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Humm that could be your problem, can you open the browser based TWS platform?

What operating system are you running?

Your making a mistake, I have tried every broker out their, IB is the best, the offer so much for so little. They truly are the best discount broker. I like you have closed my account before, sort of an emotional thing, then I would always come back.

Great plan, go for it! short the index futures right here, now is your chance don't wait do it now Mr contrarian.

So do we breakout today, are do we sell the top of this range? Technicals are set for a break to the upside.

Seems you ran him off, maybe his strategy was really one of the two you mentioned.

Dude everyone is going thru the same thing you are. Look back at last June same ole song and dance. It wont always be like this, (I hope). Inflows to equities have slowed to a trickle. Things will pick up this fall, until then be quick.

True, but the are so quick and they turn just as fast. I like a slow steady rise. 1-3 days. These 20 minute 70-100 point spikes are hard as heck to trade. I guess you just need to adapt and start scalping quick profits intra-day, flexibility is a must in these markets if you want to do it for a...

No I am really just sitting here not doing much. But im glad you brought up forward contracts. Have you noticed the low open interest in June YM.

For Dow mini don't get much tougher than that folks. Markets like this always lead to something big. I suspect a strong move soon.

Your right, momentum strategies (trend following) profits are made on 20% of their trades. The focus on these types of strategies is to start by minimize your losses during directionless phases of the market which occur 80% of the time.

Your priority should be to minimize the losses in this directionless market. Is their anyway you can test your strategy from 1965-1980, that may help you.

Keep in mind that momentum strategies tend to lose money in choppy or directionless phases of the market. They have a small percentage of winning trades; that is, they make their money in a few big trades. This means that if you miss a big move, you may not have enough capital to hold out...

Here we are today.

And here we are today.

Looks like we a running in place. The range this year is a tad higher.

You know soon as we turn our backs it will breakout. The technicals are set up, but just need some conformation. I will keep waiting.

The more this wears on the more it smells like distribution, this drifting up overnight. then the stair step sell off, just smells of distribution. It appears most of these quick spikes on the upside are being sold into. I feel pretty good my strategy is about break even over the past three...

Well I don't know if its a good call yet, Market is bumping up against this three now going on 4 week resistance. It could fall apart if some big company warns. But I suspect fund managers will support the market headed into close of 2nd quarter books.

Index futures are looking ripe for an upside breakout, End of 2 quarter could go out with a bang, be ready. Daily ADX on Dow has fallen from 40 to under 15. MACD has stayed positive.