Search results

you need to lend me your magic 8 ball! i had a good start to the day but gave profits back trying to short a friggin one way market like an idiot, lol. Longs have it made!

I must admit, I keep thinking we are due a drop, but im only a learner. I've recently been lurking in the ES journal on this site to see what the real traders are doing, and most of them seem to be expecting this thing to just keep on rallying, So maybe the people expecting a retracement are...

OK. Done for the day. Dont wanna overtrade - 5 trades made today which is better than recent days for me. Total points today = +4.75 we'll call it +$175 (usual $5 per trade and add in another small random charge) so far this week: mon - +$180 Tue - +$150 Wed - $+175 3 winning...

For any 'real' ES traders who happen to be viewing my journal: would you say the current ES trading evironment is harder or easier than in general? Are my results so far very typical of a 'learner'? I want an idea of whether im doing good, bad, very bad etc. Its not enough for me to...

out here at 1025.25 for +2.75 good first trade of the day to add to my little journal later:) try not to lose it all now

short 1028 - sounds like the trade is destined to fail judging from everyones bullishness but i have to take the signals whilst i attempt to learn to trade the ES i guess. 2.5 point stop

buy at open today ? We haven't had a good up day in 2 days now. They've also managed to push the market up lots in the overnight session from the lows.

I missed the last few hours of trading today as i had some technical issues, but im up and running again, and looking at the charts, i actually would have had 2 more very good trades.....Not sure if this pleases me or annoys me, lol. Probably pleases me as it gives me confidence. Lets see what...

winning day again. Way too many trades again. I ignored a nice long setup which wuold have made it a great day. Thought it was up too much to carry on flying up. More fool me. Total +220 say $50 in commissions. say $20 for the sake of it/random costs: $+150 So far this week mon -...

how would one know that? thx

now that was beautiful! Do you only go long aswell? Im new and learning (i have a journal). Is it not worth going short in the ES? small chance of working out compared to long trades?

Interesting. I thought the same thing. I read various threads and people who sound like me (i.e amateurs) are saying 'get long here - markets are manipulated to keep going up' and lo-and-behold they keep getting it right lol. Been reading these sorts of posts for a few months now...

hehe. I trade with other demo traders (and real ones) in a skype room, and the demo traders are getting killed each day, so you must have a smart goldfish! this is from the ninjasite regarding demo software: "The Ninja Trader fill engine considers time bid/ask volume, and last trade volume...

ok day. Feel a little unlucky as im using bigger stops today which has been suggested to me a few times, although as luck would have it, they worked against me today. Every winning trade i made never went more than 2 ticks against me, and the main loser i took a 4 point hit on would usually...

lol

thanks. So whats the a/c opening process like then out of interest? Is it like a job interview or something? why do i need to speak to them? is it a long process? I demo traded a stock trading platform today. Done really well. Seemed that because there are so many stocks to choose from...

Bad one again. Had a short signal in globex - it was showing me a few points profit that i didn't take. I thought id slightly increase my stops today, and just my luck, the day turned out to be one way up trend stopping me out for 3.5 points. People tell me to never short the ES market as...

Interesting. Dont really know much about 'prop firms'. It seems to be quite an american thing - Im in Europe. Still I imagine they would take people from all around the world (not that I could do it until i saved up some money for a while but still) Prop firms lend you enough money to be...

thanks for the advice. Something to think about. After the intial month or so, I will go over my numbers and likely change things around a little. Polite advice such as yours is always welcome from anyone.

The symbol for the S&P emini futures contract