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I have met John Murphy in 73, Mr. Donchian at Shearson in 75, I have also met Mark Kingdon (recepient of Institutional Investor Lifetime Achievement Award) and traded across the ring with some Turtles including Dennis' brother in the early eighties but my most interesting encounter was...

Which E-mini contract to trade should not be determined by anecdotal classification of the relative difficulty trading them but by the trader's style of trading, which hopefully relates to the nature of the price fluctuations of the particular contract. NQ and ER2 are broad based and less...

I truly appreciate all the responses. Since the date of my original posting my situation have changed somewhat in that I started trading E-minis from home in my IB account and I am doing quite well. By well I mean that in a very high percentage of the 5-20 times a day that I engage the...

hedgeking is not a newby and his losses are probably real he has been on another board for well over a year under a different handle and he was very (maybe hyper?) active after posting about his loss on that board he got little sympathy and the thread drifted into something else i...

It maybe useful to sign up up for the Fearless Forecasters at the Traders-Talk.com board. Lots of high level TA postings and you can follow them as the market moves evolve. http://www.traders-talk.com/mb2/index.php?showforum=2 another great TA board is http://www.technicalwatch.com/

The above description of conditions in the Cattle and FC pits is a key to the riddle how the Junior Senator from NY (back at the time when her husband was the governor of Arkansas) made 100K in Cattle futures starting with 1K. No paper trail, brokers switching orders, upstairs crooked...

Several earlier posts are noting that IB's platform does not have charting but it actually does. The latest feature is plotting implied volatility real time. I am using the IB platform charts for tick type charting and my regular package for more complicated setups. One thing about...

As a measurement of liquidity open interest and volume are practical but don't tell the whole story. Here are just a few other aspects: Open outcry futures that have low open interest but an aggressive floor populations can be more liquid then some others that have a large open interest of...

Trackready, sometimes you can grab stock- not to miss the move - while you work your way into the option position.

As I was looking through Craigslist and Yahoo I found quite a few ads from prop firms and certain names keep popping up: Assent, Dimension Generic Hold Brothers Lynx Prestige Thor Capital Some other firms do not reveal their name in the ads. Since I am about to send out my...

I was an independent floortrader at one of the commodity exchanges. I traded positions based on charts and spreads on feel. I have to say that the most successful short term traders I have encountered there have not used charts but had a good feel for the RITHM of the market. Watching these...

I agree. as long as it stays in the weekly up channel one should not think bear. As a matter of fact setting up a pair trade with transports (IYT) may be a timely idea.