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lundy, What do you plan on trading and what edge do you have now that will make you successful this time? Richard

alain wrote: I've heard it said a couple of times that happiness can be defined as: having someone to love having something to do having something to look forward to This pretty much sums up what you wrote above, except for the aspect of modesty which I'm glad to see you have...

I just spoke to a Brown and Co. rep. this morning. They presently do not offer on line pre-market trading. If you need to trade pre-market with them, then you need to phone in and use a broker at $22 commission. Post-market trading is currently available on-line and I was assured that the...

taodr, "IB and size"; I thought size didn't matter ... never mind, that's something else ... I also regret that IB has priced itself out of large orders. I've confronted this problem and have been looking to take my business to less expensive brokers. The following is the information that...

m22au: I'm looking at ways someone living in Australia can trade US stocks. Is IB the best alternative? Richard

JonnyT, I'm an Aussie living in the US. I'm hoping you can answer a couple of questions I have. Can you suggest a brokerage in Australia which allows one to trade US stocks and has low commission rates. I'm particularly interested in brokerages that allow you to buy unlimited number of shares...

traderkay, You may want to chase up the data offered in this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2663&perpage=6&pagenumber=12 (Take a look at at pjtomtai's post at the above web page to see what was being offered). I also use Wealth-Lab, so I'd be interested...

Huios, Congratulations on your improving trading performance. In fact, I'm jealous. I'm still struggling. So much so I've decided to practice more using ensignsoftware's simu-broker (thanks qwiktrade for the recommendation). This software provides such a realist interface that I may forget that...

This is unfortunate. I understand your system to be purely mechanical and as such I think your journal will not generate as much interest here compared to all the others where we are witness to a trader's evolution (Huios, let me borrow your term). In your case, we will simply be presented...

I've just started to use HyperSnap-DX. How does it compare to Snagit? Richard

aphexcoil, Are you saying that the trend is much easier determined using tick charts? What is the period of your red MA? Do you use the blue one for anything? I 've been considering switching from qcharts to esignal. If I could get clear on the advantages of tick charts, this might do it...

Re: When to rollover to the next month's contract. The S&P futures expire the 3rd Friday of the month in March, June, Sept,and Dec. The day before the 2nd Friday of the month (Thursday) is the day the new contract begins to trade actively. This will usually be the 2nd Thursday of the month...

Maybe you can get by your problem of including TS code by enclosing it between "code" and "\code" (each of these need to be enclosed in [ and ] (without the quotes)). If that doesn't work, it's probably because of a character in TS that is being interpreted as HTML code. Just alter this...

Sharp, What you're describing is a well used modus operandi, take a look at my post on page 53 of this thread. Since you never know what the market will give you, you need to be prepared to milk it of all that it's got on a day like today. Richard

I downloaded your software and tried it out. Thank you for making it freely available. After using your software I thought about what functionality I would like from software like yours. What I came up with is the following. I would like to place initiating orders primarily using limit...

peter77 wrote: "By the way I heard that 53.985478 % of profits come in the morning and 41.387602% come in the afternoon and 4.626920% come between 9 PM and 4:59AM eastern which could be consdered morning by some and evening by others. Source: A guy named Louie I met at a Taco Bell."...

Huios, Congratulations on your success today. Excuse me if this has been addressed before but are you now trading off of 3 min charts? Also how are you using the 4 moving averages that appear on your 3 min chart. Maybe your next step is trying to be consistent. I wish you luck...

Huios, I see that our friend Tony agrees that your stops are not wide enough. Let me put it another way, I believe that as long as your stops are in the noise level then more often than not your trade will be a loser (albeit a small one). Pychologically, this can't be too motivating...

Huios, "I feel like I am just on the verge of a breakthrough." I enjoy your journal. I'm just a struggling trader myself so please feel free to take what I have to say with a grain of salt but I must say looking at your most recent trades that you appear to still have extremely small stop...

Qcharts was having problems too, but it seems to be OK now (10:55 EST). Richard