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how to select strategy according to market condition? One has to have set criteria to measure different aspects of market condition and one's trading methods/systems should be structured to take advantage of recurring favorable conditions. So, one should not try to fit different...

One can find a whole range of language teaching products on Ebay . The best material is not a book or set of cards but interactive audio visual CD sets. I wish products like these were available when I was learning German and English(I am originally Hungarian). Try the interactive CD sets...

I found Joe Ross material as well as some other useful stuff here: http://www.trading-naked.com/Articles_and_Reprints.htm :)

Seasonalcharts.com shows cash Hogs stronger until late December and Hog Futures irregularly higher into early next year. I do not have a position but if I had to take one I would buy it on a pullback. GC

I am also client of IB. They are other factors to consider besides the rates. IB for example is great at providing discounted data feed at low rates while TS, for example charges full rate for each exchange. In addition I find the Universal Account very convenient. Currently I am paying...

At some point wealth managers from countries with stronger currencies will start picking up discounted US assets, Real Estate, Land, Corporations and their stocks. Of course the market will start swinging back before then simply due to a shift in momentum. GC

I have been scalping ER2 for a long time and from that I moved over to CL. Scalping in both of those markets involves fading moves when I sense that an intraday move or flurry is meeting resistance or seems to lose steam. I am in my element in those markets and move in an out of them with...

hrokling, Thanks for maintaining this journal. I enjoy reading it and I am learning from it. An observation on your Meal spread. I have been trading since the seventies and there used to be a theme in meal spreads, kind of a limited risk setup, buying Dec/Jan and Jan/March at a discount...

Sugar has been trading on the Coffee and Sugar Exchange, now NYBOT, for eons and like with any physical commodity the exchange provides services to the industry besides trading the contract. They are involved in aspects of education, grading, inspecting, warehousing and administering...

It will be interesting to see how this plays out since both cash ans futures seasonals are up from November 1 through about 20th of November. I took a small long position on Friday and plan to add to it on strength, if it comes. GC

While runaway markets do not seem to have meaningful retracements in price, because the incessant buying(or selling) keeps corrections shallow, they do have fluctuations in momentum. Depending on the time scale one choses there are opportunities to get in with manageable risk in the corrections...

Try Neo Ticker by Tick-quest. GC

I have not yet figured out how to post charts in TradeStation but I am working on it. It's the uptrend line from Aug 17 on the hourly, except the ES/SPY charts look better. So I suspect DAX will be relatively stronger then the others. A little dollar strength would help with that. GC

60 points from the abyss. GC

In the nineteen seventies soybeans locked limit for over twenty days. Draw your own conclusions whether it is worth fighting markets like that. They may be a condition when one morning (not necessarily Wheat this time) the front month will be up the equivalent of several limits so the...

IB is not just a broker but one of the larger market makers in options. They invented some of this stuff, Peterffy was the first person ever to trade on an exchange floor with a hand held computer, at fist they banned him :),and know more about risk then we can grasp. Astutely they do not...

The question is too broad. What style ? One of our current presidential candidates made 100k starting with 1k and when pressed how she could make such outrageous returns when pros are turning in low two digits she said she read the WSJ daily. For a scalper like me it is the best not to...

Oh no, please no! I had to erase VISTA from my new DELL and load WIN XP Pro because neither the TS or IB platforms worked properly. with VISTA. I spent hours with some TS support who basically could not help me. Looks like it will be a while until the various vendors for VISTA work...

I have been scalping DAX for almost two weeks and I like it. I am used to fading the CL and ER2 for a few ticks which does not quite work in DAX because the potential losses are bigger, so I try to trade more in the direction of the flow and I am holding onto gains a bit longer. The 16 second...

The quote about the over 60% winning percentage was from enlightenedtrader. I simply seconded it. I am not interested in backtesting my method because I am trading it every hour of the day in real time with real money in all market conditions. It has evolved over time and suits my...