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Jimmy - What's the unit of measure for those candles on the chart you posted? Sandy

bgp - I don't use KCs on the 1 min. As with many indicators, the KCs have more value on the longer term charts. I watch them on the 5 min and 30 min primarily. I use 10 period EMA, 10 period ATR, with 1.3 band multipliers. If you look at the 30 min yesterday with candlesticks, the...

Thanks for your reply. It would seem that channels would be useful for your scaling processes (whether manually drawn, or calculated). You mentioned BBs, but not Keltner Channels. Have you looked at KCs at all? I find KCs more useful than BBs. Sandy

Very impressive for having no "edge". :D Hope you don't mind if I probe your methods a bit. Are you adding positions as price goes against you, or when it moves with you (i.e. adding to losing positions to average down or to winning positions to build on success)? Do you determine the...

4re - I for one, vote for keeping the thread going, even though we know that you won't be trading some or many of the S/R levels. It's been a good learning experience, and I'd appreciate it if you could continue. Thanks. Sandy P.S. Just came back from a camping trip with my 10...

DTES - We haven't seen any results for the last couple of days. Have you been trading? Eager to see how you've been doing. Sandy

Ahh, you fell for the 6 for 9 trick. Grob-junior - very funny parody indeed! Drinking already this morning, or is that ability for stream-of-conciousness babble an innate gift?

I have very good resolution on my monitors. Each 19" gives an equivalent of 1280 x 1024 (technically it's 3840 x 1024, spread across the three external monitors). I'm no expert in these things, but resolution may be a factor of the video card/driver you've got in your laptop.

Bought it direct from Matrox for $299 before shipping costs.

I just thought I'd give a big thumbs up to the new Matrox Triple Head2Go. Just installed it last night and connected 3 x 19" Dell monitors to my laptop. Intstallation was a snap - made the connections, installed the software, set the configuration I wanted and that was it. I've never had so...

Would you mind posting an intraday chart of what you look at when you trade? It appears that you buy off support and sell from resistance levels. Thanks! Sandy

Very nice performance, DTES. :) It looks like you are making determinations of support and resistance levels. Are you playing for bounces off those areas, or for breakouts/breakdowns after price goes through those areas, or both? Sandy

Wow, you've been a busy guy! Don't get burned out working all the market opens around the world. :) Are you able to automate your order entries, or do you have to manually place the orders while watching the market at opening time? Sandy

I, as I suspect is true with many futures traders, cut my trading teeth on options years ago. I still have a stock/options account which I don't manage as effectively as I should. I'd appreciate hearing what approach you take with options (swing trading, selling premium decay, straddles...

4re - Wow, this was a posting that I didn't expect to see. Really sorry to see you go, but I certainly understand how business interests take precedence over trading (having previously owned a manufacturing business myself). This was one of the most beneficial threads that I've read on...

How did today work out for you? Did you go long then short, or did your bracket keep you out until the short got going? Clearly the short is where you made your 1+% today.

4re - I understand that you were working your BB method today (which seemed to work quite well). However, does that mean you didn't play your 1272.5 breakout long call from last night? I'm just wondering how I could have managed it better. It hit 1273.5 before turning down and...

Well, first time trading this S/R strategy with real money and stopped out for -2.0. :( Wondering if anyone managed it better than I did.

4re - In looking at the daily chart with your BB set-up, today's candle looks like a good buy signal - long tail through the lower BB and a positive close. Additionally, there are divergences setting up on the MACD and stochastic, which should complete tomorrow or Monday if there's some...

4re - Regarding your testing on the YM, were you working the S/R method or the BB method when you said you had 5 winners out of 6 trades yesterday? Sandy