Recent content by Jennifer7

Thanks Jayford. I know the FOMC Rate Decision is Wednesday, but I was really talking about ES choppiness over the past 6 or 8 months.

Can anyone tell me why the markets are so choppy? I trade the ES, for example, and trades that I used to get 4-5 points on, I'm now lucky to get 6 ticks on. I also have to use wider stops. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with their comments/guesses on why this is happening and how long this...

I hope I've chosen the right forum for my question, but anyway here goes: I ‘ve been trading the ER emini for about a year on lower time frames–mainly 5-minute and 3-minute charts with some success. But because of time constraints I plan to start trading from the day chart which means...