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If you get it within the next month - write a book and be another Mark Douglas. Is this your journal or are you elsewhere? Enjoy reading how others are getting along. Make 'em pretty, Chris

Thanks, just kinda curious as to what others in the market are looking at.

Oh so true. Great post and worth of a repost! But the problem is 10yrs ago, heck probably 3 yrs ago I did not really believe that. In this business it seems rather difficult to learn from others mistakes. Now the chart has a 20 ema and volume. And volume only tells me when the bar is...

LOL:D :D Sounds like a Bill Engval "Here's your sign" moment. I thought that is what they are supposed to do? Just found that funny - I don't use them either for the same reasons you give - they affected my decisions.

Based on your previous reply, I take it this could be longer than an intraday trade? Might I inquire as to your main time frame traded? No longer have the march up so can't quite see exactly. I had a short from 115-250 (June) took a few and was stoped (trailing) on the rest and missed my...

Curiosity - You seem to have fairly decent entries and price will move your way a bit before retracing and taking you out. If you were to trade 2 contracts and take one off at say the same distance your stop is at 1 - 1.5 ticks, you would thus have a almost free trade; losses would be...

Rogue only if the trade was one day only. If he could enter a trade why would it be rogue? Had he made 141 Million he would have been a hero.

Pit? How long are you staying with March? What kind of time frame? Make 'em pretty, Chris

Been there done that so many times I can't remember them all. But I can remember yesterday and it was pretty much the same. Something that has helped me, is to learn to take the loss and get over it... I do not go forward thinking "I loss X, so I need XX to get it back" That loss has...

Once real money is on the line your whole perspective may change, especially if you will be needing the money in the future. If it is risk money - take your time and play small, and by all means enjoy it, or find something else. Make 'em pretty, Chris

Ok, if the Fed can buy the treasuries, they can only buy them at whatever the rate is frozen at then what? Inflation? Buy them back later at the same price?

Not sure if this is the right place but... Heres the scenario - Hillary is elected and she manages to freeze interest rates for 5 yrs as she said she would. What happens to the Fed? Do they become irrelevant for a bit? What happens to the bond market? Does it also become irrelevant...

Of course its hocus-pocus - its called Fibs and so many people use it and don't that it's not even funny!

Bingo!!

Again that depends, what time frame are you looking at? Days, weeks, months, hours, minutes? I use a 5 min chart and a 4181 constant volume chart with a 20 ema and only need to look at a couple of hours. I also look at the daily and like to see about a year, but mostly just to see the big...

Depends, do you want to trade fundamentaly or do you want to trade technically? But I believe most funny traders also pay attention to a chart at some point. A chart is about the only way you can see a trend. It can be defined by a number of different methods - Higher higs and higher lows...

That is the main reason I started trading it 10+ yrs ago. That is the cost of doing business. Unfortunately when the half ticks go into play I will probably leave it behind for good. The 10yr already is 1/2 32nds and has 4X - 6X the volume, the 5yr also has 2X the volume, so I cannot see...

I can't tell you what will work for you, but I can give you an idea of how it worked for me. I had the same question about how to form a strategy. First I determined what type of time frame I wanted to trade in. Then I read a number of books that had ideas and strategies in them i.e...

I will second that!! As I have neither cable nor satellite nor any other means to watch it on tv, it certainly is not worth 2 bucks.

Sorry, but is was not an implication that you were afraid, just the idea "you can loose your house trading futures" (I know you didn't say that either.) That is what I was told repeatedly many years ago and as much as I have lost over the years I still have my house. I wouldn't necesarily...