Recent content by xcer125

I thought I'd post some of my longer term thoughts. My personal take on oil is that it will trade in line with equities depending on the economic outlook. However, headline risk is what could cause it to diverge: Future conflict in Iran (http://www.debka.com/article/8794/ ...

prob still have too much of a scalping mentality, although I will say that stop was prob in one of the worst places i could have put it

long 1 cl 6977 stop 6959

stopped out

sold 2, 70.71 stop 70.81

Nowadays scalping in the ES ussually means 2-4 pts for me, earlier in the year it was less and at times unscalpable, at least for me anyway just cause the ATR got so ridiculously low during that last leg up. Ussually I might enter with either 2 or 3 contracts exit one after a couple points and...

I know what you mean, playing a breakout with a stop loss can be tricky/dangerous, ideally im long a couple contracts before then like in the cup example i gave but its hard to predict ahead of time how i'd get into those positions. Ideally I dont initiate the entire position with the stop loss...

I've been meaning to post on this thread for awhile but never seem to be able to manage that multi task challenge of watching markets/trading and posting at the same time. Anyway this week I'm going to make more of an effort to give it a go. Here's what I'll be looking for. Basically I'm...

i see 10 on xtrader