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I agree with Aaron. That too has been my experience. However, I think that there is nothing wrong with adding more leverage to what is historically a profitable entry, especially if you are getting an even better entry price. However, if your historically profitable system tells you to flip...

My advice is forget about books, as has been said. What you might find helpful is coding some easylanguage scans (with Tradestation) to run over historical data with the criteria you choose. For example, as few weeks ago I was interested in validating for myself the various volatility patterns...

On the contrary, very pretty. Shorted nq at 1058.5 in the am. It has been a while since I made so much in one day.

Well, if you are truely not guessing or hoping, then you have my respect. Consider yourself a saint. However, I highly doubt that you are not guessing and hoping. I have never met or even heard of a daytrader capable of that feat.

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get an inversion table and hang by you feet. It is good for the circulation and might give you a different perspective on your trading...

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ouch indeed... With the mini contract that kind of adverse movement isn't too unreasonable. There have been many similar moves on the index futures as well, over the last year or so. I guess what is really the most important factor to me, is how well these markets trend. In my experience...

Who cares about license plate readers, I just can't wait until they put those GPS chips in all cell phones nationwide... as has been mandated. Then you are talking big brother.

ahh, ok. I was thinking that we were talking about the mini-sized a/c/e contract which has a multiplier of $500 per point, the graph appears to be something else. Maybe the big contract?

with the bond futures that is about a $1000 change/per contract in just over fifteen minutes! :eek: am a assuming the multiplier right ($500 per whole point)?

ok that is something of a relief, if those are ten minute bars my systems might have been able to flip in time. I key off 1min bars.

Thanks for the chart Jay... Ok maybe I had better hold off on trading the bond futures:eek: Could/has anything like that happen(ed) in the FX markets with a common currency like the yen or dollar? It probably depends on the liquidity, but I would imagine a currency can only move so fast...

You have me REALLY curious now. Please explain...

can someone who has a/c/e charts post the 30 year note for the few days after the fed announced they would no longer be issuing 30 year notes. I heard that some bond traders were royally f**ked by this unexpected fed announcement. I would like to see what kind of reaction there was in the...

Darkhorse, you are a trip! Don't get me wrong here though, I think you are an interesting trip:D

Fundamentally, all trading is trend following, so why bother predicting the market. Investing is dead.

my advice is tread very, very carefully... Intuitively, your plan seems like a recipe for financial disaster. my $0.02

mktman, here one way you could theoretically do a trailing stop in EL. This would be an alternative to the built in trailing stops. if CLOSE > ENTRYPRICE + CUTOFF then begin if POSITIONPROFIT < PERCENT*MAXPOSITIONPROFIT then sell next bar at market; end; Think about what...

I kick the cat:D