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read the same stuff as me. And more about financial markets seen from the physics perspective can be found by searching the Web for 'econophysics'. Just my 2 cents...

Not in 3 weeks, but in over a month. Also, France had more time to get prepared for the attack, unlike Poland. At least 6 more months. Yet another reason why Poland lost the war to Hitler so quickly was an attack by the Soviet forces that helped Hitler by binding some Polish troops in the East...

As far as I know, YM does not trade in the pit, but I can be wrong. Yes, it is CBOT. The slippage is due to the low liquidity, lower than in ES, so you cannot always get prices you want when the exchange computers match your order with the prices. In ES this is much more likely, greater...

For me the slippage for stop orders is the difference between my intended entry/exit and the fill. It is not so uncommon to get a zero slippage defined this way for stop orders in ES. In fact, most of the time you get a zero slippage in ES for stop orders, at least from my experience. But YM is...

I knew that. Now, I was asking for more specific data regarding the slippage on stop orders that I use more often than other orders. OK, I have made enough trades by now to have some idea what the slippage in this case might be. The most common is 1-3 YM pts, but at times you can get even 5...

Examples of results and applications to particular issues would be enough for me. Charts would be nice, but not so necessary, at least for me.

OK, I believe that this might a right thread to ask this question: why do some people start hedge funds? Could those who have already done that share their thoughts on this, please? Thanks...

Stalin is not a product of the Soviet Union and Einstein is not a product of Western Europe. Both are products of the same human race. Don't forget that Hitler was Western European. That did not make him much different than Stalin, did it? Yes, the curtain was ironic.

in one's system and that means also that you do not think in terms of individual trades but in terms of statistics. As Stalin once said: 'the death of an individual is a tragedy, but the death of millions is statistics'. With trading it's pretty much the way around, individual trades don't...

Cathy, I am not trading it yet, only papertrading and have not decided yet which version of it to use for real trading. Anyway, one version (ver1) does not trade during the midday (11:30-14:30) and so it takes fewer trades than the version that trades during that time (ver2). Ver1 takes 5-6...

This depends on your system. I am now papertrading an ES system that sticks to the 3 and 6 pt targets or otherwise exits when it reverses. Similar to the Netpicks.com mechanical trading system, in principle, because I am not familar with their system in detail. They have made their targets...

Any examples of how it worked for you in the past?

Mental blockages can be tough at times, especially for discretionary trading, when you trade mechanically, it's a bit easier, I think.

True, almost any system that relies on basically one breakout will fail from time to time. I know this from some other system of this kind that I studied. It did very well in 2002, but only broke even in 2001.

but the market activity might have shifted more towards the midday which could be news driven. At least that's what I am observing. More trending periods during the midday, say 11:30-14:30 EST.

No, there are two of us...:D

in the morning according to my reliable sources that use TS6. Know nothing about today.

It all depends on your timeframe. Choppinnes is not an absolute concept. Scalpers can tell you that they thrive in such an environment and a new system of mine is doing extremely well in it too, although it does have bad days, but that's understandable. You need to adjust in order to survive...

Or at least it was in the morning. Yesterday, the system that I am now testing made 17 ES pts per contract trading all the day, but today it is down about 10 pts per contract. I noticed that middays are more profitable than usual the last 2-3 weeks, some bigger trends now start after 11 AM...

Of course, Jack, you are not in my league. I am glad you finally got it. You thought that by using academic vocabulary you hardly have any idea about you can claim to be in the same league with someone who has a Ph.D. in the discipline you abuse so badly to impress your followers? Come on, who...