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What exactly are the "four avatars of the C&H formation?" Thanks...

I've heard it both ways. Better to master one trading vehicle. Better to spread your bets. Personally, I'm inclined to know one financial instrument inside-and-out before playing the multiple signals game. My question is this -- does anyone build a career around one instrument. Seems like...

this is a great post

Hear! Hear! Spectra seems like a class act to me, as well.

I've found the TS matrix to be, for lack of a better word, "gummy". Kinda slow, especially in a fast market. The inadequacies of TS's order interface (from my perspective, anyway), finally prompted me to switch to IB, in part because of the array of third party products available. I'm now...

Yes, but, see, that's "normal" market risk. Surprise news happens, and you're caught on the wrong side. I'm not talking about "normal" risk. I'm talking about the extraordinary, catastrophic risk that, alas, is not such a remote prospect in this day and age. This risk, it seems to me...

No doubt, this post will strike some as so much fear-mongering, akin to squirreling away dry goods in preparation for Y2K (remember Y2K?). Having said that... I can't escape the sneaking conviction that a terrorist attack on the financial markets is not just a possibility, but an...

ditto. l.a.

bulls-eye.

How late in the day today can one trade the December contract without running into marked inefficiencies? Can one reasonably trade the Z contract for the whole day and switch to March tomorrow? Thanks...

crystal meth there is no substitute

Oh, the naysayers are still around, they just got bored with the subject...:D

Sporadically up and down all morning...this happens a bit too often with TradeStation.... Any suggestions for more relable data providers?

Oh, I agree. Market Profile is elegant, aesthetically pleasing. But, the way I look at it, if I want to be aesthetically pleased, I'll go to an art museum (or something.) IMHO, whatever "edge" a retail trader is likely to gain from the application of MP to his/her trading approach is...

I mean, really. Don't get me wrong: I think it's interesting. And, certainly, the "it" methodology. But, having spent the better part of the past month monitoring the goings-on at a well-regarded market profile chatroom, I see these traders so enmeshed in deliberations over whether the...

anything better than blowing up your account is good

Which is it? I say the question is no question at all. During regular trading hours, cash indexes drive the futures markets, plain and simple. The broad market leads, the ES follows, end-of-story. Someone, please show me the error in my logic. Here's my reasoning: Now, I know many have...

Agreed, a nightmare. Well intentioned, no doubt. Promising, beyond dispute. But unless beta-testing floats your boat... Pass.

Perhaps you'd like to get the ball rolling by sharing some of your insights first...

you should be banned for not having a funny bone