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Any idea why ZB is up 2 points? Short covering? Elections?

lets see if 12935 holds. If it breaks bellow it, next support is at 12769

I exited long @ 12994 but didn't have the balls to go short.

Umm, why you waste your time posting a reply to a stupid poll then? Anyways, thanks to those that took the poll. I am actually hoping that volatility would drop back to normal in November, but for now, I am trading with 40 pip stops.

Great article Pabst! How often do you write these articles? Post them here when you do :)

Oh puhleez! Don't compare these crooks with the day traders. These guys were gambling with house money, and once they brought the house down, they looked at tax payers to bail them out.

I relate to that. I usually pull the trigger too early because I think I am going to miss out on an opportunity. Sometimes it's out of boredom. I have learned to talk myself out pulling the trigger prematurely by remembering and visualizing the last time I lost money by being impatient. If I...

All I can say is thank God! I got stopped out of half of my trade prematurely last month. I hope today's actions are indicative of activity for November.

lol, no I just want to know what kind of stops other people are using. My day trade R:R on EUR.USD used to be 10/20. I dropped size and increased R:R to 20/40. Now I am thinking about going to 40/80 and cutting size in half again. If that doesn't work, I'll stop day trading FX for a while...

How wide are your day trade stops during current market volatility?

How wide are your day trade stops during current market volatility?

You clearly receive your information from kosher sources. Jews were target because of their association with communism. They were seen as an alien force fighting to undermine the local and native culture of Europe. The communism/Jewish association was removed out of history books during the...

IB's bracket orders are great and I use it all the time. (I use it under Book Trader | Hot Keys) My only pet peeve is the inability to configure different bracket levels for different instruments. It seems like bracket settings are global. (at least in Book Trader they are) I haven't...

Great post! I lose money whenever I venture into scalping during the trading day. I find that boredom and/or starring at short term charts for too long can trigger an overtrading compulsion in me. As for correcting the problem, I am not sure how realistic are these "just don't trade"...

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The dollar rally will continue until the equity markets stabilize.

The funniest -- and prophetic -- post on ET ..... :D

This is very true. The current implied on the qqqq's is at 68% with delta for at the money at around 0.5. You’ll need the market to swing in excess of 3-6% per day for you to see a decent change in your option price. It's just not worth day trading it.

That's what I have started doing: increased risk/reward from 10/20 to 20/40 but reduced size by half.

I day trade bond futures and forex, not stocks, but I believe the same concept applies: Less is more! I normally don't track more than 1-2 instruments during the day. Having a big watch list always causes me to become undisciplined and make random trades.