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Live to trade another day, April 2. Happy April 1 everyone. Who the hell would go short 100 contracts ES on a break out of NQ and ES at a new high? ;) Heck I would not go big either way for that matter. Just stay the course and look out for icebergs. There are some pretty big 4K orders...

Last night I decided to scale up. Normally I trade a few contracts but decided to try 10 contracts of ES. When it went against me I bought more. I continued. Now I am short about 100 contacts and keep on getting margin calls and auto liquidation. What should I do?

Anyone else getting this? Clock in TWS is one hour late. Interestingly, the build release notes claim they fixed the issue, which was not a problem until this build. I tend to stay away from the current build or Beta build. Just checking as I cannot figure any settings that will correct...

All I can say is, stay in the rhythm of the pulses. If you are not synchronized, stops will trigger relentlessly. FWIW, my last 3 system enhancements have all been "synchronization" checks and signals.

But is it Schrödinger's cat?:)

Pretty simple to consider: Do you know enough to trade one of the worlds top tier instruments? It is 98% you, OP, that is the issue, not the ES intraday. Many trade ES intraday with no issues. Those who can't figure it out are the ones who claim it is not them that is the problem, it is...

Question is are the transparent and report their trades? I am not into ETF that do window dressing and trade into shadow funds through private pools.

They both get knocked out by the 38" 1600p Dell.;)

You should always be updating your system and then testing it. Consistent profits with the occasional super days are a solid plan. But more to the point, different systems are designed for different expectations. "Repurposing" a system for a different expectation, reveals the robustness of...

Took me 2 minutes to hook up my MM checking at Wells Fargo. Also there is more at play here than "easy of use". The compliance department oversees a lot. Money laundering is a real thing. To wit, they got fined recently for not overseeing money moving about. And "all those people" tend...

Also to the point, for day trading, a single trade is not really what you are trying to figure out. The question you want to ask is what happens over 100 trades, or even 25? Sometimes you will take the certainty and a smaller gain, sometimes you will go for a larger gain. It is not all or...

Nothing wrong with taking some profits from longs initiated 10 days ago at this juncture.

So far lots of posturing, pontificating, and throwing shade. It seems OP has reached the limits of his learning capacity and now seeks to prop himself up with trade-babble restating the obvious. All the while implying OP is a "master" and you are the novice. This thread reads like an...

String of losses are not random. Albeit, Trading involves skill*. Without skill, then of course you will deal with a "string of losses". First get skilled. Once you have skill, solve the actual problem, by finding the precursors to a "string of losses" and minimizing it into irrelevance...

On 1) Any MA can be made so it "crosses over", so that tell you it is relative. So therefore the notion of "crossing" is arbitrary, group thinking aside. On 2) Back testing sucks with MAs because the reality of real time, intra-bar painting is never captured. Plus the obvious curve fitting...

There is a big difference between theory and practice, strategy and tactics. How often have you seen the better tactics win, even though the strategy is "lesser". Tactics are where things become reality. I suggest *maybe* your tactics are under developed and your strategy over developed...

The MA question comes up pretty often. So one has to ask, what exactly are people looking to INDICATE. Seriously, this is such a basic question but gets skipped almost every time by the newbies. Newbies think some aspect* of a MA will, for instance, INDICATE a time to buy or sell. INDICATE...

I think you are reading too much into patterns into the daily charts because: 1) Daily is not really the best time frame for patterns because the time frame is too large. Too much happens within a day. 2) Futures Daily does not include overnight with distinctly different volume profiles and...

Thanks for the reply. After I posted I tried that. Grouping portfolio-quote monitor layout pages together with a chart window, does NOT result in the chart order defaulting to the group linked portfolio page's default account. I think because one can have multiple quote monitor pages, each...

Hi futuristictrader3467, Can you tell me if this works for "fast trading" fast markets or if you have any experience using this in these conditions. C2, um, did not work. Delays and missed trades and more sever issues. Thanks