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    New E-Mini traders (under 25K traders) trading journal

    I have been actively following eminis (S&P) for a couple of weeks now and on thursday and friday did a few "test the water" trades. These are my observations: They are moving extremely fast and can be very dangerous to trade for novice trader. Think of (JNPR or CIEN) * 10. Executions are...
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    LBR chat room

    Is anyone here member of LBR chat room. It is on a pricey side, is it worth the price?
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    Audio of stock futures pits

    Sorry, but what is a layup in trading terms?
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    Audio of stock futures pits

    What does it mean when he says "locals only". I notice that at those times prices starts to fall.
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    Audio of stock futures pits

    I'm just listening to the guy at realtimefutures.com. Is this guy talking about llarge S&P contract price? What is the key to listen for here? Speed of his talking or background noise? Or something else. If he is talking about large S&P contracts I can observe that emini's are moving first.
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    Pivot points

    Thanks tymjr, That's an excellent booklet. I think that emini trading due to high efficiency should be kept as simple as possible.
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    SEC commissioner Unger steps down

    maybe they should start doing the opposite of stock split
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    Pivot points

    tymjr I'm just not sure which one is used more widely Variation 1 or Variation 2 In today's SP emini trading S1 was 1056 and you can see from today's chart that it was a major support level.
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    Pivot points

    What is the most widely used formula for calculating PP, S1, S2, R1 and R2 in emini trading? Thanks
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    ES and S&P, NQ and NS relationships

    Which are the leading indicators: eminis or full size contracts?
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    After hours follow through

    From your experince, how often does the after hours futures market follow the trend of the last two trading hours? I'm noticing that it usually trades in a narrow channel so the best trading strategy IMO would be to estabilish the channel early on and then buy at the channel lows and sell at the...
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    New E-Mini traders (under 25K traders) trading journal

    tymjr, Can you please tell me what does TF in "The S/R is based on the TF that I predominately trade off of." Also in your opinion which instrument is more suitable for novice futures trader: NQ, ES or possibly Euro currency futures? Thanks a lot.
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    good book on futures trading

    andrasm, Do you mean that one should use trailing stops on multiday basis? - meaning not going flat at 4pm.
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    EchoTrade traders

    What do you mean by "Your initital contribution is held for a year"?
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    New E-Mini traders (under 25K traders) trading journal

    Where can I find that version?
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    New E-Mini traders (under 25K traders) trading journal

    kicking, It is Qcharts and for the last few days I have been following NQ it has been reliable. It matches last price from the IB TWS to the milisecond. The only thing that I don't like is that volume bars are not colored.
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    New E-Mini traders (under 25K traders) trading journal

    In my opinion, no matter what we draw and how we draw it, NQ is a very, very efficient trading instrument, meaning that it is very difficult to make consistent profits in 5-10-15-20 minute trading intervals. Some of the prerequisits for being able to do so: 1: Very reliable and fast...
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    New E-Mini traders (under 25K traders) trading journal

    Lets try to make some sense out of this one.
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    New E-Mini traders (under 25K traders) trading journal

    Do you guys use market or limit orders to get into the trade? I'm practicing TWS hot keys but find it very difficult to place limit order fast enough.
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