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open an account with interactive brokers and use quotetracker for charting IB charges $10 per month if you do not make any trades, quotetracker is free

qcharts is offering a free 30 day trial, just do a search on qcharts and you will find the link

quotetracker.com is a free charting program that works with IB quotes.

Now you have to start paying for your information. The easiest to use for historical charting that goes back that far is qcharts from quote.com. However, it has had problems in real time. They used to offer a trial for free. Do a search here, and you may find they still do. Interactive...

here's the quote from nitro: 05-11-03 10:33 PM Re: Advise for new futures trader. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from Vas62: Hi all. I'm going to start trading ES and/or NQ in a few months. I traded stocks part time since...

here is a post from dbphoenix that I think is a keeper: there is another one from nitro that is also excellent, I will try to find it. nitro basically recommends starting with the SPY with 100 share trades and taking signals from the ES, and increasing size as you become profitable. My...

WTG! not saying I believe you or not, but it was a very entertaining story. IF you do not make it trading you can always be a writer.

if you are not following a set of rules you are just gambling

mali, if you are really a good trader, then go for it and you have all the money you have ever wanted, mail, if you are not a good trader and have just been lucky, think about what you will do if you cannot make a living at trading

no discipline = short trading career get a plan and stick to it

Daniel_M, find another dream and pursue it with the same passion you had for trading. I would suggest applying one maxim from trading to your new goal. Evaluate it from the risk:reward, and not just monetary rewards, but also the other rewards of trading like independence, freedom, and...

IMO, the keltner's change is not that great and would not affect your p/l over the long run. Also, you could check in every 20-30 minutes and adjust the orders if you really needed to. Setting up a bracket order is pretty easy. Here is a link on how to do it with IB...

thanks for the great journal, Interactive Brokers has bracket trading, where if one order is triggered, the other is cancelled. I'm sure other platforms have this as well. It allows you to set a stop and a target and walk away. It looks like that would completment this method. You said...

do a search, there have been lots of threads on this

disagree, you need to follow your method yes, you need to have patience, and not compound your losses by trying to win them back

'what the hell' trades are gambling, and not even good gambling

bubba7 (Jack Hershey, I assume), you say to enter only winning trades, and yet the method you promote for beginners is a breakout method where many (maybe most?) of the trades fail quickly. your answer to that is to do wash trades, I agree completely and that is the essence of cut losers...

OK, we now know your opinion about the best ways to lose, what do you think are the best ways to win?

good post, I think. Care to elaborate on how to get to 'afterward.' How do you measure volatility? When do you decide it's time to scalp? How do you scalp? Also, are you talking scalping as buy bid sell ask, or something else? If you answer any of these, thanks.

agree, that paper trading has limited value, the exception is that if you can simulate on your actual trading platform, there is value in getting used to the way the software feels also, someone once said on this board 'trade the simulator like its the real thing, and trade the real thing...