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I actually saw a 30 min infomercial on TV last week for this crap. Funniest stuff. He showed a couple of charts of his system working with stocks like JNPR in the 100's. My favorite part was the scene of a man in bed trading with a laptop making big money while his wife watched along. The...

It started yesterday for the bonds.

Because all the volume already moved to the june contract. Got to the CBOT.com and look at volume between the 2 contracts

Well I don't know if you have traded NYSE stocks before because I know some futures traders who never have, but stocks are not as liquid as the futures are. It is entirely possible to have a NYSE stock gap against you a large amount without any shares being traded or without the ability to get...

What I quoted was more a followup to what Silk said about the difficulties of trading NYSE stocks right now, where if you take a big loser you don't have much opportunity to make it up with a big winner.

Also why is it that the big losing trade happens so quickly but the winning trade for the same size move takes so long and is so hard to get? I got bent over on my first trade which did not last very long and spent the rest of the day trying to make it back. Can be a pretty unforgiving...

How do you find that position for the day?

So what happens when things "pickup again"? If stocks actually get volume and follow thru back to the, do you think the futures will trade even better then they have been trading now. I would assume they would pick up hand in hand meaning if you have a good strategy for futures and doing well...

Notice the ones who are not complaining are trading futures and the ones that have had a tough time are the ones trading stocks. Stocks have been OK if you are in the right ones (I haven't found the right ones either this week). However one goal I reached this week was obtaining my worst fill...

I don't know if the broker is trading against you but there are hotkeys on some software platforms where you can put bids and offers out on every ecn for the same amount of shares or different amounts at the same time with one key stroke. That might be what is happening. Some traders used to do...

I thought Protrader cut deals with ETG and Bright for them to use the software too so it would seem weird for them to sell it because those firms are bringing in some volume. However I don't know how much it is widely used yet because the current version does not have all the items that these...

That is why I have been looking at making the switch over. Just trying to figure out a good stategy before throwing money at it. I have not a lot of stocktraders who switched over and got cornholed because they were trying to trade them like they traded stocks.

All depends on what stock you were trading. Unfortunately I was not in the right ones for the number.

I can't believe how little we moved on such a horrible consumer confidence number. I did not expect it to meet expectations but it was way way off. Five months ago that would have been a huge payday number for me but today not so much. That is why I guess you have to see what the reaction to...

I too have picked up a couple of ideas from this thread so I have found it useful. Like it was said everything you have talked about has been fairly clear.

What is funny is most of the time when I hear this go on the guy cutting the deal and skimming the top is not trying to get 25 cents. They get greedy and go for a dollar or more. That in of itself is not bad like I said if they are the ones training everyone or putting up money for the other...

What you say depends on the circumstances of the person getting the override. If he is a recruiter then it makes sense. If he is supplying trading knowledge/teaching for the group or trading capital then it probably makes sense depending on the relationship of the group. But if it is...

What is max adverse excursion analysis?

I can automate fixed point trailing stops but was trying to see if there were better ideas out there defining where your trailing stops were and your initial stops. The problem is not following the stops but seeing if I can improve upon the results with using a better stop and trailing stop...

I have tried what you said about the moving to BE but the problem that I have had is that many times I have been in what would have been a 7 point winner or so but was stopped out because of one of those wacky spike moves where I was up 2 points it pulls back to my entry and stops me out on the...