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I agree. I decided to stop intra-day trading it. There are other markets that are better for intra-day.

Dont worry, Bluestreak knows what "they" are going to do before even "they" know. Maybe he will be so inclined to give us traders a little hint. If i had to take a guess, he would suggest that the downside is more of likely move then the upside, call it a hunch:)

I currently use Tradestation and for the most part am very happy with it. I did use Futuresource and Esignal, and I would stay away from any product that is owned by Interactive Data Corporation. This includes esignal, futuresource, qcharts ( I think thats all of them). Esignal was by far...

What do you trade? I trade index futures and they have been pretty good these past couple days.

Anyone else notice that the volume for the QM is dropping off? Looking at a daily chart, it appears that October and November were good, but late November and now in December the volume is pathetic. It is 11:30amEST and only about 9400 contracts have traded. Just curious if anyone has an...

If you know what "they" are going to do before they do it, then you should be making tons of money. Sounds like you are complaining. I wish i knew what "they" are going to do before they do it. I sure as hell wouldn't be complaining, I would be be incredibly happy.

I apologize for that, wont happen again:)

What I dont get is that most of the people on elite traders are day traders. What is everyone's obsession to calling which way the market is going to go for the day? Intra-day you can have trends that go up and down that are very much trade able. Just because you believe the market should go...

I know for a fact that the Dax and Eurostoxx has a continuous symbol ( @FDAX, @FESX). Not sure if the others have a continuous symbol. If not you are going to need to know the whole symol ( eg FDAXH07). Also they roll when the other US futures roll. From the last time this happened the Dax...

I'm just curious, this $450 number; is that per contract or just a total?

Dont try and rationalize the markets, its just going to drive yourself crazy. I never have cnbc or any other news provider on. Just trade what you see and worry about why it moved later(if you still care). Now thats not to say that I dont know when economic releases are, because I do. All...

If you do, i think it is, 10 round trips a month Tradestation will be free. The only thing you would have to pay for is the data feeds and of course commissions. I don't think there is anything out there where you can get charts and the data for free.

I have books by both and I found that Nison's were much better better then bigalows. Just my opinion though. Like its been said earlier, if you look enough you can find all on the internet. If you do decide to get the books check ebay before any other source. You can usually find some good...

Nison is said to be the the first person to bring candlestick patterns to the west. Its the traditional hammers, gravestones, etc. I believe bigalow uses some of those patterns as well as some as he has come up with. I cant think of what he uses off the top of my head though. I think...

The last time I used them was about 7-8 months ago. During the time I used esignal, it seemed like everyday something was wrong with the data. Either slow or non-existant. It was especially true during fast moving markets such as Fed days. During those times price would litterally be 1-2...

I switched from esignal to TS because esignal was even worse. Especially during fast moving markets. So I'd be careful

The data is not even close of being in real time. Right now im showing the EC at 1.3254 yet the actual price is 1.3265. I tried refreshing the data now its just "waiting for data". Serves me right. I mentioned in another thread that TS has been stable and reliable lately. Looks like i...

To be fair, I think all data providers have problems, so i dont think its justified to just pick on TS. There Euro Fx data was messed up and they fixed it, there QM data was slow and they fixed it. All other futures are fine. So i expect the same from there Eurex feed.

TS rolled out Eurex data over the weekend after a long long long time of people asking for it. How it acts in real time, not sure as I just subscribed to it and havent seen it live yet. Cant trade through TS but its good for the guys like me that just use TS for the charts.

Use what works for you. I find that bar charts dont tell me what i need to know, so I use candles alot. A lot of traders would say that using candles are crazy. But screw it, it's working for me so who cares what they say. If line charts work for you, more power to you. If it makes you...