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Its not a bad idea, and honestly, it took me too long to figure this out, but many traders are watching a few markets for exactly this. They want to see correlation, and when they see it, the trades work even better. You can even add in the VIX, cause a very good trader I know watches this as...

I do actually think he may have something good if he just stuck with the NQ or ES. Adding CL is a big distraction, and it moves so much differently that it can really cause you to not be in the zone. It all comes down to his trade stats. The fact that he lost it all today in CL still...

Why does it need a fancy algorithm? Isn't it just simple math? For example. You place a limit order at 2450.00 and there are currently 700 waiting as we are a few ticks away at lets say 2451.00. This means that you would be order 701. If we tick down 1 tick, and you see the number drop to...

I hope that its not just because you lost money. Since you lost it in CL and not NQ, it sounds like maybe your trades just didn't work. It sucks to go through the PnL rollercoaster ride, but perhaps you shouldn't be hard on yourself if you did do what you intended to do.

I look at CL but I try not to even thing about trading it. It seems so easy given how far it can move when it starts moving, but honestly, this is a double edged sword. In many ways, ES is superior because when you are wrong, you can get out in seconds without too much damage, and it takes...

Good stuff, and I did know. My point was that given that the range has been about 40ish points, as you back up with your data, 23 points is a very big chunk of the range and not something a trader would expect to capture on most days. But you did, which was great, but to give it all back and...

Haha.. look who is talking now Mr. "I Just pulled 34.25 points"... "hope you guys got a piece of it". (as posted a few days ago) Plus, I don't mean to rub anything in. All I'm saying is that you make 23 NQ points, which is quite a bit considering the smaller ranges the past few weeks, but...

I gotta say, to be up 23 points in NQ and then somehow piss it all away and end up negative seems that there is something wrong with your method perhaps?

OMG... I see you started even another thread. Dude, the way you post makes me really think that you blowing up is just around the corner. You start a thread talking about remorse, and then you gloat about a 23 point profit. You're all over the map.

I think you really need your own journal thread, as in just one, where you write all this stuff down. Asking everyday, in always a new thread, how they did today is getting kind of stupid. The thing is you even have a CL journal thread already, so why not post there? It makes it much harder...

Hey @propwarrior , I read this article and thought of you. Unless I'm mistaken, you're always saying that its stupid retail that is shorting every high and stuff like this. I never really had any proof against this other than doubting that retail traders have enough fire power to make much of...

Ah, well then, I can see why you are having problems. I didn't even find threads via the links you posted, don't use ET that way, but I can see how you use it differently. To be honest though, there really isn't that much useful stuff here. I mean if you're profitable, you don't need to...

Don't get me wrong though @Jdesey , I'm not trying to pick on you, cause I've done plenty of that and you always comes around and try to back your shit up, but its just the way you sound is like a happy schoolgirl trying to sell lemonade and excited that you made $5 for the afternoon. I highly...

Don't you know? He's the expert trader in the house!!! I do hope he realizes that he just got lucky. I say this because his long trade was essentially just below the previous day high. Of course it can break, and it does all the time, but often that break is also followed by a deep...

Thanks for the explanation. I find this thread incredible because in a very short time, the difference between real trading and simply calling trades has already been clearly shown. A few times now, some of the posters, you and others, have gone long with tight stops, and been stopped out...

@dratsum I never quite understood why you were having problems with this. Here is a case analysis. I have the user @theapprentice on ignore, shown via this screenshot. (I erased the other names) Then today I was looking up new threads, and in the list was a thread started by him, the...

I'm confused, where and how did you scratch it? You never reported an exit, and today should have been the day where you were perhaps moving your stop higher to lock in profits.

Hey johnbennet... I see you've blocked me, and yet you replied to me, so which is it??? Obviously you won't see this post but geeeezzzz, one little comment where I pointed out from your own post how you're all over the map and you got all pissy.

I think you're absolutely right about this. Going forward, there will be huge structural changes. I read Amazon itself is responsible for one of the reasons why inflation isn't as good as they would like it to be. (lets not include housing though, cause clearly this number is through the roof...

You missed out the most critical factor I think, the risk department is in full swing at a firm. The new trader only has margin calls, or not enough margin to put on the next trade to "protect" him.