also, assuming that you did lose money on ES this day... that says roughly ZERO about your methodology assume you did 4 trades today. and...
2 things... while short term trading may SEEM zero sum game, it is not period. that's a mathematical/structural issue, and the stock market...
the time to be really bullish on gold was in 1999. i jumped the gun and bought in 1998 :) but seriously, everybody is pimping gold now that...
computer costs are deflating, fwiw, not inflating compare the cost of a 2 meg ram computer with a 17" monitor and a comparable processor now...
the ES is 90% correlated with the YM, yet has a significantly inferior spread. thus, the advantages in YM over ES for intraday traders is quite...
for pete's sake. you are a beginner so, i assume you are not trading 50 to 100 lots? then, liquidity is NOT the primary issue spread...
step outside your narrrow world and understand that it affects trading. especially index futures specifically, it affects index futures, which...
"The ES is "smoother" and more efficient than most stocks which is a bad thing." um, no what it means is that you have to have a methodology...
look, no offense, but... just based on the questions you are asking, you have no reason to be trading futures except in a desire to give other...
i don't limit myself i daytrade futures. i swingtrade stocks (mostly) and to a lesser extent futures and options (usually spread trades)...
"I cant remember who it was in Market Wizards that said he could publish his entire method on the front page of the NY Times and Wall Street...
"This is simply not true, because trading is not a zero sum game... this is true even for derivatives such as futures and options..." um,...
great day for trading. full gapfill and fade
"Just feel sorry for people who use TS exclusively." i agree otoh, anybody who (especially trading FUTURES) who just has ONE brokerage...
"I have been long 2 October contracts since 6.8!!!!!! I am getting killed here. All I wanted was to sell at 7.00 The end of last week I thought...
did u sign up for the nymex datafeed in TS? if u didn't, TS will show delayed data. IB doesn't charge extra for nymex. TS does iirc. so, if...
my understanding with UNG is that contango will negatively affect it the same way it affected USO and of course that, contrarily, backwardation...
i've been schnitzeling a little UNG since it's so UNLEVERAGED, and its in my IRA, i can afford to wait and keep adding to position on weakness...
it depends, it depends, it depends. it really does. i have found that the key to my success was AVOIDING THE BLOW UP (TM) which was...
there is PLENTY of volatility. you gotta be kidding me. for pete's sake, we just had a nice 40+ point move (both directions) off of the housing...
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