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Vulture, Excellent posts! (You too, Profit). My only question is this: If I trade into the more major trend against one of the minor-trend pullbacks away from the major trend, and I pick up +2 ES points here and there, would you consider this scalping or daytrading? aphie

Let PAC-MAN explain it:

Where can I find an economic calender that shows the dates of when important macro-economic data is to be released? I'm sure this would help when trading e-minis as well. aphie

I'm willing to stick to the subject. Ok, here are some questions: 1) What is the best system for scalping a point here and there (including stop-loss parameters, etc) 2) Does anyone have a unique style they care to share about how they scalp? aphie

Puffy, That totally negates the point of having a stop. aphie

Puffy, No need to be mean -- we're all just human here. aphie

Pabst, LOL. I'll have to try and get a rat-infested apartment to trade out of! aphie

Puffy, No, because that would mean I'd be skipping the "borrow money from my family and friends phase." aphie

I have a new prediction for tomorrow: The markets will go up or down, but will not close at 0% unchanged. I'm pretty sure about this one. :D aphie

Let's pretend that there were no commissions -- there were no costs to trade and the only loss or gain was from each trade. Let us also assume that there is no longer a spread (there is still a spread so to speak, but each of your trades gets credited for the spread so the net effect is that...

I think he is merely suggesting that you should be in it to win -- as in, not trading to lose.

Huios, If you get the time, please PM me or e-mail. Thank you. aphie

Well, that is a good point about systems becoming hard to use during real-time trading. I think a trader goes through an evolution of sorts where it goes: 1) Mechanical Phase The trader develops a system, learns to control his or her emotions and will generally break-even or lose during...

I am the one talking about methods and how to trade -- you're the one making stupid one word responses to people's posts. So, again, who is immature here? aphie

What you need is to see a good proctologist to get that head out of your a$$. aphie

egotraiter, First of all, it is "ROFL" -- as in "rolling on the floor laughing." Secondly, what's so funny? aphie

I must admit, I don't like the taste of rubber in my mouth, but I got it today. Although I had a good trading day on paper, I shouldn't have assumed that the people shorting last night were crazy -- since they just made a 75% return on their investment. As for trading in the first 30 minutes...

AAA, 10 consecutive losses? The best odds of that happening are the same as 10 consecutive wins -- and 50/50 odds would correspond to a .097% probability that a 50/50 occurance would happen 10 consecutive times in a row. I guess if you were to trade 1,000 times in a year, that raises the...

I took the time to look over a lot of your trades and a lot of them could have been profitable had you just waited a little longer (still keeping a max 5 ES stop). Also, when you trade, do you watch the longer term MA trends? You made some buys against some pretty strong downtrends...

I will have to be conservative at first and only trade signals that allow me to pick up a point here or there. I won't be able to do any position scaling until I get my account to a point where I can trade more than one contract at a time. I'll be happy with +1 ES point a day starting out...