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Last night was the 1st time I've really messed around with any Strategy trading and the main problem I'm running into is getting the stoploss and profit target to work on Ninjatrader. Have any of you guys programmed much on there? I attached a file of the simulated return for the previous...

My #1 rule is to accept that I'm going to be wrong 20 to 30% of the time and to get out with as small of a loss as possible. And some days the market will just seem to be against you even if you're following your strategies that normally work. I like having a hard loss of the day set in...

And also got to love that AIG needs its own column $40 Billion? Do they have to constantly shovel billions and billions of dollars at them to keep them in 40 Bill range or is that money just on AIG's books? I'll admit that total under the secondary does look just a little ominous. 600...

I'm thinking the 1st one probably hit close to the middle band and bounced back down The 3rd one could maybe move up a little more I'm not really sure on the 2nd. It's looking weak so i wouldnt be surprised if it topped out there But these are more guesses than anything and these...

The thing that annoys me most about Cramer is that he knows the market and how it works probably better than any of us on this site. I can handle some of the other CNBC people pumping up the market since they're just reading a teleprompter and dont know any better....Cramer knows he's...

I've ended up giving a decent bit back the past couple of months but I made a damn good return riding up FAZ puts from end of March until June or so they seem to go down a whole hell of a lot faster and easier than they go up

Have you had success buying and holding the 3x ETFs before? All I've heard is horror stories from people who did anything but daytrade them.

Have you looked at the credit spreads on futures options any? I guess this would be more direction focused than you're wanting but this is a pretty interesting article on them. The only catch is that they're hella pricey and out of my buying range at the moment but they look interesting...

I have a trial for the ninja trader platform with Mirus futures. You can trade all around the clock and It doesn't expire so that's a plus.

After we had that huge drop last year the highest we were able to bounce was around 1045. That's been my top. I just had no idea we would get up here this fast. I thought itd be later this year/early next year after we had another dip. But yeah if we actually manage to close above 1050 or...

China will have the final word on when the Dollar dies and they seem more than willing to suck it for all for they can at the moment. I think the Fed will be able to keep it propped up at about this same area for the next year or 2 then I'm not really sure what'll happen. I just dont see...

Just spend a couple months playing around on a paper account. I got a free ninjatrader trial from Mirus that's good until i decide to fund an account. It's not exactly like real life but I'm trying to follow what rules I'd have to out in the real world with respect to lot sizes and stops to...

I love looking at the Bollinger Bands on the SPY 1 min chart intraday also with VWAP, pivot points and other support/resistance levels while i'm trading ES and even YM as some nice scalping entries. Seems like the entire market follows the trend on the SPY They also work fairly well on...

this is the best free realtime site I know about but it mostly just has the NYSE stocks and ETFs www.freestockcharts.com And the simulator for Ninjatrader does have free realtime charts and quotes even without a funded account. I'm not entirely sure how long the demo lasts though. Other...

Have any of you guys had success kind of hedging your bets by going long in either ES or YM and shorting the other and having a stop on both assuming one will stop out and the other will run? it worked in papertrading but i only attempted it 2 days. during the day i really only have a...

Damn you guys are raining on my sunny day. I'm 5 months into this little journey and i feel like it's finally starting to come together a little bit. I'm just glad I'm a cheap bastard and didn't go full speed ahead with my entire savings account. I'm down somewhere in the neighborhood of $400...

I like the bollinger bands in the 1min. time frame to get a better idea of what price i want to enter, the MACD histogram and RSIwilder on the 15 min. chart to get a wider view of direction, and of course simple resistance and support levels in anything from the 1 min. to 1 hour timeframes.

I'd have to really agree with the guy who said to use longer timeframes. I'm still a total newb but just switching from a 1 min. to 15 min. chart made a world of difference. Cuts out alot of the fake signals. And you dont get extra credit for timing a reversal of direction perfectly...