"60% winning percentage is no big deal either. The more difficulty part is to have a high reward/risk ratio, which is exactly the purpose of this...
There is always a trend on some timescale. An experienced trader gets involved when the market intensity is on a timescale that they are...
I have been scalping ER2 and occasionally ES and switched to Crude and now to DAX. ER2 and ES are totally different animals when it comes to...
"Schindler Trading up 17% YTD" Good for him and his clients considering the recent turmoil in the markets. I love this thread, so typical of...
Supercoder2006, As they say, it's not the knowing that is hard in trading but the doing. Theoretically you could turn your account over to...
The introduction of NeoTicker by Ticquest definitely represents a quantum leap in development for any trader. Only the trader' imagination is...
Really? The idea that without the latest, most sophisticated and fastest facilities one can't win against the big boys is a defeatist one....
Some ET'ers have an account at TS also. In TS there are two studies for spread difference, one is price, the other one is ratio. I am...
I erred before in saying the DAX is slightly larger contract then CL. In fact it is over 3x larger. I am still trading Crude from mid-morning....
Of course, I have subscribed for the NYMEX data feed. This is some kind of error on the system that seems to occur on thinly traded contracts...
I am out at 5.494, - .011. @ 2:31am. By the way for those that use TS exclusively, TS does not repost bid/ask/last properly. Totally off....
I actually made .036 on that. Because it was not improving I have kicked it out in time. See thread above, I posted it real time. This is not...
Last Sunday buying a weak opening was good for a few points but later the market tanked. Call me crazy but I am long again, just one lot of...
I am using the 16 sec. charts and the 1 and 2 min. for perspective. GC
Comission on FDAX is 1.11/side (unbundled after 300) at IB which is half of the Crude commission. Makes a difference.
I started trading FDAX. It is a slightly bigger contract but charts and trades similarly. Action will pick up here. GC
Guten morgen, Sold at 7515.50 bought at 7512.00 4:33 AM here in NY GC
When the intensity of the market is increasing I prefer to go into detail down to the smallest timescale where the usual indicators still work....
I have made my first trade in DAX futures. A scalp on the short side. IB platform. Normally I scalp Crude or Yen early in the morning (NY...
Trading October. When the market does not behave as expected look out. I bought Nat Gas fifteen minutes after the dramatic gap down opening...
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