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The reason the markets are forever becoming more difficult to trade is EFFICIENCY. The more efficient the market becomes, the more difficult it will be trade. OldTrader, if you’ve been around for so long, you should know that a high percentage of traders throughout the 70s and 80s made their...

I'm selling these 4 monitors because I finally moved to LCDs. The monitors are all in great working condition. (My refresh rate is low so you can see the line in the pictures) Two of the monitors are 19 inch KDS, one is a 19 inch Dell, and the other is a 17 inch IBM. I don't want to ship the...

Read Mark Fisher's book, The Logical Trader.

Corn's been fun to trade over the last couple of weeks.

The prices I listed were for commodity futures, including pit-traded futures less the CQG fee. They are not the prices I pay to trade index futures, and they are not from IB. I really only listed them to show that the .50 per-roundturn is only the CQG fee and it's charged on top of your broker...

I use ProactiveFutures (just started with them). To give you a complete break down: commissions - 2.18 NFA - 0.04 Clearing - 0.10 Exchange - 3.00 CQG - 0.50 Total - 5.82 Like I said, that's going to E-CBOT. I think I said CBOT's pit-traded but that's not correct. CQG doesn't...

CQG is just a trading interface. I use CQG to place trades at a rate of .50 per round turn. I still have to pay 2.85 in broker commissions and 3.00 in exchange fees (CBOT pit traded contracts).

Depends on what market you're trading. When I'm trading YM futures, I can't force my self to stay in the market all day. The lack of trend in the index futures makes it difficult to ride a position all day. However, when I'm trading agricultural futures, I can easily stay in a position...

Accountant, I do not post on this board often, but, because I myself am an accountant (or at least a non-practicing CPA), I feel it necessary to interject in order to point out a major flaw in your system. Why are you sticking with Scottrade?! It would take you a couple of hours (or less)...

Trade futures. Here you go: http://www.xpresstrade.com/index.html No account/deposit minimums! Just deposit your 1000 bucks and you'll be ready to go. You'll be able to trade contracts like corn, wheat, a large number of SSFs, and tons of mini contracts. Of course, you'll lose all of...

Give AAPL some more time. Trust me, there are millions of people who missed this stock and they are all waiting for it to come down a bit so they can jump on board. Cramer is shouting at the top of his lungs to buy AAPL as it moves down, and he's not the only one thinking along those lines...

I know that Assent traders use the Hammer software for order entry, quotes, ect... But, what do Assent traders use for charts? Does Assent even offer good charting software? Anyone know?

The problem with this deal is the high profit split. New traders will have a hard time making it even when they're able to keep all their profit, but by only keeping 50% of the profits, their dead in the water. New and undercapitalized traders should try and put up a little more money and work...

I will never trade an abnormal spike in my charts again.

balda, What does esignal say the EMA is at today (Jun 20,2003)?

richtrader, I have also calculated the EMA with the formula that you use and it is the same. I think now I'm going to look at my charting software to see if it is correct. Thanks.

Okay here is a simple spreadsheet with prices and a 200 EMA. It shows the current 200 day EMA price as 25.23 but my charting software shows the current 200 day EMA price at 24.23. A one dollar difference. Can you tell me what I doing wrong here?

Yes, I have 3 years of data in my current spreadsheets. I start off the data with a 200 day SMA. All of my other EMA's work fine but not the 200 day EMA. It is off by more than dollar. I am not sure if there is a different formula I can use for 200 day EMA or not.

Does anyone know the formula to calculate a 200 day EMA in an Excel spreadsheet? I know the formula for an exponential moving average is: X = (K x (C - P)) + P X = Current EMA C = Current Price P = Previous period's EMA* K = Smoothing constant (*A SMA is used for first period's...

If people want to say that it is answer to prayer what do you care? You have your opinion, they have their opinion. Get Over IT!!!:eek: