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What are you thinking of trading and in what time frame? If you want to try day trading I'd suggest opening a demo account through global futures (or any other futures broker who offers one) and mess with the index futs. No harm in losing fake money. If you want to hold overnight then you...

Why traders gravitate to patterns/trends is beyond me. How do you know an ascending triangle won't turn into a bear wedge once it breaks out? Should you buy the move above resistance or sell the drop below support. Or should you sell resistance or buy support? So there you have 4 choices, or...

Market's gotta be rigged -------->>> Sounds as though you are looking to place blame for losing trades. Whenever I read a post that says anything to the effect of, "Manipulation, rigged, fixed....etc...." I know I'm reading a post from a losing trader. New Year's Resolution: Scrap what you...

Exactly Right. If you say or do something that goes against conventional wisdom you will catch heat for it. That almost ensures you are on to something!

Here's another trade. Nothing really complicated.....they're selling, I'm buying. The market will probably be range bound this week with the light volume so I felt real good about this trigger. There's a lot of judgment involved in picking bottoms so this takes lots and lots of practice. I...

A larger account does give you an advantage. I don't like to go over 20% equity for futures trading but if conditions warrant it I will. If I see one of those "can't miss" setups I'll go bigger but those setups are rare and you can never be sure about the "can't miss." I started trading the...

You are exactly right when you say you can get caught in a silent trend. That's happened to me a few times. There's no way to know until after the fact. All I can do at that point is take my loss. It happens. In fact, that's the reason I took the point on that short earlier. Low volume...

At the end everything is about perception!!!----------->>>> This is the key. One of my trading buddies looks to do 1 or 2 trades per day and hold for the big swing. I'm just the opposite. I look to do 10 or 15 trades per day and look for the small corrections. You just have to develop a...

Here are two trades from this AM. They will probably be my only two trades today. The first one is a simple buy on weakness and wait for an uptick. The market gave me 2 points so I took it. Had this gone lower I would have stopped out rather than add because the downside potential was high...

Once you have blown up your account you will find you can no longer make the payments on your sub-prime mortgage but no worries mate. Direct yourself to the following link and as nicely as you can write a letter to "Ben" and ask for help. Your worries will be over and you can try again later...

Pick up the phone, call Citigroup, take all the equity out of your house and acquire a sub-prime mortgage. Deposit the funds into a futures trading account and go FULL MARGIN at the market and you'll get your answer to all of your questions. :p

This isn't much help to the unemployed.

The DOM has no value for making trading decisions in the fut's market because there's either a ton of orders sitting on it that will never be executed, or orders change so fast that getting a read impossible. It is VERY useful for placing orders though. I'd be lost without it.

Their charts can lag behind the quotes by as much as 15 seconds? No DOM? Filtered ES quotes? And you find this acceptable? This sounds like the worst platform out there. Delayed information in the futures market will kill you. I would suggest trying Global Futures', Global Strategy...

You bring up some excellent points here but you are well versed in this business. If the OP went to potential investors and said, "I earned 2000% this year" he will have more money than he knows what to do with. Average Joe investor has never heard of a Sharpe or Sortino ratio. All they...

Alright, I'll post more. I wasn't planning on doing more because it's time consuming drawing up the charts but when the market gets a little slow during the day I'll post again.

ROTF!!!

Alright traders, this guy responded exactly the same way on the other thread. He isn't serious about trading and is hanging around ET to get his jollies, which isn't such a bad thing because ET makes me ROTFLOL at times. Enjoy increasenow.

Yep, that will work but I've had the market slice through my MIT and get my out at a higher price on occasion. At least with an MIT you have a fighting chance at getting a higher tick. I agree with you however, a tick worse is probably what you will get.

He needs to change his handle to "increaselater" and study his a$$ off. People just don't seem to want to put in the work. They want to reap the rewards now. My education in the market is equal to what a doctor has to go through to complete medical school. High paying jobs have to be...