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I agree with what you said earlier about most traders overanalyzing the market. IT seems the simpler it is the better it works many times. Who is Ron Hudson?

I have thought about this and the question comes to mind again after I read the Market Monk blog. It was an interesting read but have no idea how legit the blog is or not. However, what I thought would be interesting to discuss is if this method of constantly being in the market throughout the...

I took a look at this one. I really don't know what to say about it. What is your take on it?

Spreading lies? I just proposed the question. In my opinion you perfectly answered the question for me with your perfect responses. You are right though I don't have the time to read all the posts here. About explaining the handle I won't waste my time, but obviously you don't get it and...

Well I guess that pretty much answers the question then for me. That was a typical Prof response of lashing out. I don't think anyone here was bagging on Dow theory so I don't know how you jumped to that conclusion. Oh yes the handle name of mine is a joke because I actually have a sense of...

I might be mistaken but this sounds like good old Proflogic. Could he be back so soon? I think his theory was based on Dow. I can't be sure because the word "perfect" has not been used yet but similar attitude.

Hydroblunt I noticed you always get real angry when someone posts that they are having success with trading especially if they are doing something different then you. Who cares if how someone trades eventually does go away the smart ones trade it up until it goes away. That happens all the...

Like I mentioned before I am just giving my opinion on the subject. I don't trade the spread but use it at times to help make decisions for trading directionally. I am by no means a spreading guru. I don't know the spread range during the last few days of rollover. However I know some days...

Although by no means am I the final word on this but I am not a big fan of actually spread trading unless you are taking longer term position trades such as 10 yr/bund when it was around par and you are holding it from months back based at the time on crappy euro economy vs the US improving...

My theory or should I say opinion is that it is a way to make a quick few ticks by someone who is trading very large size. Sweep it 5 ticks, get all the scalpers/spreaders stuck and then buy or sell it back from them when they get out. IT never really seems to have any follow through after the...

Thanks for the post. I have some questions for you. First when you say you are scaling in and out, are you only scaling in on the way up for a long position or are you averaging down on your position within a defined range? SO it sounds like your style is trading 100's of times a day. Why...

In regards to your post I was talking about changing trading size intraday. The size increase you mentioned above is that of someone moving up their default trading size over time. What I thought would be interesting to discuss in this thread is how one adjusts their size intraday if they do...

Thanks for the recommendation. SO I take it that is what you are using?

I have begun to realize more and more how much position sizing can effect your results. I am trading at a futures trading office that promotes cutting your postion size when you are trading poorly or losing and moving it back up as you are trading better. This is in a non automated environment...

I don't trade the ER2 but what seems to happen in other markets if this starts becoming a new pattern is that spreaders start entering the market with enough size to kill the follow through that everyone used to love and come to expect. Then again maybe today was just an oddity.

I can't figure out why you continue to even run the mentor chat site thing. I think at one point last year you admitted you did not make much from it - 50K or less. Surely for person selling his trading knowledge with all the time you put into building and running that site you could come up...

Anyone have any idea why the 10 yr outperforming so much relative to the 5 and 30 yr. The 10 yr explodes towards the close but the the 5 and 30 can even touch or get near the highs

I think some of it is positioning. Specs were heavily short nasdaq at an unusually high level. Normally when this happens you get a squeeze or any sell off is a struggle because now all these shorts are trying to cover on the way down. Just my thoughts though on the subject. However it has...

Maybe something to do with options expiration and a big high volume strike price at 112 -- defending that level.

It really depends on the firm you go with. Some like to scalp it up and have their traders doing 40-100+ trades a day and others don't care as long as you are making money. I would say that almost all of the higher volume traders have cut down drastically in the last year. Where they use to...