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i find that having absolute #'s for your setups helps alot. do your setups tend to be really grey/vague? this is a problem that might be yours. try to encapsulate your setups into a range of allowable #'s, like "I must not enter more than 3 cents away from a moving average". you will...

oh well, i reinstalled the os. put xp on it this time, running like a champ now.....ready to make me some $$$ :)

just updated sp4 and it crashed my computer..blue screen on startup. can't even get into safe mode. i guess its time to reinstall :( i can get access to the harddrive (hooked it up to another computer), but dont' know how to rollback the install. anybody?

i think he means that he trades stocks that have more than 1mil shares traded / day.

i use two laptops that are 500mhz, with a margi card so i can use an additional monitor. first laptop runs quotetracker and IB's trading interface, and 2nd runs chat and other shit. i only trade 1 thing so desktop real estate is not a huge deal for me. main thing to focus on is the redundancy...

correct.

http://www.margi.com/products/prod_dtg.htm this is what i use. no need for the 4mb if you just want to display charts. i can travel just with my 2 laptops and a margi that plugs into a monitor when i need it. that gives me 3 screens and plenty to work with.

started out trading individual stocks and now i trade ETFs (SPY). i like being able to short on a downtick and like the behavior of the stock as it relates to my strategy. all of my futures buddies think i'm weird. maybe i'll switch to futures some day.....right now i'm just concentrating on...

there is no magic answer. you must practice. lots of experience will solve this. be sure to watch the time&sales while you are entering, NOT level ii. see what tends to happen when you get 'shaken out' of your position as opposed to when it goes your way. remember, you are competing with...

you said it perfectly. as a daytrader, you are just working in a smaller fractal of the swing trader's chart. things move quicker and yes, we have to worry about news, #'s at 10am etc... but rarely do we worry about the overall direction of the market on a daily chart. the longest time chart...

i trade 1,2, and 5 minute.....10 cent stop - upon 5-7 cent profit, i move stop to breakeven + 2 cents to cover my commish. i then usually use a more discretionary approach to stops. typically after 15 cents profit, i will exit if more than a 50% retracement occurs. normally, i'll wait for...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=278214#post278214 do a search on my posts and you should be able to understand my approach. if not, pm me and we can talk :cool: good trading!

jai...thanks, this is EXACTLY what i have been doing for the past 4 months. i see patterns in my losing trades, things that i repeat without even knowing it. luckily by writing my thoughts in a log after every trade it just consciously makes me think about it later on. eventually i have...

awesome :) that is what i found....keep it simple, find a way to extract $$ out everyday...don't go for every move and just find where you can get high risk/reward trades here and there. try to get your charts setup so you feel comfortable with the indicators you have, and then see why these...

blowout? i was mostly trading paper and small lots. i don't understand how you can blowout. once you are profitable on paper or simulator, you switch to 100 share lots. profitable on that 2 weeks, then 200...and so on. nothing personal but blowing out seems irresponsible to me. if you...

lots of hard work. :) seriously, i have been studying way before i started....maybe 3 or 4 months. i started by joining a chat room that did breakout volitility trades. didn't fit my style. i met some people in the chat room who were successful and asked them what they did. simple as...

today is my 63rd day of trading. yesterday was the first time i have made profits 2 days in a row. today is looking to be profitable. i feel sooooo great right now, like a huge obstacle has been lifted off my shoulders. i've been waiting for this day. sorry if i sound silly, its just been a...

great final table....anyone catch it on the travel channel? alan goehring won it, and he's also a retired trader.....he beat kirill gerasimov, phil ivey, james hoeppner, ted forrest, and..... doyle brunson himself. the final heads up match between alan and kirill was a classic. kirill...

we should have a forum just for these types of questions....call it....gamblers anonymous.

over the past 4 months (my professional trading career so far) i have noticed something that keeps coming back up every time. whenever an instrument gets close to a whole #, it will almost ALWAYS go to it. and when it gets there it sticks like glue. many false signals as the whole # brings it...