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No methods at all actually. Whenever I have time, I look at the chart and think about current events. This way I pick a direction and an entry price. Once I'm in, it all plays itself, and I keep getting in and out and back in and back out until the price moves away. If that leaves me with an...

If you find the right instrument and a way to control your risk there is probably a LOT of money to be made by trading the chop, or as I would say, cutting your winners short and letting your losers ride. I have been trying to implement this with 1-lots (which I guess is a little more difficult...

Oh my! I hope it was not my previous post that sparked this little free fall. In the interest of full disclosure I should like to add that I made no profit whatsoever from it. On the contrary, my HPQ position has already cost me about $20.

I don't know what indicators you are lookin at, but I'm not sure I would want to be long equities now. Actually I am, but only 100 shares of Hewlett P*ckerhead.

I think I know what you mean. I believe it is just too much data trying to get into your brain each moment. I have been able to trade ZB and ZN, but I keep losing money in ES and NQ. Although I must say I have been improving, so I am not giving up just yet. What I am trying to do when...

Says who?

ditto

Had an outage from about 10:17 to 10:24 EST. Since then, it has been kind of funky.

So do I. Probably a lot more than you. But I have one advantage compared to the average guy: I am not what the talking heads on TV would call a "sophisticated consumer", i.e. I don't buy things I cannot afford.

This is something that we who have never made more than a few hundred k have a hard time understanding. I have a friend like that. If in any given trade there is not a realistic potential to make a few grand then he feels it's not worth his time. It's really not that difficult to understand...

Some people just seem to be wired differently. Just remember this incident if you ever have to do jury duty and consider the fact that if the defendant claims this kind of memory loss he might actually be telling the truth.

To be frank, I don't care one way or another how much spam is allowed on ET. Everyone has to make a decision as to what is important in his life and how far he wants to go in his attempts to achieve it. But you who attack spammers, don't you realize that you are helping them much more than...

There are almost no native Americans left alive. We should never forget that this country was founded on the greatest genocidal holocaust mankind has ever seen.

Yes! I had this one right. I knew it was going to be a harrytrader thread. I have not read anything except the headline, but I must say: 1. Is there anyone who is not a criminal? 2. Is there anyone who is not a criminal and would not be a criminal if the political circumstances in...

I don't know about that "24 hour" thing. Is it really that important? Don't you ever sleep. Also, there is a strong trend in the FX markets right now because the US is going down the drain and taking the dollar with it. What we have been observing in the last couple of years is merely a...

I like this thought. Of course, the most difficult step is the leap from one contract to two. I wonder if I will ever make it. Used to trade 100 share lots, after several months increased to 200, then 300, and then sometimes a lot more if the per share price was low. Now I trade 1-lots...

Amazing! Not only would you want your self worth to consist only of money, but you also choose a mediocre amount. Do you realize what you said is 100 million, not 100 billion?

A nice statement. Is there anyone here who can name a real number x so that he would like his own self worth to be exactly x dollars?

Thunderdog has a point. The way I usually put it is that you would have to assume a certain sort of distribution, like for example a normal distribution, in order to get any meaningful numbers. But in reality, we don't even know what kind of distribution would be appropriate, so there is...

Sorry I don't know the answer to your question, but have you noticed how in the past few months lots of people on here have developed an interest in ZN and ZB? If that means that in a few months the treasury futures will trade like ES and NQ, I might as well start looking for a job right away...