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Dizzyspell and Hardcash, Thanks for making my point. The questions were somewhat rhetorical. They represent some of the "thinking" steps that most traders go through while on the journey to the end game of actually trading. They're the type of mind games we play on ourselves whether we...

Dizzyspell, Not to chase this rabbit too far since it's H's thread but the expose' might help shed new light for the journey. So some questions for you about the use of price as the only indicator. Do you watch a chart or quotes? If chart; then what timeframe? Maybe just numbers in time &...

Huios, I'm opening an account with IB and noticed they don't have a backup call desk. Also noticed they've had some problems back in July with link to Globex. Large volumes clogged the pipes and orders got stuck for many minutes causing either lots of pain or gain depending on which way your...

I asked about the subscription service to Livecharts and whether it included the extended trading session (since the free livecharts seemed to cut off early and didn't show after hour bars when clicking the 24-hour option). They replied that they were working on a problem with CME data and...

Gee - The banner at the top of this thread shows the TradeStation ad but maybe that's too obvious for a guess? I know that Futuresource has some nice ET hour charting albeit delayed (unless you subscribe). Livecharts via Lycos used to have ET charting and claims they're working on...

I've searched back through the posts and can't find where someone had previously mentioned a rumor of IB's solvency? I don't recall a source being mentioned but would like to know who said what (any article references?) since I'm considering changing over to IB. Thought it was one of the top...

Greed is a particular form of fear. It represents the fear of there not being enough and of want. No matter what names and labels we give to the emotional forms of fear the results to trading are the same - distortions of judgement. When you look upon and trade the market action as it...

Huios, Once you get the mechanics laid out to your satisfaction and you believe in your heart and soul it is a viable trading plan that will over the long run create consistent profits, then only one thing stands in the way of you being the trader you wish to be and I know you know the answer...

Scaling is an interesting subject. One that includes a host of issues that at first glance aren't obvious. Let's say you have the 3 unit case as in the Ross example. You exit one unit early to cover that trades costs per se. Then you target a higher likely profit exit. Then you let the...

qwiktrade Would you mind explaining how you're trading from a truck stop? Do you have some sort of wireless setup or are you using some sort of dial up connection available there? I'd like to have a remote access wireless capability but haven't found anything suitable - yet. Sorry for the...

m c a98 made my point better than I did. My reference to Flawless execution wasn't the best way to put it. Using your own terminology about consistency is what's at issue here. How can you be consistent if you haven't settled on an approach? How can you know expectancy of that approach if it...

Huios - Unless the trades you ran the numbers on were all taken with the same entry and exit rules - ie. consistent - then I would have to ask what do you believe the resulting expectancy is actually telling you? Another way of saying it would be to ask what level of confidence would you have...

Just catching up on the thread. Had a question on the charting software. What's the logic used to color the candles? Blue is up, Red is down, and Black is transition but what conditions flip the switch? Don't know if it's proprietary to AG. Have a good trade day! :)