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This is scary! I plan to trade Naz emini with IB and hold most of my trades for less than 5 minutes, there is no way I can do that if this kind of problem happens even occasionaly. Especially since the TWS (at least for stocks ) take about 2-3 minutes to connect!! I hope this is going to be...

I am not sure stock futures daytrading is going to be such a good proposition. Right now there is a lot of hype and Futures exchanges and brokers expect to cash in on these new products by attracting (naive?) newcomers.There is the leverage that can decimate your account real quick, the...

Originally posted by gerry875 [/i] for most of the time, the nq shows "cleaner" patterns. overall - movement of the futures for me does not seem to be as jumpy as stocks-movement. Actually I think (nasdaq) stocks have much cleaner patterns, stocks like QLGC, PDLI, HGSI often make near...

I am going to start trading NQ in a few weeks, I have been papertrading and trading the Q's off the NQ for a month or so. Daytrading the Q's on ISLD is quite difficult in my experience with the stops I try to adhere to (2-3 NQ points or 10 cents) mainly because of execution and spread (the...

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Hitman, You may find out that what they teach in college is often presented in a very boring way and almost useless for practical purposes. However I do think it' s better to have some kind of a formal education in finance and economics to see the big picture and for your own enlightenment...

There is a commodity trader in Market Wizards who hadn't had a losing day for years.

When you open a futures account you may sign an arbitration agreement with your broker but you don't have to as a CFTC statement indicates. Why should I sign it ? For those of you who didn't agree to settle through arbitration what was your experience in terms of account approval, trading limits...

:p Hoyler, I hope the BB used to trade a "BB channel" work for you, that's all I can say. I am curious to see the results when you backtest this strategy. It all comes down to what you are comfortable with, I 'll never trade this way because I am sure there are better risk/reward trades...

I am looking for the same info but for the put/call ratio

I am not sure but I think FARLEY also uses 13 MA BB for intraday charts. His explanation on how he uses them is quite interesting, notably regarding the BB opening or staying flat when price moves to the band. But seriously do you guys use BB a lot?, I think the concept of the bands...

I perused this book the other day at BN, it's much much better than Murphy's book that I have. The whole section on failed patterns and real life chart analysis and the discussion about reversing position are really an eye opener for beginning traders. I went with Murphy's book thinking it was...

I see. Thanks so much. I am not sure how continuous charts are built and thought the only way to do it was just adding at expiration the new contract data to the serie of expired contracts. But don't you come up with different S/R levels depending on the method used? This is a bit confusing.

What about stop and market orders for emini futures?

I know that but why adjust S/R? btw dou you guys watch more the cash or the futures to pinpoint the major S/R on the long term charts? I can't find any good continuous chart on the web (tradesignals is good but a bit buggy and I can't get continuous charts for some products) so I just look at...

Sorry I don't quite understand, why do you have to adjust supports and resistance? The value of both contract is the same at expiration, right? If there was support at 1530, isn't 1530 going to be resistance next month, assuming we keep going lower? I must be missing something with the premium...

Just a question from a novice On Thursday 09/6 and in general when the rollover is made how different is the trading volatility and liquidity wise in the contract about to expire and the new front month contract? Also from a daytrader's perspective, do you keep trading the Septembre...

I guess you have to buy his books to find out aha. I don't like too much these traders-authors ( many on tradingmarkets.com)who invent fancy terms to describe their favorite setups, most of those are rarely anything new but you think it's new because you never heard the term. For example "the...

Daytrading crackdown! (lol) Yeah right and we are all mental patients

Not only is it sad it's downright wrong. They hype the market whenever they can, especially the girls. These journalists have no thorough understanding of what really moves the market short term (i.e. psychology) yet they claim they are there to help people make money in the market! There is...