Recent content by cat3appr

ya b yep, does it sound reasonable?

I don't know about that, I'm trying to get the advantage of 12h timeframe that smooths and solve the daily stock gaps and gives a better picture of the price action

Hi all, I have some years of experience in investing in stocks; a couple of years ago I started to explore the more speculative swing and daytrade. Quite recently the tech support of 2 of my charts providers and brokers started to explain me to stay away from short timeframes 1/5 minutes and...

thanks guys for the contributions. Yes this guy is incredible, you may try for yourself and send him an email matthew@dastrader.com asking about HFT and 1/5 mins candles ... he'll get back to you with arrogance and a lecture on how you don't understand anything about trading, that you have to...

Thank you, the first reply that makes sense. I signed for DAS in order to SCALP, high frequency day trading, period. It was solely Matt's idea to push the 12h charts and tell to only swing trade. Indeed I want to focus on scalping.

In fact i'm talking about equities, not commodities. Plus, most of the stocks have an uptrend bias, I find rather difficult to find liquid ones with a clear S/R pattern on 12h charts.

but someone would argue that Fx doesn't have overnight gaps, and it's easier to find S/R stocks are uptrending and most of the time they are in uncharted territory, where no S/R can be applied

Hi all, Several weeks ago I started to use a simulator of http://dastrader.com for day trading. This is a direct access with the servers in the Nasdaq, with real time data which guarantees instant executions, ( and comes with a price, higher than other services ) so it is definitely for day...