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I visit only two trading sites on a regular basis ---- this one and tradingmarkets.com. Tradingmarkets has excellent commentary, a battery of proprietary indicators that are often helpful to me, and good boards with real-time interaction with other index futures traders. Elite trader is more...

Agree with everything Airspeed said. I trade only e-minis and use TradeStation 2000i and eSignal data feed, and consider that to be the optimal combination as of now. *Easy Language* is a bit of a misnomer ----- it took me a few months to get fluent in it, but its capabilities are...

Interesting question and series of posts. In my opinion, there is probably a slighly greater likelihood of a down day at this juncture than there would normally would be. The market isn't like a coin toss in one crucial respect ---- most of its individual participants do have memory of what...

The top 4 components of the Nasdaq 100 are: Microscoft: 9.68% Intel: 5.06% Qualcomm: 4.67% Cisco: 4.33% Combined, the four of them comprise nearly 25% of the entire index, so both singly and together they are generally good proxies for the index as a whole.

I'd strongly recommend E-Signal sraymond, have used it for a year on ES with no problems at all. Check out the E-Signal thread on the board as well. You may pay a little extra, but in futures trading especially, you just can't afford to give up any reliability, accuracy, speed or completeness...

Interesting question. I'd say appropriate time frames depend on three major factors: 1) the instrument(s) you're trading, 2) the specific methods you're using to trade it/them and 3) your own trading comfort zones. I trade only e-mini index futures, using big 3m and 5m charts, with indicators...

I'm a professional bridge player as well as a trader of index futures, and it's a fact that probably half of the top 25 or so bridge players in America today also trade futures or options for a living. Having a great facility for numbers, a superb grasp of probability, and the undefinable...

Excellent post, vvv ---- agree on all points. In very fast markets (i.e. just after FOMC announcements) e-minis are hyper-volatile compared to the big S&P and generally should not be traded at those moments because in those cases (and only in those cases) fills will be especially bad. But...

Kirk --- I agree totally that different approaches do work for different people, and I'm constantly amazed to see that in action. I know futures traders who often seem to hold the opposite position from me, yet we both make money on the day (different time frames and length of trades are...

Personal opinion from a long-time S&P day trader ----- As Kirk correctly points out, any long-term test of virtually any stochastic-based methodology will show large losses. Because that's the case, why use stochastics at all, even with filters that can improve them a bit? There are much more...

Strongly concur with recommendations for e-signal. I daytrade index futures and inaccurate data, any lag, and less than near-perfect reliablilty are simply unacceptable. E-Signal meets those criteria with flying colors ----- have used them for nearly a year now with no problems at all.