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Tortoise full time on live and paper day trade until you have the necessary capital and even more, to realize your dream.

Hope this helps. http://mam.econoday.com/byshoweventfull.asp?fid=471904&cust=mam&year=2016&lid=0&prev=/byweek.asp#top

The same Dude who said "The relatively longer plantation cycle, combined with restrictive trade practices, has in the past been the catalyst for the volatility in sugar prices." o_O

The commitmentsoftraders.org by Stephen E. Briese, will probably have your chart. I use Tradestation and they provide the COT for the 3 categories as an indicator. I can post a copy of a chart, but frankly that will not help. It is just another indicator. I compute and use the COT Index, as...

Codd, I share your analysis of the COT. The commercial Shorts are now huge. Contrary to the popular belief, sometimes it takes time for the rest of us to notice the end of a trend.

Sad..

Every year at the end of July, I think there is a good probability of making a profit by selling the Sugar #11. At least, that worked in the past. The only time that I would not follow stats and probabilities for non financial Futures, is when "fundamentals are surging" in the opposite way...

If you zoom on a support or resistance, you will see an area where a trading range with a lot of volume took place. A weekly S/R could be for example multiple 60 min trading ranges. I would never use S/R just as lines or (worse) trend-lines or moving averages, but (horizontal) area of S/R. I...

Tradestation margin requirement : NOTICE OF UK REFERENDUM (“Brexit”) Dear Customer: In anticipation of possible market disruptions, extreme volatility and/or unusually large moves in market prices related to the June 23 UK “Brexit” referendum, TradeStation will be increasing your margin...

My favorites: Winning the day trading game, Thomas L Busby How I trade for a living, Gary Smith Day trade futures online, Larry Williams Mastering the trade, John F Carter Naked Forex, Alex Nekritin and Walter Peters Trading catalysts, Robert I Webb Studies in tape reading, Richard D. Wyckoff

I do much better with European style options, like index options (SPX, NDX...). Great liquidity and no risk of being exercised, and here in the USA a much better tax treatment than short term stocks and stock options.

Thinking risks firsts, planning for the worst, managing risks, all risks.

My first very successful strategy was based on condors and short strangles.. Until I blow 60% of a my account in less than a day. Not too bad after 2 years of great profits, my account was almost back where it was 2 year before. I considered myself lucky. I learned that bad real time events...

There is indeed no calendar for pre announcements. The only way is to obtain real time corporate news (hopefully filtered). This task can be done with money.net or Xenith..

A Bloomberg terminal provide a large analysis platform (RT and historical news and data, macro and micro information + analysis) like Metastock Xenith (for "retail" people) and a neutral Broker solution (...The "universal trading system") like Metastock Real Time, Multicharts, Sterling, eSignal...

http://www.iqfeed.net/calculator/calculator.cfm?partnerid=4012 This is the IQfeed calculator. You will be able to know the exact price of what you need.

I have IB TWS, Tradestation, Multicharts with IB (live) or FXCM (for research and backtests), FXCM, on a Dell T7500 with 4 monitors. I never have any problem. I think the key is the 8 cores and 24GB of ram helps. I have another desktop for everything else, like bookkeeping, Internet with...

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing (A. Einstein) Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results (A.Einstein)