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In the present market conditions for roughly past twelve months, crude oil (CL) offers profit opportunity between 9:05am and noon est, then again from 1:30pm thru 2:30pm est. Other than 2am - 4am thru roughly 7am est, there is nothing consistently moving. 7am thru 9am and then noon - 1:30pm...

Apparently you don't find edges very often in the afternoon stretch... by your very own words. Just because the market is open for accepting trades does not mean said market is open for profitable opportunity. That's the part where most individual traders go dead-wrong. Open market does not...

seriously, does anyone actually trade in this board any more? There was about 0.6 seconds time lapse when the eminis blew straight parabolic. Not 6.0 seconds. these guys post this stuff in defense of HFTs and zero volume like the rest of us weren't sitting there in front of our screens...

You went full retard. Saying present volume is like 2006 = saying your wife is just as hot as Rosie O'donell. 2006 was hands down the deadest vol, worst trading year in its entire decade. I can think of and name at least ten years of the past thirteen that were way better than 2013 for...

Here's what you're missing, and this has nothing at all to do with TST in particular... Trader #1 has $100,000 account balance, trading 2 contracts of xyz futures symbol. He makes +$3,000 net gain the last calendar month for +3% month or +36% annualized return on capital. Trader #2 has...

This tired rhetoric thread does not assume said futures traders in question are trading "a portfolio". That's something stock traders do... irrelevant to this thread entirely. Now when it comes to "hedged" specifically, if you are 100% hedged from all risk then you are 100% flat any...

EricP summed it up on Page One. Do you want mass quantity of posts? Or trading-specific and constructive posts predominantly? There is a difference. BMT has a lot more trader - trading dialog threads than ET at this time, and has been for awhile. If you back out all the non-trading threads...

no I have not seen such a trader contract. Is that info available to the public listed in their website? I have never seen anything like that or any other restrictions. If it is visible to the public in their site, I somehow overlooked it

I think TST combines ala funded status is more geared for experienced traders than fledglings. Personally I see nothing wrong with working one's way to 80% payout in due time with OPM... whether it's your only account or side account, it is still 100% buying power you otherwise would not have...

Absolutely right. No trader on earth ever has, does now or ever be able to identify pending price action as directional or sideways. Everyone sees what it was in hindsight, and most failing traders keep themselves stuck in the hindsight rut of what they should/could have done. The reality is...

I finished this combine net profitable, but unsuccessful to qualify for review. There was never any question about ending profitable to some degree… just a matter of operating inside the combine limits or not. Profitable ending part was assured. The trade management strategy I attempted...

To me the terms "profitable scalper" and "sasquatch" are synonymous. Plenty of people swear such things exist, not a soul has ever been able to produce hard evidence of either in reality. As for myself, I've logged and booked roughly +$4,000 per each CL and also for each TF contract in the...

I reached a point where I'm simply not interested in doing battle with ES when the VIX is at 12. Some days it moves far enough to enjoy profitable results, some days it just chops inside a dead range all session. Worst-case for me is I'm trading TF & CL for myself, same as usual no changes...

they'd be losing same as the entrants who breakeven or experience slight loss the other side of a losing system is a losing system... everyone knows that :cool:

... official blotter :)

At this moment in time, CL is not swinging or oscillating intraday. It just moves from one algo-driven surge to the next algo-driven explosion with nothing but tight-range chop in between. It does not make several moves per day that permit working several trades in methodical fashion. CL traders...

(continued) So from +900 to about -600 at the lows, final trade sequence was long 2 from 102.85 and long 2 more from 102.95 => 4 from 102.90 blended. I calculated breakeven for the day at near 103.10 and knew that statistical odds favored 103.40 print at/past the pit close. So what was...

scratch day overall. In yet another illiquid algo-driven dogpile move lower, could not fill at the desired high mark so filled at next sell sequence lower. Caught enough of a chunk to make +900 and looked to enter a new trade, but the next leg down in selloff to lows was so violent it had no...

...official blotter My daily objective is to scale-in one or more 5-lot to 10-lot contract positions, pick off +40 ~ +50 cents to possibly +100 cents if price blows away with my position along for those frequent algo-surge moves. So far this week, CL has mirrored the eminis and all else...