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Limitdown check your math. A 50-80,000 dollar position is greater than 2 percent of 2.5 million not 1/1000 percent. This also is not a too unreasonable risk allotment of capital either. If we continue with your example, only using correct math, 2.5 percent of 80,000 equity can buy a 2000...

This NASDAQ-100 site offers pre-market data but it is not streaming. The data starts at 8:15 every morning and continues until the open. You need to refresh the screen in order to get an update of the current price. http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/asp/pmi.asp I also like this heat map of all...

Do you guys think that this means that we are moving back to the high activity of the week of 9/17

Traded the skyscraper pattern on HLIT. Shorted the open at 11.89 and covered at my target the 200 MA on the five minute chart at 10.96. Thanks Tony. Good trading Steve

I would like to know how other traders handle intraday news that affects a trade that you are in negatively. I don't generally put hard stops on my positions because I feel that is giving too much information to MM and Specialist but I keep mental stops. I had a trade yesterday (short MXT)...

Nicodemus, Yes that is true that waiting an hour would mean that you would miss a lot of opportunities. I can envision that fifteen minutes and then thirty minutes into the trading day you can see the direction of the move i.e. whether your trading above or below the five minute average and...

liltradr I'm curious about this Directional Day Filter and if it works as advertised then it certainly would be a powerful tool in a Day Trader's arsenal. My questions for you are as follows... 1, I noticed from the chart provided in the material that the data used starts from 8:30 in...

Hitman I want to thank you and all the other contributors to these threads for all of the valuable information you provide to everyone trying to get a handle on trading the market. This my very first post on Elitetrader, though I have lurked here for many years. The reason I am posting...