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it qualified, unless you get nitpicky about the time as the trigger was 11:20. in 1010.25 out 1014.25..

Why does it matter what JR's performance is? Let's not make this a pissin' contest.

I didn't take it. Of course it looks good now but at the time I thought, 4:55am outside bar, 5:00am seemed to pull back a bit too much into the ema so as of 5:00am I made the call to walk away and fix some coffee. Goes to figure it probably broke out within 2 minutues after I walked downstairs...

my short entry earlier probably had some flaws. looking at the attached dax chart, it was close to a short setup but according to jr's guidelines the bo bar at 3:45 didn't penetrate the lower bb. considering estx didn't confirm at all probably could of left the short alone.

pretty soon you'll be able to call yourself one of the "elite" :) I took a short this am.. wasn't to be. dax actually was the setup that triggered my entry but I told myself I was gonna stick with estx50 for a week or two until I'm more accustomed to the moves of dax. didn't get a lower lo...

I don't have my charts here on this laptop but if I recall I passed on any entry around that 3:30 timeframe because of all the overlaping bars, it was messy and low odds imo for a 4 point move. I shut down my trading platform at that time.

oops... just looked at the chart JR posted. I see the point.

I was a bit ticked about missing that move yesterday afternoon but in the larger scheme of things it probably wasn't that bad of a move to crowd my stop like I did. I was in the mentality that this thing should of moved by now according to your guidleline of bailing after 4-6 bars if the trade...

missing that last one was fustrating for me, hope you guys got it. just when I think I've got the issue with sloppy, emotional trading under control and forget to consciously control it, it comes back and kicks me in the ass. At least I'm aware of the problem, afternoons are generally bad for...

I know. this is an issue for me sometimes, I got lulled into convincing myself it wasn't going. 1003.5 actually was my stop and I made an emotional decision/mistake to get out.

grr... now it goes. crowded my stop too close?

here's an afternoon setup that didn't work. entered at 1005.5 around 14:20. stuck it out for almost an hour took 1/2 partial at 1006 on the last visit there when it started looking like it wasn't going anywhere. Took stop at 1004.5. Cost me 1/2 pt es. Typical afternoon play for me. Can't...

Thanks.. I read most of the threads. didn't sound like a big deal for this type of trading, I'll probably go ahead and add eurex to esignal. Don't like having my charts split between 2 platforms as I have it now.

how bad are the eurex quotes on esignal? if it's just a 10-15 sec delay I could live with it until they hopefully resolve it. I'm using sierra as JR recommended for eurex quotes but it would be nice if I could get them all in a consistent format on esignal.

the above was for the 9:40-11:00am forgot to mention the euro open. I did trade 3-5am but saw not setup that I was willing to take. looks like I got my 1005 :) 45 es points on 6 lot. I'm done for the day.

Took 5 off of ES so far and still have some open. See attached. Entered at 995, my initial stop was 993 took 1st profit at 1000. Offering 1005 or stop at 1002.5 for the rest. Once locked a profit at 1000 I felt that I wanted to leave some open rather than take the full chunk as you propose...

I think I was really thinking about gaps, just didn't articulate it. I'm sure that's a thread on it's own.

Do you find yourself making many trades during the 1st hour of Euro trading, i.e. 3-4am east coast time? It seems to me like probably highly descretionary at least per the system you describe as it takes about an hour for the BB to come together on the 5 min chart. During this timeframe would...

ninjatrader's not bad. I've been playing with it for a couple days using the demo account. maybe next week I'll try it live. Thanks for planting the idea about trading DAX, I've had tunnel vision all this time trading ES/YM/NQ. We've had some decent hits on it this week. I enjoy trading the...

I'm truly sorry for his difficulties. I hope that I will survive but it's a tough business. my 2 cents though, he has over 2000 ET post and taking a quick look at them it doesn't appear that there's really much serious content there. I'm sure Gordon and other 1000+ posters are in into ET as a...