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Interesting indeed. Don't you get thrown around at the opening times for the US? (3.30p.m. European time). - Ftse futures used to be awful for about 30 mins while the US settled down... Kind regards Natalie

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I agree. I removed all the p/l things from my trading screens, and suddenly, all I was focusing on was 2 points here or 50 cents there - most importantly NOT on the dollar amount gained or lost - this makes a very big difference especially when moving up in size when it can get scary. Making...

A very comfortable office style swivel chair with arms and excellent lumbar support, height and tilt adjusted to be correct for me, and it also leans back for when the markets are quiet and I can relax a bit.:) Good seating is very important when you are going to spend so much time sitting in...

My approach to any rapid abnormal unscheduled/unexpected behaviour now - If it's going against me fast pull all the positions immediately, if it is in my favour wait and find out if the move is real or another of those funny spikes caused by erroneous orders - take no new positions until I've...

But - didn't you know - women are from Venus...? Best Natalie

The Elliot functions may work for daily stock charts - I don't know - I'm not an investor... , but it is possitively dangerous for intraday futures. If you are looking for waves 3 and 5, then good luck - as soon as you get there it's re-calculating yet again and you will have almost no chance of...

I would avoid the stockpickers, advisers and especially newsletters like the plague if you want to actually make money. Oh - and don't forget there is 0.5% tax charged (they call it stamp duty - yes - you get taxed for even participating here!) on every share purchase over here in blighty...

I don't watch or listen to news at all. You can tell from the chart when something is happening, but for me the news itself gets in the way of doing something about the reaction. I can always find out later what happened to cause xyz to happen. While it is going on though - the what is less...

You say you have been talking to e-signal. Hmmmmm. Well, between e-signal Dyna order, (maybe some others too) and IB it is possible to totally automate stuff. You need to write .efs files to do it. and yes, trades can be graphically shown on the chart. Kind regards Natalie

If you are hitting liquidity problems reduce some size and diversify? Best Natalie

Maybe I should add them both as a signature line??? LOL Anyway - I don't think the shark has to fight his/her dinner - it's a kind of uneven contest don't you think? - to the shark eating dinner is probably more like squeezing juice out of an orange... :) Best Natalie

Simple common sense. If every time you take a trade- your stop gets taken out and the move then continues in the direction you called it etc., then you just call the trades in the usual way (don't change that bit) but get in where your stop used to be and you end up with winners instead of...

I have a simple method for this. I work with fairly tight stops. I look at the trade as it is presenting, where my stop would be etc. Then look to place the order where my stop would be (providing that my new stop level is far enough away to hold). This is based upon small stops almost always...

ROFL Best Natalie p.s. My biggest rule - The market is always right - don't fight it - go with it...

They are not blowing smoke - take a look at them. Here's something I wrote elsewhere on the subject which seems relevent... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=324225#post324225 best Natalie

How liquid you consider YM to be is going to deped on type of trades you are trying to do and the time of day etc. It is a question with far too much variable in it to simply answer. I suggest you pull up an R/T feed with depth and study it r/t for a couple of weeks with whatever strategies...

Get a decent list of stocks combined with a few decent strategies and be disciplined in working them. As has been said - it's not as easy as 3 years ago and a trader has to be a little more inventive and intelligent about how they do it, because the easy money ain't there any more. But...

1 no problem - (obviously) 5 still easy enough but split (partial) fills from time to time. 100 - there is rarely that much size available at any level and you would be needing to sweep 2 or 3 ticks to get in/out on most trades and would leave yourself open to having your stop taken out. I'm...

hey Scientist, Calm down will ya... LOL Inandlong is a very dear friend who was joking with me and teasing me that's all... There was no malice or illintent in his post. merely some fun. :) But thank you for being so galant and springing to my defence so readily... Kind regards...