Recent content by TorontoTrader

So If I wanted to hold for 6 months I would buy the december contract? Though will I even get a fill?

So are you guys saying that it is no good to try and trade SSF for Long term? Whats the maximum amount of time i can hold one contract for?

Please someone must know the answer to this! =) I like to trade SSF , but would like to know if I can Holdon to the contract, for a long period of time, say 6 months or more. Would I be allow to, or does my contract expires after a few months?

Hypothetical question. If I buy 1 SSF contract on april. Howlong can I hold it for? Guess what I am really asking is; does my contract ever get expired, and then I am force to close my postion? Thanks

I am thinking of trading the London stock exchange, and need info on the basics. 1)Does London have a emini futures market like the nasdaq emini? If so what is the symbol for it? 2) Does it have Exchange traded funds like QQQ? If so what is the symbol? 3)Is there a site I can go...

IB has a solid trading platform, very basic but functional and does it job well. If you intend to trade alot and need quick automatic stop, then you can download an API program which allows for that. As a whole I am happy with IB. And would recommend it to you.

Why is it so wrong that alphie short it here, a pull back is eminient, we just dont know the exact day. But what concern me is that, Alphie, are you daytrader or swingtrader? Hard to make money if you cannot decide your profession.

Scalping is a losing technique. It would work if you can get fill all the time, but some of the time you will not be able to exit your position. With commsions and slippage you will find it impossible to make money that way.

For example, I noticed on the one minute ES chart on Friday at 14:11 EST the ES was trading up near 884.00, threatening to breakout of a consolidation pattern it had been in with a top at the 884.00 area. Theoretically then, a trade to 884.25 would break this thing out. However, I see a large...

Any emotion whether its pride, fear, greed is a handicap for traders. The unattached unemotional mind is really the key to success here. One must see trading as a game, a mere chessmatch and the outcome has no personal or hold on a person everyday life. If you lose a chessmatch you say...

I think people who make 20 points a day, just like to come in here , browse the boards and have a frew chuckles.

QiGong practitioner (full time)

If you got an ounce of logic you can deduce that the only thing this guy is selling is a bunch of baloney. 20 points day using his system. HAH. Do you know how difficult it is to get that. This guy is trying to catch wide eye new traders, and make some profit out of them since he...