Recent content by ehsuhuang

Mr. Consistent - funny you mentioned forex. I traded that about 5-6 years ago when all the internet broker/bucketshops just came out. It was good for all the reasons you mentioned, but it since there are only 5-6 major currencies, the patterns that I was looking for didn't occur frequently...

Can you guys verify if my thinking is along the correct lines on vertical spreads? My general strategy: is to swing trade equities, and hold them for about 3 to 6 weeks as an average timeframe. I am usually correct about 75% of the time, within the 3-6 week timeframe. A typical trade might...

Thanks volatilitypimp! This really helps, eugene

Is there a piece of software that will graph the implied volatiity that was "implied" in the past? In other words, I don't want historical volatility, (based on the underlying's prices that was realized) but I want a history of the implied volatility. The reason I want this is that I...

The successful traders that I know of trade this way. In my own trading, about 80-90% of my trades hit my profit objective; the other 10-20% are losers because they hit my stop. In every trade, my stop is about equal to 150% of my profit objective. For example, if my goal profit is $2, then...

To answer the original question, I agree with TSaimoto - I would simply exit the position. I would pay the commission and slippage and just get out. That is not a good trading strategy in my book. You have just given up half of your avaiable "edge" when you randomly entered the market...

Posted by Gordon Gecko: just for the sake of example, say all trades from the price of 50 have a 50% chance of going to either 48 or 52, and a 100% chance that one or the other will happen. would my above idea make money? i think it would..right...

I attended this seminar in March a few months ago. I had just gotten interested in trading/investing in general and thought that this seminar would be good. It is, if you know absolutely NOTHING about trading. Their first day is devoted to using their "fundamental" analysis. Which is...

As a possibly way to prevent getting very large losers (when the there is a very strong trend), you might just exit, or stay out whenever the ADX rises above a certain threshold. Like I said before, I can't really test this system, but on a quick eyeball of some daily charts, it does show...

Hi everyone, This is my first post, so go easy. (about myself: I'm fairly new to trading, been trading the Forex for the last 6 months, and I've been reading these boards for the last couple of weeks, and thanks everyone for the great advice so far!) I got this idea while reading an...