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I am currently holding long crude oil at a loss and short copper at a gain. I am trying to dump the crude oil contract, limit 124.49. I have a limit order to short 4 bonds at 114.29. If it doesnt catch later today I will short at market. I am shortign this market because bot the trend and ML...

Hello, My name is Ashan and this is will be a snippet of my daily trading journal, mainly the trades I make and why. BACKGROUND I am a swing trader who trades commodity futures. I started a couple days before December 07, which means I’ve been trading for about 7 months. I started...

Thanks, the only issue is I position trade and so I look at daily charts with have no time correlation to the bars. If you could figure out a way to make this work on a daily chart I will gladly send your payment.

I am looking for a way to spot certain bars on my charts. Assuming that the most recent bar is bar #1, I want an indicator that draws a light colored , dashed line vertically through bars: 3, 10, 16, 40, 49. I have the main price window as well as a separate window for an MACD, and I would...

I am a position trader (interday) and like the diversity of futures. Why are stocks easier to day trade?

Off of the start of each new day. Anyways thanks for the replies!

I am trying to make an indicator that will highlight the 15th and 49th bars but have no idea how to do this and the DYO support page is not very good. Anyone know how this can be done? Thanks

It is an imperfect sentiment indicator (volatility) so I use it for what it is. I use many background indicators in addition to my TA. I remember there was a discussion on the VIX before that I can't find so I really don't see the need to keep this a secret.

I'm trying to figure out how to read the VIX for interday signals. So someone tell me if this is accurate: -If the VIX is IN LINE with the size of the daily move, then these is NO SIGNAL -If the VIX is SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER than the daily move, than this means the markets are volatile...

All joking aside, what's a decent news source? I suppose I could leave CNBC on but TV is a distraction for me.

After today I've decided it's not a good idea to block out the news from my trading. What news sources do you guys follow? I'm most interested in news that could rock the whole market since I trade indexes.

I was short 2 contracts at 1360 and expected some more down this week but wow. Never expected this. Here's to hoping for another 100 points lost this weekend haha.

Is there any software that will playback an entire trading day without requiring a feed to catch the data all day? (maybe it has its own downloadable intraday data or something like that) I trade futures BTW.

Anyone know the reason for why futures get the significant 60/40 blended rates? I thought of a few ideas: -Futures contracts are continuously cycled so that buying and selling contracts is necessary (but then why not require a minimum holding period? -Futures are used by the commercials...

IMO a college degree offers many benefits other than the career doors it opens. Of course it's what you make of it, but if I was hiring and the choice was between a college grad and a non-grad, the choice is easy. As far as having bullets whizzing past your head, seriously what does that...

Not 100% sure but I believe the 80k exemption only applied to earned income (trading income is capital gains, not earned)

Which indexes are highly traded that are outside the US? Thanks

Well for now I'm covered by my family medical insurance plan and I don't plan on a wife/kids for a long time. I obviously need to read more on this so I ordered Green's tax book for traders. But from what I have read here, there are no tax benefits to incorporating. Incorporating will...

I checked the greencompany website and found this: The IRC 475F2 election is the trader status. So that settles it, I would be better off filing as an investor.

-I trade 1256 contracts exclusively -Trading is my sole income source -I do not day trade. I position trade with the timeframe of 1-15 days (most often 2-10 days) For tax purposes can I be considered a trader?