Recent content by skim

It's all to do with ego. Or, more importantly, lack of it. And that's where we girls are, by nature, more readily able to 'submit' to the market, and thereby follow the market, rather than want the market to submit to the postion we have entered. And being able to knit and trade helps ...

That's a VERY clever saying ... and so true! You may have waited 2½ years to make your first post; it was well worth the wait. Thank you for sharing.

Sssshhhhhhhhh! Don't let cats out of bags! And remember; we need cannon fodder. Lots of newbies, lots of dosh, lots of naivety. :D

I'm a Strategic Trader. Hmmm ... there appear not to be too many of us.

Are you sure you are looking at the correct contract month? Check that BOTH your charts and your trading platform are on the same month. IB changed today to 'M' whereas the majority of volume is still trading 'H'. I have no problems with lagging data here.

This is indeed a magical time to be trading ES. It's just like the period before the Iraq war, if any of you can remember back that far. Volatility is wonderful if you know when and where to use it. If you don't know, best wear brown trousers. Long may the current market conditions...

Yes

I don't believe anyone 'hates' successful traders. I do believe, however, that there is a huge amount of 'frustration' which over-rides everything else. It may appear as envy, but it is in fact frustration. Frustration can be overcome. Those that do, succeed. Those that don't, blow it...

Note how not one single poster on this thread asks the [to me] obvious question. I know the answer, you know the answer. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Well done, Sir! Market is 1341.00 with two minutes to close. You are a rarity - someone who knows what's what. I take my hat off to you.

Me too. Occasionally I'll go to a 1 point stop loss, but not often.

Very true. Although perhaps it would be more accurate to say: "The market is 'pushed' to where it can f*ck the most people."

AA - if you look at the list of servers, you will note that they do not alter their position in the list, as they used to. In other words they're fixed. And also, you'll notice that the server 'remembers' which server you were on the previous day, and allocates you a slot on that one. Well...

I use Qcharts across multiple monitors; just extend the workspace across as many monitors as you want to. And then within each workspace have as many chart windows as you want to. The Qcharts data feed has improved enormously over the last few weeks, and during the wonderful spikes of FOMC...