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Where's Mr. Bo Chin?

sim long .15 DEC, 5 tick stop (will switch to Jan contract after this trade) :34 stop to be :40 stopped out be - lately testing and tempted to go back to "scalping" (kind of) for 20-30 ticks :(

Hmmm... margin increases are for both longs and shorts... any increase in margin requirements is more painful for those who are in the red (in this case the shorts). If this were a squeeze, it should have gone parabolic up (as when oil was over 100 and they kept raising margins), not down...

Coming soon...

Choppy trend days (up or down) are a bitch to trade. If you can recognize you're in such a day your best bet is to enter (in the direction of the trend) in any correction with a minimal stop (several times until you "catch" it) and then hold your position till you hit major support/resistance...

Good question. Any takers?

sim short via stop at .30, 10 tick stop :44 killed it at .35 (-5 ticks) New order at .27 to short Was away for a moment, filled and stopped out at -10 ticks.

As a talking head or as a circus clown? :D (but thanks)

sim long .42 SAR .31 :02 Same as before, stop to be, cancel SAR and new order to short again at .31 :09 stop to .57 :10 stopped out .57 (+15)

Oil showing some resiliency here (comparatively speaking, that is)? Looking for a long. Edit: nobody home? :D

Austria saying that they will only pay their allocated contribution to Greece's rescue IF Greece delivers on their promises (which, according to the Austrians, they haven't so far). Ireland's MofF to give a press conference later. Edit: at <u>12:00 EST</u> Everything taking a good beating...

King (BoE) saying England highly exposed to Ireland.

King (BoE) saying England highly exposed to Ireland.

sim short .06, 10 tick stop target .60-ish :40 stop to be :42 stopped out be

sim long 83.11 SAR 83.04 Target between a test of .60 and a test of 84 flat - no adds, I think we have room to fall some more :15 stop to .19 (cancel SAR) and a new order to get short again at .04 Flipped at .31 (poor fill, but well, what can you do), stop .40 (+20 first leg of...

It seems we're going to open with a gap above at 1195 ES Dec. T-day all day long. :D

Where did BigHog's post go? :confused: Edit: possible dislocations in FX at 10:30 EST - Bank of England's governor speech. I know: trade what you see :D

Seems a really nice guy, sorry to hear that. Hope you're (kinda) ok.

Fading failed breakouts, I take it, not trading them :)

sim Stop-limit at .73 to get short; 10 tick stop; target 30 ticks :20, if it doesn't break down on the next push, cancel and long at .80-ish, target .20-ish; lotto-stop (<10 ticks) :35 was about to cancel when got filled short at .73 :39 still holding; after hours and with...