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AllenZ, thanks for starting this thread. I'm posting this mostly so I'll get notified when you post. But I thought I would say I spent one of the free days in your chat room sometime last year even before I had a trading account and you did very well calling moves that day. I'm planning to...

Is there any problem with after hours liquidity on the Globex? Is it as easy to close a long/short e-mini position at the market as it is during the day?

Does anybody use quotetracker to chart the e-mini? If so, where do you get your data feed? If anybody has tried quotetracker and other services for futures I would appreciate any comparisons.

Count me as one who appreciates how the site works. I think your solution to sponsors is perfect. If anybody disagrees, try reading the nytimes or washingtonpost and other free sites online and see how many pop ups you have to deal with. (I hope this doesn't give you any ideas, Baron). Plus...

Janko, I'm just in my second week of trading e-mini. My method is basically the same as bronks, except I look at NDX chart instead of QQQ and throw in CNBC ticker to help get a feel for what's going on, but mute works best for the TV most of the time. They show indicators periodicially, but...

aaa, sadly, I am without a system. I just look at the CNBC ticker and if the S&P, dow and nas are going up I go long, if they're going down I go short. If they're doing neither or they're mixed I should just sit here, but often times (too often) I just guess, which is lot worse than waiting...

Is there a fast way to enter and move stops on IB? An automatic trailing stop would be nice, but IB support says you can't do it that way. For what it's worth, I seem to lose one tick on market orders, but then sometimes I have to re-enter limit orders at a higher/lower price, so I'm still...

It looks to me like I can get IQ feed on quotetracker with futures, and I guess than means e-mimis and the big ones, for $40 a month. I only want tick charts a few basic indicators. I do my orders through IB. Does anybody know of cheaper futures charting package? I can't real tell from...

def, since you are monitoring this thread, I thought I would post here. It would be good if IB offerered simultaneous buy and stop orders and automatic trailing stops. Cyber offeres these functions so it's technologically possible. In particular, this features would be good for trading the...

Great post. Thanks. I stated trading nq last week and finished down for the week due to over trading and not cutting losses. My worse losses were twice as bad as yours. Would you mind telling me how wide a stop you generally use? My biggest losses came when I ignored my mental stops, but...

Other than the Trading Diaries, I don't see anyting on RealMoney that you can't get at free sites like MarketWatch and Money Center, etc, and I get tired of reading about what great stuff you could get for another hundred a month, plus even greater stuff yet, I guess, from RealMoney Pro for...

I don't get the part about having a backup broker to get out of a trade. How can having another broker get you out of an order you placed with IB?

Thanks for the tip on the indicator stocks, Savage-Yoda. I just started trading NQ this week, not particularly successfully but I knew it was going to be tough with the low volume. I've been using the QQQ, SMH and TXX as indicators, but I think those stocks you mentioned could be a little more...

There are many reasons a stop loss should be used with caution. If you've had a good stock for long time you can trigger the stop on a bad market day and incur taxes at a time when you don't want to do that. From what I've seen most good stocks come right back up after a fast melt down...

And believe it or not, English is my first language.

I quit using mechanical stop losses became someone always seems to take my measly one or two hundred shares at or near the low of the day. I think there a lot of small-lot traders and when big buyers wants to get the a lot of shares they find a way to soak up all the small lots. And if you set...

Before anybody hijacks this tread blasting Don Bright, I'd like to say I appreciate reading his posts on this board and look forward to attending the Bright workshop if I can (free intros work for me, then I can pay if I see value). This is not an endorsement for Bright or their trading methods...

Seeking comments/ratings on trading courses or seminars you've taken, either live or online. I've done thread searches on this subject, but I thought I would see if I could get something going in one thread.

Good luck, Threei, there might be a market for your book, especially if you can do anything with the futures and options markets.

Anybody know of a recent book that covers tape reading?