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just curious, how successful are you scalping/daytrading options on the qqq's??? anyone? ive tried futures and stocks, but everytime i get my ass handed to me, i go back to the qqq's (options) and trade them to get back up again. Im starting to think that that is what i should do period. Im...

this mkt reminds me of the same type of rally we had about a year ago. gaps were left all over theplace and didnt fill until a couple of months ago. i got the short bias in me, but this mkt has some more gas in it. so tempting to go against the trend, but that handed me my a$$ today!!!

3 trades later and the NQ still doesnt want to give me my money back!!!:( whats up with that!!! not even a point!!! thats it, you win. im outta here:confused:

is everyone getting chopped to hell this morning or is it just my fine trading skills??? geeezzz, NQ, ES, are just all over the place, and this is after the 10am frenzy. ouch. reversal bars left and right. maybe taking an early weekend might not be a bad idea.

just curious, when are they going to cancell the $2 contract? i couldnt find it anywhere. on cbot they only give out info on the $5 one only. hmm did they kill it already??? thnx

I swear sometimes reading these boards is better than watching Seinfeld. :D Good one tampa.:cool:

playing a mkt maker in the YM is fun but can be really deadly if all the bids disapear under you. then watch out:eek: if you want, you could try to swing trade the dow using the YJ i think thats the $2 multiplier. that might not be that rough, but dont do it this week, its crazy! wait till...

That YM hurts, i know. i too left a few points get away from me on the nq and es so i tried the ym, hey its only 2 bucks a point - how bad can it get. well, the spread on it was horrible and the liquidity too. tying to trade those on small 5-10 minute trades is kinda tough. Lets say you see a...

i think the problem with the qqq's is that aphie wont be able to really daytrade this as the PDT rule will kick in. So he will be kinda limited, but then again maybe it will be good for him as he wont be overtrading. Either way good luck aphie. I've been trading futures lately as well and i...

Im from slovakia- retail. options / futures I was in Prauge 2 weeks before it got floded, thats after 13 years of being in the states, and i must say, i was so damn confused- people were talking czech slovak and english, it was like i was in a universal country no matter who talked to me i...

well i just want to start somewhere to see what its all about. It might not be my cup of tea, but i am always open to new ideas, and if i can learn something, then why not. I just wanted to get some sort of direction and not waste money and time on silly books that think they know gann and throw...

oh yeah definitely, i know this has been discussed before, and my opinion is that its not the fib numbers but rather the tight target and slightly loose stop and the ods of hitting the tgt first. So yeah i know the results wont be comparable to you guys. I guess this is an experiment on its own...

well i did my papertrades on this. i think it came out the first two trades were tgt reached, then i got stopped out twice but i didnt reverse it. then i got another point and another stop out. As far as comparing it to others, i basically use the timer that was provided, and am synchronized...

Hey guys, just wondering where should one start if he wants to learn about Gann? I see he wrote several books, particularly one called "How to Make Profits In Commodities" and apparently this one seems as a good start. Can any of you recomend something better or in addition to this? I have...

hey bronks, i too was trading the nq, simply because i was comfortable trading the qqq's and kinda had a feel for the flow of the techies if something like that exists, so i traded it a bit and one bad experience for me caused me to stop and re-evaluate. So i looked at the es, i didnt know why...

sorry to jump on your thread bronks, but questin for the gurus, in bronks' case, if he was 4 points in the money would it be advisable to move the stop at that point to a break even or slightly higher, simply trailing the current price by some fixed number that trader is comfortable with? any...

see thats my problem i cant reduce the size as i am trading the ES, i wish they had a mini of the mini, i am trading the dow mini but those spreads make it tough to get out if the mkt starts reversing, spreads will eat me up on it. and the ES with a 2 point stop can bite pretty badly after a few...

Hey chris that seems to be right on, the 100% mental part, but its tough to tame, and get rid of that notion that hey if i wait it might be a better entry. today i took some trades and i was actually pleased with execution, although the last trade i took i gave it all back and some, but thats...

Heeey, im getting anxious here! Need to make a career decision pretty soon.:D :D :D

tony sorry to jump in on your thread, but i have to say that maybe this is something that i definitely need to incorporate in my trading too. Placing stop first then the trade. I think that this one rule can be one of the greatest things to make sure you are trading with discipline. No matter...