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How about Parma OH? That's where I'm from. Not Akron, but I'll be at Firestone CC for the NEC friday, saturday and possibly Sunday.

Hello, Great thread so far. It's interesting to see how well, or not so well, random trading works. Any suggestions for parameters to use this type of trading in ZN? Converting the suggested target/stop on ES to YM gives about a 48 point target and a 190 point stop. I wonder how that would...

What I mean by that last comment is to turn it into a spread when I have a very SMALL loss. Therefore, I can "regroup" and look to leg out OR have the spread move in my favor and then close it.:cool:

this is a very intersting post, but I am a bit confused about something. Let's say that I BUY an es ym spread at 40 and it goes against me and becomes 90. If I simply KEEP IT, it will probably come back to 40 or 30. I realize this may take days, but taking a loss, means that you have to then...

Do you mean 1 point as in from 8533 to 8534? If you do, WOW Although, I have to admit I did this with ONE contract accidentally and made $10.00 before commissions. GREAT FUN What was NOT great fun was keeping a loser, cost me 400.00, but I will carry on. Just a thought on a strategy...

Hello, Just my 2 cents worth. I completed my first week (starting tues) trading mini dow futures with IB. I am a stock trader of 17 years, but have attempted day trading only since 1998. Off and on with off an on success. No previous futures experience ON FUTURES. All I have to say is WOW...

Hello, I am just now looking at IB's order entry screen. Somewhat intimidating !! A quick question, what is the symbol for the mini dow? I though it was ymz2 (for dec contract) when I enter ymz2#ace in the symbol space I get "symbol not found" this account is cleared for futures trading. I...

Many thanks, I am still thinking about 11.00 Ameritrade commisions with 2.50 in sec fees for 1000 shares of diamonds !! Good point about scaling in as well

This IS off of the subject, but I was wondering if someone could answer an IB question for a futures newbie. If I trade a dow mini contract and then decide I'd like to go to 2 contracts per trade, wouldn't it be BETTER from a commissions standpoint to trade just ONE of the full sized contracts...

Thanks for the response. Perhaps condensing the daily trades into one between 9:35 and 9:51, a second in the ten o'clock hour, a third at noon and a fourth at 1:20 pm. Maybe this may make it feasible for stocks? or am I crazy? I accept either alternative with a :)

A very fascinating thread. Especially for a very undisciplined trader like myself. My question, could this be adapted to stocks or to an index based stock like DIA or QQQ? If so, any ideas? I would think that you would probably trade fewer times since stocks tend to move somewhat slower. Also, I...