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Hi Richard: So if I understand correctly, I dont have to list every e mini trade that I did during the year, just figure out what the P&L is for the total year and include that on a 6781?

Does your charts have your account number on them? I cant see how someone can obtain your acct info from a screen shot. Heres one of my screenshots: http://www.ttrader.com/mycharts/display.php?p=17798&u=dominic&a=Dominic%20Charts&id=866

Anyone care to post the average points that they have been pulling or losing from the ES or NQ daily/weekly? No need to list your paper trading; real trades only. That should eliminate approx 80% of the useless info or advice received. I have been pulling down approx $14K a month from...

TIME AND CHANCE HAPPEN TO ALL. Many of the classic books that traders read, one common theme is that the author had/has lost big time; on average approx 3 times. MANY have lost it all and came back, and MANY have lost it all and never came back. There are plenty of firms, hedge funds...

their advice and input in regards to my previous questions. I appreciate your time and have started a new trading journal under Trading For a Living and hope to have you guys visit and give me some more pointers. Thanks again. Dominic

After receiving some very useful and insightful info from the Futures board members, I have decided starting Monday, Dec 29th to start posting my Future E Mini trades. For the record, I will have been trading the S&P e minis for 2 weeks come Tuesday and current P&L is close to -$2000.00 since...

So I must assume that everyone here makes a tidy profit everyday? I have stated in previous messages that I'm down $1500 and plus some more today in the last week; anyone else care to share some real facts and numbers, not just opinions. Its interesting getting advice from others who just paper...

I went short at 95.25 @ 9:50 a.m. because my head was up my a$$. I guess hindsight is always correct. MACD on DJI looked topped out and 1095 +/- .25 was a previous high the last three trading days. RSI was also above 70 at the time. I have always tried to keep it simple and didn't want to get...

So a 1:3 Risk/Benefit is excepting a 1 point loss for a 3 point gain?

After looking over the different losing trades, I believe that I have had my stops set to close. It seems that the 1.75-2.0 points stops get taken out, then to move back in my favor; case in point, I went short today ESH4 @1095.25 and stop was taken out @ 1097.00 (high of day). I'm going...

I would agree with you; my problem was not with my plan but that I violated my plan. I had 2 large losses that resulted from me pulling a stop loss order because I saw it about to get taken out; then I decided to add to losing position which just compounded the problem.

I have just started trading the e minis last week and closed down $1500 for the week trading the ESH4. I only trade between 2-5 contracts at a time, don't hold overnight, and set a 1.75 stop loss. Wondering if the NQH4 might be any more forgiving than the ESH4 or both about the same?

Trading the e minis have been harder than I had thought! I started trading them 1 week ago and down -$1500.00. Shame on me for being honest and posting that I have a loss. Seems like all you see is everyone posting how much they have made and never a loss. I'm not sure if the e minis...

I'm wondering why I'm even using CyberTrader then if I cant trade the futures after hours? Maybe IB is the way to go.

I was just asking a simple question. I thought that there are brokers that will allow you to trade the e minis around the clock (except for certain maintenance times on Globex). I cant trade the e mini until tomorrow morning and wanted to find a firm that would allow me to trade them if I...

If you wanted too, could you trade the eminis this moment or do you have to wait until tomorrow morning?

I have just recently started trading e minis thru my broker, CyberTrader. I have been with CT for 3 years trading equities and I'm enjoying trading the futures over equities more and more. I have seen some comments about IB; does anyone know if IB is better/worse in regards to charts and...

I'm just starting out trading futures: I'm retail and CyberTrader, my broker, uses BNP for clearing firm. http://www.bnppbs.com/html/index2.html

I can import my future trades into either Excel or pdf from my clearing firm (BNP Paribas). When I import the trades into Excel there are no year end totals such as total contracts traded, commissions totals, etc. I"m sure that there is a way to have Excel total everything; any idea how I go...

So have you started to trade live yet? Its a completely different world trading funny money than your own. Emotions dominant the markets and that is a huge factor that you haven't been having to deal with yet. I think that you'll find trying to control and manage your thoughts and emotions...