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I've seen a full day's trades posted by some "superstar" traders and some of them call trades live, and I'll tell you that often it's not effortless. Often it's messy, scratch here, small loss there, small loss again, (that's a main ingredient of superstardom, small losses) then suddenly whoosh...

I know, I was totally counter-trend forever and a day. I had to trade breakouts at least 100 times in sim before I tried it live. Honestly I could not get myself to pull the trigger live, it felt so foreign to me to buy a HIGH or sell a LOW. It's human nature to want the best price. So as...

Thanks for your kind words! What a great long entry off the bottom of a very predictable end of day range. The re-entry signal IMHO was the breakout through the top of the range. Better to have stayed in the trade and wait for a test of the top of the range. Think about how many shorts there...

How would you compare YM to ES? What factors determine which one you're going to trade?

It's true, he's in there, I know his handle, and I ain't talkin! :p

Coolweb, this trade is not something I would even post if I was trying to impress someone with after-the-fact fake trades! I would've said: 12:55pm: Sh @ 1155.00, internal approximate double top, 2nd failure to break through the flat 20 EMA, covered @ 1145.75 because I know how to pick...

Actually, I called my first trade live in Robert's chat room and quite a few ET-ers can confirm that. By the second trade I was already managing a multi-lot CL trade, a losing long reversing to short and managing the ES multi-lot trade same time and did not call them live. It doesn't really...

Textbook end of day b/o, who played that one? I was in a chat room not even paying attention, figure the day was done.

CL trades for today (scratch, loss, win): 12:00pm: Sh CL @ 76.81, pullback from failed b/o, initial target 76.63, touched but no fill, stopped out 3 mins later @ 76.80. 1:50pm: Long CL @ 76.69, looking for b/o, failed, stopped out @ 76.62. 1:50pm: Reversed by way of double stop on...

ES for today (live): 1:13pm: Sh @ 1148.00 off failed micro-rally (cross-referenced 3-min) in a sharp down move, momentum play with stop quickly to b/e. Covered partial 2 mins later @ 1145.75, realizing I entered way too late and took something based on the feel of the price action there...

Tell me about it, Shortie! Thursday morning I almost put in a limit for CF @ $70 a just for the hell of it order, then decided to wait for earnings instead, and it hit the 68's during the crash!

Me neither. We need to all get on Skype together. It'll sound like a live trading pit :D

Yes was testing in the morning, felt it was overbought and the EMA was falling so I was shorting then too.

Nice one! I didn't even catch that.

I see the trend as down starting with a key reversal signal off the 12:15pm bar and full confirmation by way of the 12:35pm bar (5-min chart). I was busy being fully distracted and missed that confirmed signal and the subsequent move down and got nothing but the last 2-odd pts of it Did catch...

I had a 76.62 short exited partial @ 76.20 as well. Great minds, hee hee... :p

I'm cross-referencing 3-min ES chart now to help me in earlier. I hate wide stops, and I hate shakeouts :D Just nailed that down move in CL and ES same time, wow

Tomawk, I was simply taking any with-trend pivot point or reversal signal pivot point and using the control bar strategy and killed it in my sim account today. Then I realized I should be trading live and I chased ES horribly a little while ago sh @ 48 (1:14pm bar) trying to catch some final...

Wait a minute, someone posted somewhere today that there's a limit up on the market. They can stop it from going too high. Is that true? Isn't that un-American? Why would they stop the market from going too high??? :eek:

fwiw, I finally had one live trade today, sh CL @ 76.81 (12:00pm), initial target half @ 76.63 and SOMEONE got lifted there but NOT ME! Ended up stopped out 76.80. :mad: