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    Whats the Nasdaq's Ceiling?

    value of apples paper
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    Whats the Nasdaq's Ceiling?

    By nasdaq i mean NQ. We've had a hell of a run thus far and people believe that this is only the beginning of the bull run... We had a 40 point run alone in the first hour of trading on friday and the market breadth diverged... I don;t like to fight the tap but i'm a counter trend trader...
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    Lol, sorry Daring but I don't "buy the dip" I have a propensity to fade this rally and the one system that I have under my belt is shorts only
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    I have a rough trading plan... with a few solid (research and backtested ideas) - only recently have I started to look into the opening... I will be revisiting your thread on the trading plan and wyckoff forum today. Once again, I apologize for the hostility. All the best in your trading...
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    To be honest with you DB, I'm afraid of losing money for horrible stop placement (case and point why I am posting today in regards to my trade) - I took it off the table far to early in fear of losing money. I apologize to being a little rude and hostile to you; however, I don't take...
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    When should you increase size?

    Widetailz, Thank you i appreciate that
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    I'm up 20% for the year so blow a goat dbphoenix I post to get questions answered
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    Also what is your process for looking for and evaluating trade ideas? (if you don't mind sharing a bit)
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    MrN Appreciate that I'm actually trying to deduct where I went wrong today. I traded the NQ for an ORB. Worked perfect and price stalled in the 80s. I had a down day yesterday so today i covered my losses from yday and was up some, didn't wana just break even. I saw price falling and took...
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    You only automate your trades eh? Quant wizard, curious do you work full time and let your system do its thing or do you watch it during the day so it doesn't freak out
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    When should you increase size?

    how uncommon or common is it for someone to trade a 50/100/500 lot on the index's? I know theres a ton of liquity but would a huge order like that be striking to an algo during the opening?
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    When should you increase size?

    The word "Tested" is very key Any suggestions on Testing an ORB with EOD data?
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    Trade Management - Letting your winners run and cutting your losers short

    I don't know how many people here experience this problem but when I make a daytrade, I'm always kicking myself... How do you approach you intraday trades in a systematic fashion so you have no regrets once you take the trade off the table?
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    When should you increase size?

    I currently trade 1 lots at the open and will put it up to two if i'm looking for an MR position midday. What kind of criteria do you use before you increase your size?
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    Backtesting an Opening Range Break out with EOD data?

    Thanks! been browsing through the thread, good stuff
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    What Sector(s) are currently leading this rally?

    What Sector(s) are currently leading this rally? I'd like to say that tech is and there is a divergence between the financials but I'd appreciate to hear some opinions on this
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    Developing Tail Risk Strategies

    I havn't looked at there recent trades but universa is an interesting fund only 20% eh...? I would have thought that they are attempting to bang out north of 40-50% returns with very minimal risk. I wont get into the details of my predominant strategy on this thread but the bread and...
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    Strategy Dev/Backtesting with OHLC vs Intraday Data

    propseeker, appreciate that Any suggestions on programming? I do all my analysis in excel right now and dont; know whether i should pick up R or Python
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    Developing Tail Risk Strategies

    I agree and thats kind of what makes it so appealing (if its used properly) I'd argue that one of the biggest downfalls with this strategy is that the duration of these trades are way to long which creates problems for a tail risk only fund or on the reverse a fund who deploys tail risk as...
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