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"My daddy blew my whole college fund trying to trade and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"

Huios- what are you using as a filter to keep you out of the chop? thanks, JPB

I can picture it now: "But I only sell drugs to support my trading habit..."

That is honestly the first time in my years of reading message boards that I have actually laughed out loud sitting in a room by myself. Thanks, Sub. -JPB

Someone told me the key to being a decent golfer is to play your average shot. For example, if you're 200 yards out, over water to a small green, and you could hit that shot one out of ten times, but you could lay up and pitch it on in two 80% of the time, take the lay up. Over the long haul...

Got me for 3 ES points. Had a OCA limit order to take profits and a stop loss. Traded through my profit target, reversed, and traded through my stop loss by 1.25 points before it finally triggered.

In my "psuedo premium" I described above I have it negative (-0.1 down to -3) until after 10:00. Do you see any disadvantage to using the e-mini as I described? I'm actually hoping to use it to stop me from jumping in on moves just to see them tick back against me 2 points before heading...

Gotrader- Thanks for the best explanation I've heard. One question for you (or anyone else)- I can't seem to get PREM from my quote provider (if anyone knows how to get it in Nextrend let me know). I'm going to try using the ES mini contract minus the SPX (ESP2'CM-SPX.X) to give similar...

Looks like the tradestation ad is causing my Explorer5.0 to go back to the forums page immediately (again). -JPB

I don't think your ratio is necessarily bad if it is consistent and works for you. You are paying just over 50% commissions. I think that's probably what some prop guys average. Your hold time looks to be about 30 seconds to 2 minutes most of the time (pretty much scalping). If you fine tune...

I see 2 contracts traded at 1215 and 40 or 50 at 1210. On the squawk box they were arguing over the closing prices and I heard someone say they had a high in the mini's of 1192. What did your data show for a high? Do they ever break e-mini trades? That 50 point spike at 4:09 is the most...

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Jboydston- I don't see a single long trade in two uptrending days (after 10:00 on Friday). I had the same problem on Friday the 7th and Wednesday the 12th, but I'm finally getting it through my thick skull not to fight the trend. Learning to trade in a bear market sometimes makes it hard to...

Depending on time of day, it's usually a couple hundred contracts deep. I wouldn't count yourself filled unless it prints a tick under your limit price. -J

Hey Bung- I graduated from Arizona State and still live here. I'd have to agree with you. Do you live here or just visit to harass our women? -JPB

Bronks- I could just cut and paste this entry into my own journal for today. I would just have to add overtraded, which I tend to do when I am down for the day. 15/21 of my trades were short today. I shot 24% ( I was at 63% ave. the rest of the week). I got personal and I got beat silly...

Congratulations if you are, just hit 1115 in afterhours. -JPB

Seanote, I have been more than impressed and inspired by your trading over the last few months, but this takes it all. If you shorted on Monday(?) you never had the trade against you for more than 1.5 points (even so, $3k) and have held 3/4 of it for 20 points (as of now) and I suspect you got...

Bronks- You need to log onto your account on the IB website and change the number of contracts to trade there. It might take a day to take affect. -JPB

mccoyml- The site uses scripting for all of the buttons. Make sure you have it turned on in your browser settings. -johnny