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I've only traded FX at ToS -- why is FXCM disabling stops/limit orders? That's a basic function of a trading platform!!! And the TF, yeah, quite sad.

+1 on monitoring this thread. I am considering the /6E as an alternative to the ES and have been watching it for a week or so now to get a feel for it. Good liquidity --- almost twice as much daily volume as the TF, which is amusing. :) Curious how others view it as well.

In fact, most oscillators do that too -- look @ RSI or Stoch during trend days and compare that to chop days. For a basic example, on chop days you might sell at RSI over 70 and buy at RSI under 30. Up and down, buy and sell. Over and over. Yet on trend days you might buy RSI over 70 and...

No worries -- we've all been there, trust me. :)

Before you get slammed by others here let me say your instinct is probably correct -- newbies want the "live calls" and to emulate someone else's work much like a green-yellow-red magic box like you see on infomercials.[1] With respect you're better off finding a few momentum stocks via a...

Set up a bracket order to buy at a limit and sell at your profit point. One order and you're done.

This is so sad it's funny. Which I guess means if I feel that way I should submit a proposal. Let me try out a few lines: "So three guys walk into a bar; they're from Bear, Lehman, and Merrill...." "Geithner and Bernanke sitting in a tree....f-u-n-d-i-n-g." "Helicopter Ben had to...

*chortle* I prefer volatility applied to the Magic Eight Ball Rounded Indicator(tm) myself. :)

I'll take the plunge -- the only honest and true answer to this question is: "Whatever YOU find most useful and important in YOUR trading style." Some traders like clean charts, some use zillions of indicators and studies. We need to use what works best for us and allows us to trade...

Now the "me too" calls will come out .... *sigh*

Nearly all analyst calls are bulls---t IMHO. I wonder if anyone's done an analysis of fading such calls. IIRC didn't GS raise their forecast on oil from 145 to 200 last summer like a week before it reversed hard? If I was to act on her 'advice' (which I'm not) I would interpret it as "we're...

To put a buy reco out the day before earnings is IMHO a clear fade recommendation to me and/or a pure gamble play -- regardless if it's Meredith or Cramer making the call. Not that I'm doing anything with GS either way, I'm just saying..... Edit: Cramer just said she'd been bullish too...

+1 on Rick. He knows his stuff and tea party antics aside, is the only "sane" and "competent" journo on CNBC, and the only person I care about what he might say. I still dont' watch CNBC much anymore, but I do take interest in Santelli if I see him. I think most of the rest either are...

[hijack] I'm surprised you got a fill on an SPX IC. I've had an order placed for 2 days and although it's passed through, sat above for a while, and come back through my price it has yet to get filled. I figured to get back into SPX ICs again after a while for some longer-term trades....I...

Is it me or is the EuroFX future just a smaller version of the EUR/USD (6E) future contract and only traded on Globex? Do you know how they compare in terms of trading activity and liquidity?

I don't --- it was something on CNBC that was posted to one of the non-financial blogs that I follow that piqued my curiosity. So I watched it, and was reminded of why I DON'T watch CNBC anymore!!

...this guy is just a smug, arrogant arse who probably got beat up on the playground every day for his lunch money and then ran home expecting mommy to go beat up the bullies for him. How CNBC can run him as 'serious' journo is beyond me; he comes across as a younger version of Larry Kudlow --...

That's what I figured --- probably has a countdown timer or some set of lights like they do during Congressional hearings.

Is it me or is Bloomberg TV notoriously-rude about interrupting people mid-sentence to get to a commercial break? In fact, they seem to even cut off their anchors to go to a break......so either they're very disciplined or else it's some computer that automatically cuts away at a certain...

Have a catastrophic stop set on all your trades beyond the 'noise' of the market. 5 or 10 points on the ES perhaps.....something that can safely avoid the market 'noise' yet will ensure your trade can get closed in a crisis such as a MCI at the desk or even if your computer crashes and the...