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The $300 is one way. To buy/sell 100 contracts. It would be $600 for the round trade. To Buy AND Sell the 100 contracts. Or vice versa. Taxes can vary, depending on your situation. You could safely assume 25%.

If youre wondering about commissions, you could roughly assume $300 oneway per 100 contracts. not sure about slippage and the like, as Ive never attempted that high of a number in futures.

Would love to see you put yourself out there and make some calls real-time William Redneck. I bet they would be quite telling.

my quote was from jun06 currently sitting at 1309.75

youre making profit, RT. its @ 1309.5

if you would take the time to read through the entire thread, you would learn there is useful information here. not to mention, mishwar clearly knows what he is doing.

You should sign up for Strategy Runner @ globalfutures.com. You can get a paper trading account and have all the futures streaming real-time. As well as being able to view history, chart and use indicators.

Hey mishwar, Are you referring to futures now? Regards

Why do you focus on the S&P? Do you have equal success trading other indexs or markets? ...Enjoying your input. Thanks.

hey mishwar, do you have a default stop value that you use?

I like this journal. Keep up the hard work. Youre making some very nice observations. Dont listen to the negative posters, its not your fault they cant make money in the market.

Hey, Just wondering what the most popular commods are that everyone trades... what are the most liquid ones? Personally I like crude oil, nat gas and gold.

You do get whipsawed, but you can help stop some of the loss with a less mechanical approach to it. I mean, you look at it enough, and you can sense patterns. When a trade is looking bad, why wait another X points for your system to officially tell you to get out. You knew where it was...

I love using moving averages. Its alot easier making money riding the trend, then it is trying to predict tops and bottoms.

Interesting post. What are you using to determine your entry? What timeframe do you use, and what are your moving averages set at?

Can anyone recommend a good options calculator that they use? Thanks!

I would like to look at the Dow.

Is there a way to use Strategy Runner on the weekend. I want to do some backtesting but it wont load up. Thanks for any help!

I would consider anything over 50% reliable

Im not looking for 100%. Just wondering if there is something reliable. Sorry, I thought I made that clear.