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i didn't know retail traders had access to the full sized contract.. thought only emini and micros were traded now. thanks toucan

sorry... i was wrong and you are right about 10 micros make up 1 mini... however, when you bring up an emini, it shows the actual number of contracts offerred and trades. thanks toucan

Hmmmm... i've been trading 25+ years and although i don't trade ES, and i'm not sure, but i seem to remember something about breaking up the original sp500 futures contract into emini contracts so retail traders could trade them. 100 emini contracts make up 1 original contract. similar to 100...

i have an older trackball mouse with the ball on top and the buttons on the sides. have used it for 10+ years and i love it. it eliminated any soreness/carpal tunnel... not sure about the amazon one cheers toucan

The difficulty grows exponential in relation to the shrinking of the timeframe. virtusa..... yep.... i tried to automate my daytrading for a little over 10 years. i ended up breaking the code into 2 pieces... setup identification and entry/trade management. i manually identify setups and...

i've talked with a number of traders that seem to have been sucessfull in automating. in general it seems many of the longer term traders that have automated are consistently profitable for longer periods of time (just think of automation during a bull market), but the shorter the timeframe and...

i sent you a private message so we could take this offline toucan

LF I am a short term daytrader, so most of my trades are less than 10 min and the rest can take 1-2 hours to complete. Across all 5 futures, I see about 10-12 setups a day on a good day and less than half that on a bad day. I trade less than half of those setups. Everything that I say below...

LF Thanks for your analysis. This is the first time I have seen someone else do this type of analysis and is somewhat similar to what I do. Have you done any analysis that gives you the probability that a major swing will occur during a certain time period in the day and if so the length of...

hi mike... i missed the summary of your method.. which post was it in thanks toucan

Sorry, I only daytrade futures and was looking for others trading the same when discussing risk/reward Toucan

are you a daytrader trading futures???? thanks toucan

hi... that pdf portion is very interesting... do you have the complete pdf? thanks toucan

I use tick charts and they vary each day.

i have 4 monitors... i use a 43" 4K monitor to display 5 charts for the 5 futures that i daytrade plus 5 price ladders... a 24" for the trade manager and alerts. and another 2-24" monitors are just extra.

tony...one trade was 22:1. the trade was about 13 points and his other trade was about 18 points... so his initial stoploss was about 0.6 to 0.7 points toucan

i sent you a PM thanks toucan

hi steve I might be interested in discussing trading with you... what do you mean by "systematic trading"... thanks toucan

i remember the twins hiring zukerburg to write the code for facebook :) toucan

Yep... I believe everything I read on the internet... :)