I thought this would be an interesting discussion. I have been day trading ES, NQ, and YM being flat at 4:00 PM EST leaving no open positions....
thankx... I did get me broker on the line.. got my answer... it is about $6000 per contract right now.. up from about $5000 due to the recent...
For the average broker,,, what are the required USD $$ amounts to hold over the day's close for ES, NQ, and YM please.
for anyone that cares.... daily High to low 10 yr / 48pts 5 yr/52pts 1 year/60pts since Jan 1,2018 10 days of over 100 Pt range and...
now there's some great advice... thankx
oh,.,,, OOPS sorry dude
UHH no ,, my post was not meant to brag in any way... if you read it... I lost a 80 point winning day and ended up with a large loss yesterday,...
OMG it's not that complicated.... I track my results for the day as Net Points won or lost... and then back out approx $4.2 round trip per...
Well said NeoTrader only one poster besides yourself has said anything positive... I have found this forum to be very negative in general. When...
Stop/market.... so it converts to a market order when touched... USUALLY it is the same price, but not always like yesterday.... honestly had I...
I hear you... I had a stop that blew straight thru my limit and executed at a much lower price to exit my long on NQ trade yesterday... UGLY!...
HMM let's do some scorekeeping... my haters all have 1000's of posts... maybe you guys spend more time on trading and learning and less on...
WOW.... I found the post police on this forum... thankyou for doing a great job. Now why don't you add something of value..
to the hatters... go tell Dr Phil ...I do not care what you think @SteveM.... thankx for the input... I totally agree, god knows how much I...
traded for just 30 minutes,,, I have a great profit for the day (up 73 points NQ trades) and I am done. I am putting this hear mostly for...
I gave up on IB after numerous issues.. including the lockout that lasted a few days recently and could not log in.... Sure they have low...
Thankyou everyone for your input. I need to have a stop for myself and my personality. Today is a good example... I traded from 6:30 AM - 9:30...
Thank you everyone for the great advice on exits. I’m doing much better on that this week. I think I need to have a daily goal and then call it...
oops. That’s. Hurt
My father was a stockbroker for 44 years. He had a sating . “People never got hurt taking a profit”
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