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    My Trading Strategies-Critiques needed.

    You mentioned that you wanted to use SwingTrading techniques, but ended up daytrading. You need to stop mixing trading plans. STOP USING SWING TRADING SETUPS AND USE IT FOR DAYTRADING AND VICE VERSA! As others have mentioned, you need to start over from scratch before you lose all of your...
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    Three black crows

    Longer Term View - Descending Triangle. Charles
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    What's Your Edge? (For Equity Traders)

    Persistence and the enjoyment of being a perpetual student of the markets. Charles
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    Wolfe Wave course materials wanted

    Attached chart is the closest example that I could find quickly. Rules for buy setup: 1. #2 Wave is a Top. 2. #3 Wave is the bottom of a first decline. 3. #1 Wave is the bottom prior to #2 wave top. Point 3 must be lower than point 1. 4. Draw trend line from point 1 to point 3. The...
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    is the index important?

    It is definitely easier to trade in the direction of the index trend, since the majority of the stocks in the index universe will follow the overall direction of the index. However, if a particular stock has a strong countertrend move with the index, usually due to some surprising news, that...
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    Question About ETF'S

    http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/deardagen/1049339.html Charles
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    Pattern Day Trader question

    See NASD Rule 2520: http://www.speedtrader.com/nasd_rule_2520.html http://www.nasdr.com/pdf-text/0126ntm.pdf Charles
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    Oh Oh. The Poles Are Switching!

    Wear extra SunScreen just in case! Charles
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    Don't read this until Saturday morning!

    It's always someone else's fault! Charles
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    Trading Futures vs. Trading Stocks

    As a futures' trader, you have probably focused on just a few markets over the last ten years. This means that you have an intimate feel for intraday, short tem and long term market activity in these markets. This gives you the ability to anticipate moves in these markets just before they...
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    The Point of Charting and TA?!

    As a trader, you must find whatever tool that helps you the most to be able to perceive what the most probable future market direction is going to be. Charting is simply one of those tools that most people use. Others have a sense of future market direction simply by looking at a table of...
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    Seious weakness in SP-500

    If you like this type of data, you may find this interesting: http://home.mindspring.com/~nbuddy/sphotma.htm Charles
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    One Bad Trade

    See steps 13, 34 and 35 to becoming a successful trader: http://www.dacharts.com/articles/_38steps.htm Charles
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    The thing about "day trading"

    The idea of self-worth is a much discussed topic in literature, psychology and philosophy. It seems to be a major human preoccupation. Here are a few quotes on self-worth: Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value...
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    Teach Me to Trade - Workshops. Any ideas??

    Some interesting commets here: http://www.papersourceonline.com/discus/messages/1649/10863.html?1080597179 Charles
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    Futures questions from Beginner

    Also note that the $21,000 profit is for one contract. For one contract, you need a $2565 initial margin. If the position is a long term position, you just need $1900 to maintain the position. http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,1041,00.html Charles
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    Futures questions from Beginner

    This can be confusing. See http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/cont_detail/0,3206,959+14397,00.html for contract specs on soybeans. A one contract size is 5000 bushels of soybeans. Price is quoted in cents per bushel. In other words, a 0.25 point move is 0.25 cents per bushels or $0.0025 per...
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    Website for secondary offerings

    That didn't work, but just click on ! . Charles
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    Website for secondary offerings

    Same site will give you what you are asking for, I think. Click on the ! button for the Key Data of the SPO. For example, here is the Key Data for AXS: http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/SPOSummary.stm Charles
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    Website for secondary offerings

    http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/SPOSummary.stm
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