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Usually around 5-10 per day.

I also have greatly simplified my charts so they are relatively clean and easy to follow. See below

At the moment my stats are nothing to write home about. However, I finally got my method down pat and working the way I wanted it to. For June Avg win-83, avg loss-109. Win rate-.76. But I have come from a deficit of 1814 to a deficit of 660 today. Total trades 71.I only do day trades and I...

I have been trading futures for 20 yrs. I have spent the last 8 years using Tradestation, having started with Supercharts. I have spent thousand of hours programming easy language studies and seeing how they perform. I'm finally at the point I can consistently pay back the money I have spent on...

I'm over in Ft. Myers area. Anyone Else???

It is important to set your stops based on the volatility of the market your following in the time frame that you are using. What I've done is set my alerts to trigger a potential trade only if the volatility at the time it occurs is less than what I'm willing to risk. That way I have some...

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That is an excellent post. It should be printed out and read over and over again. Looking back on my own trading journey, you hit the nail on the head. Thanks for a great post!

Xspurt wasn't kidding about the 20,000 hrs, either

I find that tick charts work very well for intraday trading. It allows you to take into account how active the market is. As the volume of trading goes up you can increase the number of ticks for each bar. It just seems that they work much better, at least for the futures markets

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A couple of other things to try with the ADX/DMI . You can try a shorter value for the ADX and a somewhat longer value for the DMI. Also, I've found that using tick charts rather than time based charts work pretty well, at least in the futures markets