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ES Do you have a system that you use or is a discretionary? The issue is that if you have system, brokerage firms will promote for you you simply get registered with the NFA and then only question they ask is your track record On the other had... if you are a discretionary trader...

apologies, I thought you meant potiential for a "wider range" day... as for what you are asking... in theory this seems near impossible. ranges can quickly expand if stops get run

oded, Intrigued by your offer... how is a developer compensated and what if they want to charge per contract traded? Is this possible? can you provide references of system developers who participate with you?

Ripley Try using a 60 minute volume oscillator, mine is on TS8 set it to a very fast speed... ie 1 and 2 then watch the ES in the premarket... more importantly watch the premarket the hour before you open. you are looking for spikes... I prefer over 750 ticks... but you can choose...

if your system uses standard indicators, try trading futures or even forex... forex gives you up to 400-1 leverage. But on a more realistic note... 250 trades a day :eek: Even with the money you make trading... would you ever have the lifestyle to to match it? in my opinion nothing...

Most excellent post, Agree 100% I'll take 20 losses that get smaller and smaller but when the winners come along, you have to be in prime position to take advantage. In this day and age... screw your system the hedge funds, and other program traders will eat it alive... you have to...

thanks candletrader... I understand but in my experience... one could lay out the holy grail right here, right now and chances are most would never get it. my 2 cents worth... you and I have already mentioned the 'holy grail' to 'making it'

candletrader, when you say sensibly and consistently... where did you come from? 120K drawdown doing what type stuff... to where are you now? how do you trade them sensibly now?

Thanks all, for the dialogue. Interesting to hear the perspective, I agree with them but sometimes you get these people on ET who act like they know what they are talking about and so you it perks up your curiosity. That being that stks were much easier to make money on than futures...

TrendFader, this took some time to figure out as I like quick feedback from a trade, within a half hour if possible. But I can't trade 20 times a day either. So my solution, 2 methods. 1 trades 150 minute chart, good for 3 bars a day and will hold overnight. This is a trend based The...

Never mind Michael I understand your point. I trade futures due to the leverage, quick feed back, and near constant liquidity. Is trading stocks easier than this and why?

Michael, I would not consider for once moving over to equities, too much individual research. However at the same time why do some think stocks are easier to trade than futures or vice versa. As for the second part of your post, I don't understand what that means. please clarify thanks

I wanted to get a feel for what type of trading is done and why. I have personally traded idex futures since 97 and have made money since 99 on. I read a thread earlier where some people stated that they traded futures and it was a trial by fire as now the stocks that they trade is like a...

What happened yesterday? and then today Did we catch bin laden? I must have missed the news! :confused:

what IF... we close the gap and tommorrow we close the gap from 5/18 that is what i see happening here. What about the rest of you? The theory that the bombings will cause less people to travel hence the drop in crude... well you have to be out of your mind to take that to the bank.

Nice call... so far... As long as hurricane season blends into an early winter... your call could be the call of the year! If I were a betting man... I would take that bet. However, oil could turn out to be a bubble in and of itself in which case we have the spare parts to make this...

from what I gather 1205 is the price on the S&P cash index. Not the futures... but anyone in the know, please feel free to clarify.

I think he meant 1205 for today, the 5th. Tommorrow brings another day of psychosis to deal with. Now that the hurricane has caused evacuations of all Gulf oil rigs... oil should easily climb back over 60... Then it gets interesting, again.