Recent content by old coot

You know, if you have 2 accounts, you can take both sides of a trade at the same time, so one of your accounts will always show a profit. Especially if there's some big news, like earnings, FOMC announcement, etc. You'll lose your commissions, of course, but if you can show your results ang get...

Rollover....problem in both futures contracts and small mattresses.

Your first entry was good for 4.75 points 3 minutes later. Why did you not get out while you were green?

I see your list of entries and exits over the past 2 days. I have to ask what is your criteria for entering each trade?

@sstheo , I respect your decision to back away for a bit, and hope you'll be back, but regardless, I want you to know how much I have enjoyed the trading room over the last 7 weeks since I joined. And, I have learned a lot from you, and another couple of members. I am trying hard to apply what...

Yeah, that's the way to run a business, tell half of your prospective customers "Fuck you" No wonder you're such a raging success.

I'v been watching him trade for 3 or 4 weeks now. He'll be fine.

Market as a mirror...You may be onto something there. When my wife was alive and healthy, I'd trade some, we'd do things together, all was good. I didn't sit in front of a computer 16 hours a day. She'd sit down to watch TV, I'd go into my library and pour over charts. A whole lot of happiness...

This seems typical of something a certain group of fanboi's would say. It makes absolutely no sense, but you can tell the writer is angry.

11 pounds. Man... My first public job, one time when I got paid I took my entire week's pay in (real)silver dollars, was around $50, I think. I remember thinking "This don't feel like 50 bucks." It was 3 pounds of silver.

I'm positive he's in Europe, 5 time zones away, and as such, probably a little confusion is OK, it's not like I'd know what time it is in England right now, or anything.

OEC data feed is through Gain Capital. They are well aware they have a severe problem, I'm not sure why they don't fix it. Everybody I keep up with is pretty happy with AMP. Some of them use Rythmic, most use CQG. The picture I posted, the AMP product is the chart on the left, dragged over to...

Yes, if one is running slow. Your data may be a few seconds to a few minutes delayed. The worst I've ever seem is OEC. Here's a screenshot from one afternoon when there was a lot of action, and OEC is lagging CQG badly... That's a 14 minute lag!!!!

In the circumstance, with the mindest you ascribe to yourself, I would make an entry, and sell half when I get the feeling this is where I want out, and let the other half ride, with either a trailing stop as Slugar recommended, or a stop that would leave me green on the entire trade. As an...

I use multicharts with AMP and CQG feed. The user manual is 934 page long PDF. There are many, many videos on Youtube. Yet, still, I don't find it particularly user intuitive. It may well be on account of my age and the type of charting, trade page, etc that I used many years ago. I will tell...