Recent content by jsmooth

any thoughts about the fixed income markets? Specifically what may develop tomorrow after the FED hike?....the past 5/7 years we have seen yields rise in q3-q4...i'm assuming this trend will continue since the FED will rase 2 more times and a recession wont happen before the next 12...

@mav...Haha...I'm still on the institutional sell side...i've been slowly trying to teach my PM's Fishers work... I came back here after finding Mark's CQG youtube webinar...when he talked about DRIFT in the ES...why not just keep trading ACD on the long side?

Fridays action, loving the late day C down through the pivot....but more importantly...5 day Sushi Roll!?!...anyone have a number line for the NQ? the NQ Index did close right around the june opening now....i'd be curious to see the NL of financials also..selling tech buying financials is the...

Everyday I'll trade (or use) the 50% fib of prior day close to current day open - 50% retrace....if i buy/sell against the open, that 50% fib will be my first level.

for CL and NG I've been using the 20 Min pit opening range the past year to give me good setups and mkt bias to work with for the day...I chat with a few guys on the NYMEX floor and they all watch the 20 min OR....I love setups when the market tries to break above (or below) this 20 min range...

I've lost 15-25k in a day multiple times (on accounts of 100-200k), trading CL and NG in 20-30 lots or trading weekly aapl options. being able to stomach and just take the loss, is the easy part, waking up the next morning and trying to find the motivation to get into the market again to make...

Mav, I've been trying to send you a PM, but i cant, always says your box is full...send me an email if you got a sec - dacquistoj@gmail.com

Cave, Interesting, I dont know enough about the fundamentals to trade spreads on a swing basis....Honestly, I just watch the first few calendar spreads to help give me bullish/bearish bias on the day, and if I think trading the outright carries too much risk I'll just trade the calendar in...

CDCaveman, how do you get better risk/reward on spread trades? I've been trading CL/NG (mainly front month outrights) the past year+ and the past few months also playing the calendar spreads...I never feel like I'm getting the same risk/reward trading the spread though. When I trade the...

Mav, you ever play any of the CL/NG spreads during roll? any strategies or things you look for (Vol/OI) to trade the roll days? Also, do you tend to watch the opening range levels for calendars also? I've been listening to the traders audio CL squawk the past few months, the guy said he use...

Great Post! If you are able to follow that logic, and cut your losers and let the winners run...that's the holy grail of trading

i ended up buying that book per your post....very interesting read, thanks!

I'm in the process of forming a single member LLC to buy an exchange seat and trade through the LLC to segregate my personal funds. My state does not require an operating agreement for single member llcs, yet I've still been advised to create one (people are telling me I should create one...

I've been running Xtrader/TT on a Windows 7 machines the past 3 years, does anyone have any experience or comments from running it on a Win 8 system? I'm looking to building a new computer and buy a new laptop and wondering if anyone has experience and reviews on running TT on win 8 machine. I...