Recent content by julian0625

One guy wants to buy 500 contracts. he goes around and asks if anyone wants to sell 500 contracts. he finds someone, they agree on the deal. seller throws out an offer at best ask (hidden or not) and buyer buys it. Case closed

For another $10/mo, you get 5 years of intraday in esignal. call em

My thoughts exactly...me being a teenager myself, its definitely odd how the OP writes, but hey whatever if he/shes real, kudos because he/shes doing well (disciplined). The only thing I do not understand is, DadsSon if your "Dad" does not want you picking up any other trading ideas, why are...

quicker fills as people tend to take liquidity on those routes as they pay you

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Hello, I recently wrote a strategy that is a counter trend strategy so it looses money when markets are trending hard. I would like my strategy to stop long / short trades from being re-entered if the prior long / short trade resulted in a loss, but I don't know how to program it into...

You won't make it with an attitude like that! You got to have a burning passion, and you have to absolutely KNOW you will succeed.

+1 I completely Agree. "If you prefer making trades based on global macro events, prefer technical analysis, and prefer deep vs wide focus then I recommend futures. If you prefer to make fundamental based plays, want to take a wide/stats view, do company specific research, or trade news...

do explain? am i wrong?

Those are INVESTMENTS not trades. You see them because they are required to publish all long term holdings.

Lmao youve got to be kidding me. The biggest traders, managers, hedgies use either the SPY or ES to enter their largest positions....

I dont think volume matters on the daily time frame as much as it used to... now i think wats more important is the range of the bars. Pull up an ATR of 1. That should give you a better tell on the power of moves, than volume.

I respectfully disagree. You can give anyone the greatest system in the world, if they are not psychological prepared to trade, they will fail. Psychology is #1 in trading. There are many trading strategies that work... its the trader's mindset that decides the outcome. Also, if your...

Hello, I am thinking of purchasing an iPad to trade and manage positions when I am away from the computer during the school year. Are there any good technical analysis programs available for the iPad? If not, are there other tablet devices that would offer some? Thanks in advance...