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Beautiful guys. This is the essence of ET. I am going to try to backtes baker's ideas with Tradestation. The code should be fairly simple. Brandon, you are a TS user also. Give it a go. I am going to presume that the first two hours and the last hour means 9:30 - 11:30 am and 3-4 pm.

Aphie that is inaccurate about the Average Dow P/E being under 9 at 5000. Hostorical Dow P/E averages 14-17. This Dow is still running approx. 21-23%. It is this reason that prognosticators are saying the Dow is 30-34% overvalued. And remember, we almost never see a market fall to fair...

Jack Sandner held cattle so long he was out 2 million bucks. As luck would have it, the cattle rallied and he made it back , breaking evenI think. Maybe even a profit. A trail of tears applies to many endeavors where the potential reward is great. Anyone can go out and get a job at...

Nicely done guys. This thread reminds me of the reason we visit here. CPO summarized well. Profitseer as always I agree with you...this time about the longer the time frame the larger the stop. Concurrently, the larger the profit as well. Using the next shorter and longer time frames as...

Alan Farley of Hardrightedge.com refers to trading in two different time frames as time frame error. I agree with your observation. Farley and others suggest monitoring the time frame just longer and just shorter than the one you are trading. I like this approach as it lets me see where the S/R...

That is my question...do you still get full 10:1 leverage regardless of the account size? When I was inquiring with a firm about initial money, the reply was, if you have 25K then you get full pro leverage. I took this to mean that less than that meant less leverage. I did not ask for a...

Ever notice the absence of shorting strategies in the books written from 1999 and on? Especially the "How to Trade Online" books and Electronic Daytrading books.

Do you still get the "massive" leverage with less than 25K? Of course the price of executing the bullets will be important also. Additionally, Cybertrader's lowest commish is 9.95 and that does not include ECN fees. I suspect that will have to change. IB has distinguished itself with low...

It seems that your observatons would fall into the category of ROC or rate-of-change. When understood, the rate-of-change can be very useful, much as acceleration is the rate of change of speed. Even more refined is the ROC of the ROC. The calculation is the same, only applied to the primary...

I guess you're right about inflation. Of course, the price of staples is not what I usually consider in that group but you are right. As long as the demand for housing is high the prices will not falter. Should there be a dearth of buyers, then watch out. And if a bunch of newly refinanced...

Axis et al, I am terrible with some things, so just go to www.cbsmarketwatch.com. It is an archived article, but it was written the day of or the day after our sell-off on Tuesday. You have to read Thom Calandra today. He and Tomi Kilgore are always right on it. No conjecture. Just...

Just read the first page of this thread again...and I live in one of those sweet middle class naighborhoods, and except for ridiculously creative financing, many of my neighbors should not be here. I hear all the time from them, my payment goes up 500 at the end of the year and taxes are going...

Are "most economists" usually right? That's a good one. Weren't most economists forecasting a good third quarter for this year? Inflation is in check because companies don't dare raise prices. Declining interest rates have allowed for the proliferaton of lower credit card rates, and...

Many many people who can barely afford homes are being qualified for loans. And mostly with 1-2 year ARM's. These are the same people who are going to be laid off next. There is another big round of layoffs coming. That means massive defaults in an already bad loan and credit scenario. The...

I have it figured the other way around. I think the US will drag down Europe. The Europeans have been thru much of this already and are beginning to base and "rebuild." The strength of the euro against the dollar is remarkable. The commercial power of the EEC is formidable if organized; and I...

Anymore, brokers are professional money-gatherers. Nothing more. With the advent of commision-free trading secondary to an annual managment fee, there is no incentive for a broker to churn the acount like the old days. It behooves the broker to NOT trade the account and risk his clients' capital.

TS6...but not "hands down." Both have their pluses and minuses. I think Qcharts is more user friendly. For instance I have three monitors on which I have 5 charts all the same symbol but different time frames, T&S, and Level 2. I'm fairly simple. With Qcharts, when I want to change symbols, I...

The fearlessness of children is wonderful. It comes from a wonderful naivety (sp.) that we all miss sometimes. There is such a spiritual message behind the posts of dad's whose kids actually help trade. But I won't go there now. Trading is fun for me, although sphincter-tightening at...

I think Permabull is pulling the wool... for three reasons: 1) My broker told me...; 2) I'm willing to hold thru {anything}...; 3) I'm absolutely sure his reco is going to pay off. Yeah right.... Besides that, who has a futures broker anymore? :)