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Yes Bit, I am a broken record :D

There are many pieces to the puzzle here at ET but the only way to solve it is to put the pieces together yourself. Asking others to put it together for you wont really help. In the end, YOU are the one who has to push the buttons and make the decisions. Things have to make sense to YOU.

Bro, I respect you and read all your posts. You are one of the good guys here. Please dont ruin that :)

You have to put your own time in and let your own mind see patterns of what works and what doesnt. The ES moves so fast that you have to get to the point where YOU can analyze many things in a fraction of a sec and make a decision of what to do. The only way to get to the point where this is...

Ha :D

No, I would say most everyone is tuned into how much one could make in the ES but then again the great majority try and put the cart before the horse. Forget trying to figure out how to make 1-3 pts a day but focus of learning the trade it and, given proper time and commitment, the rest will...

1000's of hours of screen time and the willingness to be humble and learn from your mistakes. And then, the courage to apply the correctly learned lessons in a timely fashion when the market dictates. Once you get that down, forget "1-3" pts, focus on being as good as you can be, given the...

Well, I traded there from Aug 2006-Jan2007 and I got my check every month without fail so I have nothing bad to say about them in that respect. There were some software issues for a few weeks but that was the extent of my complaints. I enjoy some aspects of trading from home but I do miss the...

Yeah, I trade at home fulltime now. Not really sure of existing futs firms in the NYC area. I talked to a friend of mine over dinner last night and he told me "Dimension" (where I traded at for like 6 months before switching to futures, in Union Sq area) is rolling out a futures trading...

Ha! Daytrading is gambling.....maybe for some but not those who treat it like a real serious business.

I used to post my daily P&L here for 2005 and 2006. Below is a link to the 2006 P&L thread. I posted there from Jan-mid Nov 2006 everyday. I trade 100% off technical analysis (my own recipe), I dont use any fundamentals in my trading decision making. If you care to go through the entire link...

I did not say TA does not work. I meant that you can greatly improve the probability of your trades working out by understanding the underlying price action of a given technical setup. Ever wonder why some "cup and handle" formations work beautifully and others fail? Looks like a coin flip...

Combine the right interpretation of price action and a classic TA pattern and you'll have yourself a high probability setup. Take the exact same "appearing" TA setup but the wrong corresponding PA and you'll have a setup of low probability. The problem is that most people either dont know how to...

I trade w/ Velocity Futures and it costs me $500 per 1 ES lot. Better margin than IB. For daytrading ES I preferred Velocity over IB. However, IB allows you to trade many more markets. I guess it just depends on what you want to do.

Combine the right interpretation of price action and a classic TA pattern and you'll have yourself a high probability setup. Take the exact same "appearing" TA setup but the wrong corresponding PA and you'll have a setup of low probability. The problem is that most people either dont know how...

well said ST

Nice Sword, I got long at 5100 on the 15:10 bar. Covered half for +5 pts and just covered the rest for +4.5 just a few minutes ago. The way we took out that low, how perfect was that for interpreting the volume?

I knew there was a reason I havent traded with CNBC on in over a year :D

Sorry, I didnt mean to leave out the hybrid guys, part swing part daytrader :)

Im sure all the guys who post daily are daytraders, not every swing trader closes their positions out daily and records a profit or loss.