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TOS thinkDesktop is free with delayed quotes. Just go and try it. I did options with them with a short period of time (now in forex), and it offers a lot with some very good charts to go along with it. Give it a shot and watch the tutorials on options on their site. When you open an...

Brief trading day today. Total 50.6 pip loss with trades of -21.2 (2 min), -18 (4 min), and -11.4 (47 min). The charts are attached. My drawdown limit was 40, but after being down 39.2 after the first two trades I decided that I should have a max of 50 with no new trades after closing with a...

It really does seem like a great deal. I didn't yet look into the trade minimums, just since I didn't qualify for the account minimums in the first place, but it seems like I will have to wait even longer before I try it then. I haven't found another place with nearly as good spreads. Oanda...

Thanks for the tip, 4XQs. I have been aware that the spreads at IB are excellent, and would very much like to open an account there. Unfortunately, the minimum is three grand, and I personally only have two (if I decide to use all my spare cash). As a result, I will likely have to wait...

My first practice account was with Gain actually (forex.com), but they were not all that great. NinjaTrader was one of the first platforms I learned however, so I will be very happy to set up the Gain connection. Thanks! This does leave me with charts from very many different sources...

Currently, between Oanda and TOS, I have 5 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 hr, 2 hr, 3 hr, 4 hr, 1 day, 1 wk, 1 month, 1 yr. I would also like to get 2 min, 3 min, 4 min, 6 hr, and 12 hr, and whatever I can find. Even if it results in a lot of charts, I want to be able...

Wanted to reflect briefly on my trading last night. I was not being very adaptive to the market, as the trend and market organization was lining up with the 15-30 min time frames. Although in hindsight, I should have seen this very easily, especially as the bearish lines didn't exactly line...

Didn’t do that well today. Eight trades in 2 hours, 10 minutes, with a loss of 41 pips (had to close with 40 drawdown limit). Didn’t have a good grasp of market direction most of the time either. Trades: -9.5, -6, -9, +18.9, -12.5, -8.5, -8.9, -5.5. Had several things go my way...

4XQs, Could you describe trading with an ECN? Thanks.

Very interesting. I am similar in trading -- I only trade PA and TL based along with pivots and a sparing use of fibs. I do not keep track of fundamentals, nor news, although I would like to eventually (just haven't had the time to keep up with calendars and track news announcements, and it is...

Mid-day Analysis Wanted to reflect quickly on what resulted out of my analysis. It very much seems that my bearish re-analysis was wrong, but I think it was actually very good. Immediately following my watching time frame the market finished a developing swing down and then had another and...

Today was a pretty good watching session. I saw some holes in my analysis which misled me at certain points, but also had a really good feel at certain times. I remember there was one point I was really confused seeing a bullish 1 min and a bullish reversal-looking hourly, but went through a...

Today I worked on some more maintenance things that will count for next week's hours. I worked on editing all my documents including my trading rules, market observations, long term list of things to do, goals, and several changes in the money management document I just posted (four straight...

This is my money management plan. I saved it in .doc instead of .docx so I think it should work. Most of my rules don't apply as I am not changing lot sizing right now (only doing my single lot) nor am I withdrawing paper money, working with trading and living expenses, etc. My focus is...

Gringinho, Currently my goals are relatively fast profits. This is due to several reasons, including: limited trading times combined with the desire for consistency (over four trades in a session should begin to average out), and also not to give back profits. I don't mind holding...

Cutting my day short again. Kind of day that started out very benign (as did PA) but then just got increasingly painful. I’m going to revisit what happened: Before the beginning of the consolidation that ended up turning into whopping pips, I only made one trade that resulted in just a...

Today was a fantastic observing day, I thought. I nearly always had a great idea of market direction (I believe I got jumbled only two times, once after the very first correction after the top (the second correction got me a bit confused), and another time that was only very minor. With that...

Today was supposed to be a study day, but I accomplished far less that I even did last week when it comes to actual writings in one of my journals. I analyzed maybe a quarter of a single move. From there, I moved on to watching for the day, getting sidetracked with fibs, pivots, organizing...

Perhaps you all are right. Since I've been trading paper, I figured money management didn't really matter that much (my plan was to spend the last three or so weeks of paper trading formulating and practicing my plan). Currently, I only have a few definitions of how much I am willing to...

Right now, just trying to turn the negatives into week after week positives. Btw, I do understand your critiques of my studying the market moves, but due to my repeated failures week after week, I believe I need to grasp a firmer understanding of the moves I'm trying to catch. I will keep it...