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J-Law, i am exclusively trading spreads and make nice profits. I am trading spreads in the grains, the meat-markets and interest rates (ED.US and TY). For me the major advantages of spread trading are the following: 1. Trading spreads takes less time than daytrading, that I did before...

In addition to the presentation, there is a 50 pages detailed description of the "Law of Charts", the "Traders Trick Entry" and "how to identify a congestion" available. Go to http://www.tradingeducators.com/free_trading_manual.htm, and submit your e-mail address. Then you receive a 1MB...

ADX_Trader, Spreading is one of the most conservative forms of trading. In my opinion it is much safer than the trading of outright futures contracts, because you don't have these huge interday gaps. I would define spread-trading rather as "hedging" than arbitrage: You are selling of one...

Dojibear, In entered the spread at 1.92. I place my stop loss based on the margin of a spread, because the margin reflects the volatility. I am risking 50% of the spread margin, i.e. $600 per contract on the NOB (Margin is appr. $1,150). That's more or less the same concept as you use...

ADX_Trader, that's interesting: What entry signals do you derive from a 5-min.-chart? I changed to 15- and 30-min. charts, because on these charts I could identify some nice chart patterns. Are you a scalp-trader? If so, 1-2 ticks would be sufficient for you. When daytrading the Bonds...

Hi ADX_Trader, I was daytrading Bonds on a 15- and 30-min. Chart. I used 6 ticks as my initial stop loss and realized profits on 1/3 of my position, when I was up 6 ticks. On the other 2/3 of my position I used a trailing stop on a 5 min. Chart. A couple of months ago I quit daytrading...

NihabaAshi, yes and no: Joe posts trades in live-realtime chat discussions during market hours, but that chat is restricted to his students only. Markus

Here's a weekly chat: http://www.tradingeducators.com/studentsonly/chat.htm It's free. you just have to send an e-mail to receive the instructions how to enter the chat. Topics are - Futures position trading - Futures spread trading and - sometime daytrading e-minis...