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One of the things I've learned since starting this journal is the fallacy of starting with 1 contract. Since I need x dollars to get by each month, anything less than that means I have to borrow more money to get by. For several months I was doing the 1-2 contract trades in hopes of building...

I'm not the expert, just trying to copy one. From what I've seen in my trading I usually have only a few sec to get the best shot at making money. A couple of days ago I saw a short at 1439.00. I swinged around and forgot I didn't have my DOM display up. I one-clicked starting it and did a sell...

It's 6 sec. updates for whatever data has arrived. If there is no data, you see blank areas in the charts. Takes awhile to get used to it. If I had some money I'd buy a charting package and play with the tick updates. I'm sure it could do the same thing.

I got it on a burned cd from the pro. It's a esignal plugin so you can probably get it by contacting esignal and getting a download. If you have a charting package you won't be impressed.

I'm trading fulltime again starting today. I did some papertrading last week to get back in the swing of working during the day. It looks like market conditions are more favorable than they were in November. I'll start posting with some regularity again and see if I can finally "get my act...

If you have good credit it's pretty easy to score decent money. I got 30k @ 0% for 12 months from Discover this month with a 20k/year income. Check your fico score at myfico.com.

I'm still around. I haven't traded much since Nov. My brother-in-law was re-doing the roof of his barn and fell off. Fell through a tree next to the barn and broke some ribs. I've had to help with the farm in all my "free" time while he was healing. I traded a few days last month and made about...

I noticed today the ES Dom wasn't updating properly. It had a huge lag (30 sec. - 50 sec.). I could place orders on the ladder and they'd execute properly, but the Dom was a mess. I wasn't too thrilled to see the prices bounce through my stops only to find out that the Dom was way behind the market.

Just an update. I'm back to struggling. Health problems with a family member had me take my mind off trading. Can't get it together. The method I'm using for trading has been inconsistent this month. On days I've tried to trade, I've lost. Then backed off and papertraded the next day and it...

Trading 11/14/2006 Got greedy and got smacked. The morming started off easy. I shorted one ES on the first down move because I've seen the gap open followed by that being the high/low many times before. Made a couple of points on it and took a profit before it got back to yesterday's close...

Checked CNBC. Buy stops above yesterday's high were triggered and off it went to new year highs (which brought in others). I took a hit as well. Got a little greedy for the day. Love how the market humbles you just when you need it.

Trading 11/13/06 I've been reading a book called "Unleashing the Warrior Within" to try and firm up my mental game. One thing he focuses on is zeroing in on a goal (target) and doing whatever it takes to hit the target (goal). I realized I was just building my confidence the last few months...

Only tried a couple of single lot trades. Between the election and Friday's low volatility, I decided to stay out. Ended up losing about $50 due to stupidity for the week. Was up 3 1/2 points on Wed. and ignored my exit signal because I wanted at least 4 ponts. Ended getting out at B/E due to...

I had disconnect problems with Win98. Since I bought a new XP based system, everythings been stable as a rock.

If you're referring to the 5 deep numbers on the DOM then what you're seeing is index arbitrage. Of course you know the 5 deep only shows limit orders. When a index arb program kicks off they put in a large number of limit orders away from value in case they trigger stops to make some extra...

Senate outcome won't be firm for at least a week. Markets don't like uncertainty. I don't expect to end in the green today.

Update for last week Mon. +212.92 (statement posted) Tues. & Wed. (no trades) Thurs. +6.46 Fri. +332.30 (statement attached) Total for the week +551.68 (best since I started to trade again in August) Beginning with 10/31 the market changed. Before then I could pretty easily see which...

October statement page 3 of 3 Summary: 21 Round turns 19 profitable for a win % of 90% Total winning trades +1.475.00 (ave. win +77.63) Total losing trades -62.50 (ave. loss -31.25) Profit factor 23 Net profit including commissions +1,285.66 Ave. net profit per-contract +61.22 % of...

October statement page 2 of 3

October statement page 1 of 3