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you are in a good situation now... you may put a stop at your entry, or somewhere to take profit... already at 650, soon 500 (or back to 1000)

yup you're right, was really hard to hit that buy button, but the very next second it was already up, and i had a very tight stop. wasn't the only trade, but the only one i let run a long way. also went short on the way down at 900 and closed part at 865 and 804 but most of it got stopped...

no more VOW available to short at IB. they were available yesterday and this morning, but no more now. made some nice trades in vow: BOT 100 VOW false Stock (XETRA) 655.000 IBIS 09:16:40 29.00 SLD 50 VOW false Stock VW (VOW) 729.405 CHIXDE 09:18:34 29.00 SLD 25 VOW false Stock VW...

PPT probably left the office 10 minutes before close

if you see 7@855 / 855.25@ 8328... don't you suspect something wrong, with more than 8k offered...

when does trading start again? 8 ET? of course when ES up, but i mean when it stays limit down

biggest move i have ever seen in eur/chf. 1.50-> 1.456... they all flee into safe swiss francs...

german dax falls below previous low, and looses almost 7% by now... us futures -6%... no resistance...

you know what... i think they are right now buying back shares over the market...

why this low open? merger failed, but they buy back 50 mio at 9.20$ next week... looks like an easy arb for the big guys... why is it trading at these levels... 7.50 $ , open below 7$ (ok it went up big since open but still?). probably because you can't be sure you are able to sell your...

you misunterstand the question carloskar.. he means a strategy were you win most of the time, and loose only very few times, but if you loose you loose big.. i wouldn't trade such a strategy i prefer it the way carloskar means... lots of small losses / break even, and then from time to...

private retail trader in zurich as well (fdax, fsmi, es, stocks eu and us)

i hope same applies to you

and if you change that random entry to a momentum based entry things become even easier

right, but in current market you learn 10x faster than normal, cause you get 10x the action... and market is sometimes sort of inviting... i mean there were setups that were pretty obvious, at least with some experience.. let's say you took random entries with random short or long, and then...

you are right, didn't spot that... nice one

ah i was a bit too fast.. he actually left again: ________ (copy from his blog) Monday, October 06, 2008 Reflection on the Stock Market Crash and the end of my Trading Career The VIX went above 58. The DOW was down over 800pts. I pretty much knew we were going to crash today. But...

here is his blog, his still trading: http://highprobability.blogspot.com/ the entry after the blow up: -31k, Goodbye Good Bye.........I hope you all have a nice life. I need to be to work in 2 hours, and I can't manage this position, I have to sell out. About 40k in 2...

look on the top left: high probability trading... lol, great (99% or what), and what do you do if the 1% event happens... see video.. shouting fuck and hold on to it... great strategy.. (hm, that's probably about the same the lehman guys and others were doing, but they got their bonuses...

jup, that 0.75 slippage was when a big market order hit the bid.. but as i said usually no slippage or 0.25 max (0.25 happens quite often the past 2 weeks). i refer to stop orders. the 0.75 happened at an even level, dont remember but maybe 980... when i had a stop at 979.75 obviously there...