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I am able to find good entries, however monitoring the trade and setting profit targets / stop losses is something that I am not good at. Do you guys find that using Fib numbers in this respect is something useful?

I use a combination of techinal indicators to decide on an entry point. I usually exit when the slope of a MA turns negative or when Momentum turns down. Often I end up with something that was a profit that turned into a loss. I wish I had better exits. From what I have read about Jack...

hey thanks that was exactly what I was looking for

I was just wondering what are some more index futures that have good volume for trading... Can anyone add to the list. ES NQ YM ER2 EMD thanks

Just like the subject says, I'm interested in meeting someone who's interested in developing tradestation strategies. If so PM ME Thanks,

if you are from phoenix and are interested in creating strategies via trade station PM ME and we could possibly get together to work on this.

Not sure you understood what I read. Say daily bars are very easy to trade and you get a win rate of 85% let's just say winners and = to loser, and say you also trade the 5 minute bars with a win rate of 51%. You will have bigger swings on the 5 minute bars. Yes I realize that the range of a...

I do appreciate you advice however you could say that risk tolerance is max drawdowns. Max drawdowns are directly related to how profit a system is. Sure you would think that a 5 minute bar strategy, has a lower max drawdown compared to a daily bar strategy, however if the daily bar...

I live in Phoenix, AZ, and have begun tradestation , working about 60 hours a week for about 2 months. I have come up with a strategy that I believe to be profitable. Kinda hard to tell if you just fit the curve or if you have something that is really worthwhile, but I have read many...

Put these in order from the easiest time frame to make money to the most difficult. 1 minute bars 5 minute bars 15 minute bars 30 minute bars daily minute bars

I recently made a post asking the real advantage of a prop firm. If leverage is your answer then why not just trade futures of forex. However Marketsurfer who has like 8,000 posts said that there is more advantage in equities. Is that true? Can someone explain this to me?

I currently run everyday an automated strategy using tradestation. Problems: RJO is not the greatest broker, and tradestation only pays you 1.25% on your money. I've been reading about this TradeBolt, but not exactly sure what it is. I have an account at IB, and I really like the...

Surf, Can you explain how there is more of an edge in stocks vs. futures/forex?

Pumpkin, I'm not voicing my opinion either way, but basically you feel as if prop firms are worthless right?

That is what I originally thought that prop firms were for MONEY / LEVERAGE. If you didn't have money why not just trade futures, or forex... you'll get more than enough leverage there. They only reason I would see in terms of moneywise of joining a prop firm is getting leverage on equities...

Don, Thanks for your reply. My first idea was that prop firms are mostly all manual trading, learning though "mostly feel" by using an arrange of indictors. I initally tried that and failed. Then I switched over learning learning to write code and creating specific entry and exits...

I've never done been to a prop firm, and probably not going to consider getting into one. I'm content going solo doing my programming thing However I was just wondering what do they teach you there? Do they teach you a strategy on how to beat the market? Or do they just let you loose, and...

It is much harder to make money automated trading? Seems to me that since you take out emotions and have concrete rules that have been proven to work in the past that automated trading is far superior that regular trading. I mean after all why would you want to sit in front of a computer all...

If you were going to trade the YM. How many contracts would you have to trade in order to move the price. Like with (1) contract you ain't gonna effect price @ all, but what # of contracts is it that you start to move prices? Thanks

I was just checking out the neoticker website. Does anyone who has used them know if they have good material to learn the programming language. I already have a tradestation account and I am beginning to learn easy language and I can say that doing that is not as easy task, at least for...