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I seriously must be retarded... here we go again. Can't figure out how to attach image. Sorry guys, will have to look at the word file... I wish I didn't bank profits so fast. The bar wasn't that strong and the potential for the downmove was huge. O well, you live, you learn.

Trendline break with potential to go back into the triangle and see the lower trendline... This is what I saw...

Hehe. I was there too, but I'm out now... don't feel so sure on this one. Short hoping for downmove... short since 2218.5. Looks like we might see lower trendline touch... Out on first up bar on 1000 CV chart. Something tells me I should have held on longer...

We talked about live calls right? Shorted hoping for a fade during market open. Got stopped out, in again. Tight stop at breakeven... Update... out for small profit. Saw the trendline touch and on the smaller time frame charts some strength. EDIT: long again on the downtrendline break...

I am not really experienced with data providers/software... until very recently all I did was swing trade equities. So, I can't really answer your question. To sim trade, Ninjatrader is completely free, however.

This is to help some traders that might be having trouble with data. Whatever realtime data provider you have, you can use opentick.com (if your charting software suppports it) to download historical data and then you can merge it with incoming real time data. The result is free platform...

I don't trade off the weekly charts. I was just talking about average trade duration. Or am I misunderstanding your post? If market conditions are right I end up with 3-10 setups a week. This is 30 a month/360 a year. So I would only need about 2 years worth of data it appears. I am not...

I agree, but just to make something clear... before you can backtest anything even by hand (or front test) you need to know exactly what your setups are and in what circumstances you take them. Most beginners can't do this. It takes lots of observation before strict rules can be defined. Just my...

This is just a general observation... I'll let Anek do what he does best, but all of your morning plays to an extent I believe you got lucky. Today was a very trendy day. Many of your plays you didn't wait for confirmation and just took first hit of support/resistance. This provides you a good...

I have two definitions of trend I wish to test to see if trend qualifiers increase accuracy and two different types of setups that I will use (same setups for each trend criteria). I also wish to incorporate 3 different money management strategies to see what would have performed better. all...

A, of course. Let's keep this thread rolling. There's always haters from all sorts of camps that spring up...

Have not had much time recently to start but have done an analysis of my equities live trades from 9/4 to present (except for some open positions). I have altered my trading style greatly since september seeing as how I no longer trade based on set price targets (even if at...

I know how to get the playback feature working and trade any given day. However, I can't get multiple days to show up at once and that presents a bit of a problem. Has anyone been able to sim trade on playback using multiple days worth of data?

Thank you, I guess its back to trading then... don't have anywhere near enough screentime to determine what works for me best and what doesn't. If someone cares to share their opinion on this, please do so. I know its a very *personal* choice, but I am still interested.

Welcome back Anek. I know that you don't use time bars because they have too many wide range bars, but... could the wide range bars v narrow range bars be an edge to ones analysis? Reason that I ask is because I am still new to volume bars and have been trying it out and the minute data...

Bumping this thread once more for a last question. Someone told me that Ninjatrader for basic functionality including chart orders is free (to go live, not just on sim). Has anyone pulled this off with ib?

Lol right... it's not to control inflation or any silly thing like that.

I don't like posting in threads when I'm not directly on topic. Sort of common curtesy i'd expect others to have I guess. Especially in useful threads so as not to sidetrack. I will start from the beginning. It's not the work that is daunting, I just like to know before I begin if someone...

Been reading for a few pages here and this journal seems intriguing... would like to know something as sometimes I have free time to waste (or spend productively if I get lucky). Is it worth it backtracking to page 1 and reading the journal? I notice there are a lot of live calls here that...

Ok ... you really need to get off of the cloud. Trading is not easy. Daytrading is not easy. Please remove easy money from your vocab. You will lose money from this attiutde. Breakouts work until they don't. Everything is easy in hindsight. Your perceptions are waaaay off right now. Here's...