with similar techniques in forex. The nice...
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