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I trade futures (US, Eurex & Singapore), forex (mostly the majors), and equities listed on the the major indexes and sector ETFs. Why? To have the widest coverage of the market domestic/international as possible - for a swing trader that is how most of us do it these days.

What era are you from? A leased line is a thing of the far away past when the only broadband service as a leased line via T1. It was very expensive, and only had 1.5 Mb Bw - a joke compared to what we have today, not to mention it had no redundancy. The bullet proof network I mentioned has...

The Halloween effect is upon us - the elections from a historical perspective have little bearing other than the pre election rally which we already had and the 2nd year after election trend reversals. For those that don't know - the historical returns from Nov - April are very strong. Many of...

I know over the last year or so Fridays have been more volatile, in contrast to how well Friday's performed in the past it is on the minds of many traders. I think it is we have always been used to them being a good performer with lower volatility. From a historical perspective Monday is by far...

You can read a tape - and at best may at times see where the market is going in the next few seconds - if your goal is to do as much work as possible to try to make tiny gains by beating the 100's of millions spent by the big fish on super computer's to dominate the scalping arena than go for...

For a grand total of $18,486.88!! ____________________________________________________________________ Now link up about 50 of these trades in a year, while not taking any loses and you have hit a trading milestone (club 7 digits). One trade is just that - one trade. The ROR at years end is...

One of the key components of successful trading or investing, is the ability to trade around a CORE position ____________________________________________________________________________ Looks like swing trading 101 with position layering (trade management). This is where the big money is made...

If this of any help as far as having problems letting winners run. The things that help me with that is: #1. Having a profit target before entering the trade along with a stop. I use a bracket order. #2. Limit my trades to only a few each week. Over trading wipes out capital. #3. The less...

Been chart trading for years with Trade Station that also has market profile and customized automated program trading for auto order placement. TOS also has this.

Part of my trading plan is how to deal with trades I exited that are still 'objects in motion' . So my simple solution was to size my trade based on a percentage of the realized profits and scale back in.

I imagine the large draw to forex is the leverage. Trying to over compensate for a small trading account with leverage is the road to ruin. Its better to learn to trade without any leverage, unless the trader is into casin mode gambling. Contrary to the fx delusion that a $2,000 can enable you...

I think the most important things in TA is: Learn from the founders of classic TA. Condider using market profile to fine tune entries, goes well with classic TA. Market internals often offer clues that you will net get fom index price action alone. Try using week, month, quarter charts to find...

The entry signal has little to do with success - it is the risk and trade management that makes the difference. My swing losses are much smaller then my winners over time. Does that mean swing trading Fx works? I think it has a lot more to do with the trader. In the intraday period the banks...

To me Forex is just another market I swing trade - it trades and trends as good as anything else. The volume is not an issue since I base my entries on the final New York closing print. Sometimes I want to build a position but not want to take on the $ risk of a futures contract - so I use the...

I am a classic chartist - always have been. Most equate to to a skill, not so much art. With stock indexes the market internals are very important - The up/down volume, new highs/lows, advancing/declining, tick, VIX, put/call options, etc.. They offer strong clues as to if the day may be a...

Gotcha - Yea in a raging bull market if you follow the longer trend it is pretty darn linear. My bad.

When your DSL drops if you can try streaming a video that you have not watched before to make sure its not cached. That is a good test to determine if the DSL & ISP are the problem or IB. If you can't stream a video when IB drops just let your Telco know the times of your drops. If they don't...

Making some perfect equity curve from back testing is like dunking on a 4' high kids size basketball hoop. So you have a computer adding every 'what if' from the advantage of hindsight to give you what you want to see.

To make a long story short - you are better off simply shorting the ES or YM to profit from down turns. The VX contract is not very liquid - with its $50 tick and slippage you will eat a few hundred round-trip.

Hiding is not the best idea but if it helps you to cope with your emotions, go on __________________________________________________________________________ Nearly every novice loves being glued to the P/L window - they did not plan the trade before entering, instead they fixate on the P/L...