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Have you ever noticed there is a different excuse every day of why the grain markets did what they did that day? Waaaay too many factors affecting these markets to come to a hard and fast conclusion that it will do this or it will do that.

$10 corn should pretty much kill demand and exports and push whatever ethanol plants are left over the edge.

I think that would compete against our ethanol "industry". With corn where it is our ethanol plants are going to have a hard time keeping their head above water.

Unless the oil bubble bursts I don't see prices going down all that much.

And when its all said and done it will probably just follow oil anyway.

Or go to the USDA website and click on the "Newsroom" tab

Here is a direct link to the USDA website Keep it in your Favorites for future reference http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?navid=AGENCY_REPORTS&navtype=RT&parentnav=NEWSROOM&edeployment_action=changenav

I know of someone who is a professional pit trader AND a chess player who has attained Master level.

Thanks for posting. Glad to see you're coming back.

Be prepared for the USDA acreage report coming out Monday morning. There could be limit moves one way or the other. I'd be leary of holding a position past Sunday night.

Maybe Market Profile would help you. Based on standard deviation. Markets tend to pull back from 2nd & 3rd std deviation back to 1st std deviation. That's a pretty general statement of course. If it were always that easy . . .

Thanks for starting the thread. I don't have the experience but have found this style of trading to my liking. It offers less time exposed to the market which translates, I believe, into less chance of getting caught in an adverse move. Just in and out, take a few ticks, and look for the next...

Now that's BLASPHEMY! :)

Get a papertrading account and learn to scalp off the DOM. It's a video game. Buy when prices are moving up and sell when prices are moving down. Set up hot keys for buy and sell and reverse. Once you have been able to double your paper trading account then go live.

My 24" Acer works with my 15" MacBook Pro

And don't forget you have to replace the battery. I'm sure that isn't cheap and it must be expensive to pay the "environmental fees" to dispose of the old one. Nasty lead you know.

I meant all the chart patterns posted above with "HH", "HL", etc. I'm not knocking what you are doing. If it is making you money that is all that matters. I started doing better when I switched to just working off the DOM. I seem to see things better their than I do on a chart. But that's...

Looking at all the squiqqly lines and having to interpret each one accurately would seem to me to greatly increase the odds of missing the call. Too busy for me. Just my 2 cents.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99283&highlight=AHG

One 3-tick trade in the ES every half hour with one contract for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks per year.