I agree with Redneck Trader 100%. Your trading method must produce certain results but money management keep you in the game when even placing...
4XQs, amen to everything you have said. It puzzles me that a lot of people gripe about the evil "liberal media" No one complains about the...
I kinda of have to agree with dve250. What would be in it for a really good trader to take you under his/her wing right away. I wish it were a...
Hi all. I use amibroker for my charting. You should be able to use the current contract and within your testing/charting software be able to set...
I agree 50-55 & 200-205 EMAs are very powerful. I think most of the institutional mechanical systems must use those time frames. I find there is...
I think the boredom factor gets way too underplayed. I have gone back and forth about trading full time. I like my job in the IT industry and the...
yeah the republicans will go from deficit dodo birds to deficit hawks on Obama's watch. I will say repubs do the loyal opposition thing way better...
What am I missing. We try to capture a portion of the day's swing. Unless you are not a day trader, what was wrong with this statement. I trade on...
I laughed through this whole post. I must be part of the 10% of traders that are democrats. I wish I could word search this thread for total times...
I don't think type stops work for a lot of reasons. I trade the ym, dax, and ftse with 10 to 12 point stops and no trailing stops. I found...
I know for a fact that Global has some of the best commission rates going. Not sure where this 9 dollars is coming from. I have traded the mini...
Im going to say this again. There are many discount futures firms that will alow you to trade 10+ contracts with 5k. That is not the point....
5000 is very reasonable in my humble opinion. Why on earth would you need 50k to trade 1 emini SP contract? If you feel like you know what you are...
I think the easiest thing to do is copy all your important files to an external disk and just clean install windows XP. Sorry but this is going to...
Hi spanish89. Do you have a family? I wish I was as brave as you. I don't have a family btw. I assume you trade mini crude. I noticed over the...
Hi Spanish89. I too am fairly new to trading. I got wiped out but struck out on my own and learned to keep my loses small and ride my winners. I...
I used to skip the 1st hour on the DAX and started when the FTSE came online. I have found lots of big moves within that 1st hour in the last say...
I trade from 2am est to about 7:30am est. It is quite insane but I have adjusted my sleep pattern as I work a full time job for the time being. I...
It is pretty darn near impossible to trade the mini dow or nq with a stop imho last time time I traded the mini dow 2 weeks ago I had a position...
I will admit the methodology just did not click for me. I guess in life one must find their own path. I will accept your criticisms as valid. I am...
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