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    YM traders??/

    I should have added: HOW MANY contacts per DAY HOW MANY contacts per clip???
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    YM traders??/

    Just checking how many/who trades YM here? Actually, YM and ES. Thanks!
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    Day-Trading 2.0 for small traders

    How do you determine the market bias? Based on what indicators/trends?
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    suedeuno, part of my problem was is um how do you say it....GREED. My standard target setup originally was/is: +5 +10 +whatever after setting loss to break even. Setup with 6 point trailing stop. that setup above at least you reduce the risk while making some money when market turns...
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    Market very volatile...10-point stop is not working, keeps taking me out. Came back to trading at 11 AM PST...made some mistakes...some are due to technicalities...had changed the defaul contact to 1 instead of 3 but changes were not saved so went more contaracts then needed... Stopped...
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    Did not trade Feb 4th(yesterday) Started morning session Up 165 then Down -$189 back to break-even -20 now standing at -$305. It appears I am taking every single trade when it comes up and impulse trading. Going to walk away until 11AM PST and then start again. I need to learn to stop...
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    good portion of losing Friday was due to me fading YM as it kept making new highs. Now after revising...it important to keep an eye on TRIN and TICK....most of the day TICK was above 0 line and hit my key levels of +800-1000 regularly while TRIN remained below 1 reading around .97, 80, 78 for...
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    reviwed my sales...good portion of "bad" trades were from market orders...tho YM is very liquid and mostly penny or 2/3 spread you can still can make to get bad fills with the market orders especially during crazy volatility like we've been having. Adding it to my rule book to very, very...
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    Tell me volatility....indeed things have been swinging like crazy, in fact most of positions kept taken out because I use 5-point trailing stop. With Infinity you can set your regular stop which is 10-ponts but also trailing and distance for trailing. Say you hit your 1st tartget of 5points...
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    Trading journal with start capital $25K - Equities

    Who is the second one?
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    Paying $5 R/T with Infinity, I am trading 3 contracts per clip with following scale out schedule: +5 +10 +20 (or running) Initial stop-loss 10 points with 5 points trailing.
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    SuperVol's YM Trading Journal

    This is a span-off my equity trading journal I had started in late last year. <a href="http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111192">Trading with $25K-Equities </a> Since Dec and through Jan. I trained on futures and opened and use a platform from Infinity Futures. I opened...
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    I wonder why media does not talk about this law much
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    very intresting
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    Blackjack, I think you mean to say California is "non-judicial" foreclosure state...which means there will be no criminal legal action by the bank...but it'll take over the home. Same thing was mentioned on 60-min last night.
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    interesting....there was a piece on tonights 60-minutes...about Stockton, CA where ppl simply walking away from their homes....
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    1099 & Sched D's from IB and TradeStation

    I wonder when TS & IB will make these annual tax statements available for tax filing. Has anyone received theirs?
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    Infinity Futures

    I want to open an account but a bit concerend they are being a new company. Like their no-bs platform very much. Any experience with Infinity Futures?
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    Nik, his house is not paid for. He did a 100% financing and current balance is $200K higher than market yet. Another example. House is worth at market reate at 300K but his loan balance is 500K. Now he is thinking to buy a bigger house in a nicer location for $300K and 'walking away from his...
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    He is tryng to buy a house before he lets th is current house go.
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