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"moral suasion"? what? "6.5% unemployment rate should NOT be considered as an automatic trigger [to end or reduce QE] but rather as a threshold to reconsider policy.."

thank u ! did not know it was possible. Looks like it s holding well for now

1-5-67 on S&P500 cash, 1-5-57 roughly on sep futures

a bit of a tension day today..

I bet no financial (so called-) "journalist".. has even read the FED statement before writing its news on QE ending "soon"...

swing trading. Stick with what works for you, I agree. In day trading you need the strength to change mind rapidly once you ve entered a wrong position (if you thought it is going to be a down day on the daily and you get long on the 1H chart but then can t cut your loss depsite your inital...

Who "can find Willy"?.. Release Date: June 19, 2013 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Labor market conditions have shown further improvement in recent months...

needs to hold intraday for rebound this week.. Who read ANY sign of tightening in FED's statement??? Am i the only one not to see any in it???

I AGREE ON THE FACT THAT UNDERCAPITALIZATION AND RESULTING OVERLEVERAGE ARE THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS FACED BY SMALL TRADERS... 30K$/€ IS ENOUGH I BELIEVE, IF YOU ARE NOT LOOKING TO MAKE 6 FIGURES THE FIRST YEAR YOU GO LIVE (LoL)

Sorry.. but did not read the part that says that 90% of traders DO use stops... =>> Q.E.D. !... "D'oh" (Homer Simpson..)

yes of course. you need to take into account the "volatility" of the time frame of the asset you are trading, knowing that that volatility is not constant (fast, slow market). if you place it too tight and enter without the needed precision you will be taken out mathematically.. but if one...

That s impressive! how long did it get you? what is that platform?

pure scalper then? you use tick and 1min graph max? i do some scalping but usually prefer day trades where i aim to make at least 10 pips. i try to limit to 10x

if you have tight stops that s fine. the real parameter is the stop, not the leverage, but the higher the leverage, the tighter the stop.. you need more experience then, ie more patience to enter right point and discipline to take losses early

you do not need 500,000 to trade futures... but you certianly should never use more than 3/10x leverage (comes from the high school maths..). French index futures are worth "only" 37000€.. so 5k for 1 lot is good enough

YUP. because they don t use stops. and they did not check the high school maths, which the HFT did...

BlueTurtle if you don t use stops you expose your self to massive losses once your strategy, whatever it is, doesnt work anymore. for a defined stop in % and a defined win rate ratio you can calculate your expectancy. it is that simple. high school maths. that you won not using them does not...

ok previous post. well actually the stop should have been just below prev local low. these kind of crashes son t happen very often and of course algos are after your stops ! so you need to think about it BEFORE getting into a position so that can place a stop that has meaning

on what page?

ABOSLUTELY FALSE !!... USING STOP LOSSES IS THE ***ESSENCE*** OF TRADING SINCE IT IS A STATISTICAL GAME...