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I needed time to complete my chest & arms weight routine... summer office is in the home gym. I prefer one trade that lasts all day and run for 10+ points, but we take what the market offers.

... only difference is, trading key S/R zones is easier :cool:

Trading key S/R zones while ignoring all else is much like stealing...

Well, I suppose I'm part of the T/A brigade because all my trade decisions come from two charts and nothing else. No CNBC (ack!) or fundamental crap or gut-feeling = wild ass guesswork or message board guru calls or twit alerts or anything else that has anything to do with anything other than...

That is true for CL in this day & age. It has become a rather thin symbol since last fall thru now... for whatever reasons. Lately I've been able to fill 5-lots with no different slippage than 1-lots but in June that wasn't the case, CL went inexplicably dead back then like eminis have now gone...

there is no table, and there are no other opponents. It is you and the dealer (market) alone. No one else is involved. Same as blackjack, totally unlike poker.

actually, there is nothing else involved with successful trading other than the harvest of money. Trading is not supposed to be exciting. It is not supposed to be a self-measuring tool, a comparison to other type-A men, a sporting event, gambling venture, biggest swinging contest, bragging...

I'm in somewhat agreement to those opinions above. The limited risk factor daily is skewed from the minimal upside objective. In the case of a $100k 20-day combine, the upside minimum goal is $8500 for that entire trading month. 12 months x 8500 = 102,000 or greater than +100% pace on "account"...

My apologies for the delayed report... although there isn't a whole lot to be reported. Last Friday I was without internet service for most of the day as my repaired office hardware (lightening strike) and new internet provider hookup clashed mightily. When I had connectivity it was down more...

hypothetically speaking to the TF specifically: if it persisted in trading a 6pt range such as today, every day for the next three months without abate, it would implode into itself. markets survive thru price discovery. remove that process of price discovery and you remove participants out...

Mav, out of respect for your positive input here and the fact that the review is booted and we're in demo mode for the next remaining six days, I'll switch to CL and we'll have some fun over there. Meanwhile I can either trade ES or simply observe it, figure out if I want to do anything there...

you don't have to google anything... just ask :cool:

you have not seen three sessions out of four as gap-up and chop days other than 2013. You can count on a single hand how many times ES has left behind two consecutive open gaps thru the past five years... before 2013 the difference now versus before is oscillations. Now price sits in a 2pt or...

My definition of "normal" is price action behaving like NQ did today. That is normal market-auction price discovery thru the pit session of trading On the other hand, today's comatose ES chop and worse, the TF's 6-point non-range is abnormal. And with that abnormality comes the fact that your...

ES gap-up and chop three of four days this week... and all four days nothing but range-dead. Other than overnight lifts outside my operation, four straight days of emini nothingness. Shorted several trades on breakdowns and pullbacks... some went 2pts in favor and back out, some simply chopped...

To make a net positive start and/or fill drawdowns and become positive overall, there needed to be at least one normal range day. But by random chance and nothing else, the first three days of ES price action inside this project have been complete sideways range-chop. Max drawdown of -2000...

Two dead, range-chop sessions led to today's vaunted Fed minutes' afternoon. Would there be any type of methodical oscillations, trend swings, or both today? Not today. Early weakness in the sell zone area, post-news was nothing more than algo whip-rips in no-range fashion again. I was...

well, my take on that is they want to keep risk of loss to practically nil with real money. I'm ok with that... should we reach that second stage of the process, I'll adjust my risk parameters accordingly. by random chance and nothing else, I began with first two days of total range-chop...

over time, it's not that bad... no different than stock trading right now. likewise, everyone has different reasons = goals for the combine. Some use it as a personal litmus test. Others are happy to be funded so they can trade 1 - 2 crude or gold or euro contracts or whatever. Those are all...