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nd, when you say trading buddies....where do you trade at.....a rental prop desk?

dejavu - Just curious... How do you go from scalping 5 ticks trying to keep a 100% win rate to suddenly having +300-400 tick days? one trade was 8 lots: 8x.50=400 ticks=$4,000 either the failed up move at 81.84 had an easy 50 ticks short, or off the bottom you had an easy .50...

up in ah session, you often see that weak as hell during rth, and boom in asia up, and then starts losing some gains during europe, and then weak as hell in the us next day.... we have been stuck in this area for the meat of trading for awhile....forget the runnup to 88, before that we were...

•HP raises 2011 outlookReuters(Mon 5:56PM EST) wow, every dog has its day, nice after hours pop:)

yep, sometimes it is indeed to low to short for that given trade, it all depends:)

nt only works with the standalone platform, not an option for me.................fidelity active trader pro platform was nice, but no futures when i was there...............ib is complex, but if you can wade through some of the confusion it works fine.....and I actually like it better than tt or...

I cannot get the hotbuttons on bt to all be on the same key as the parent order, so the best solution for me, using beta platform, config hotbuttons on the bottom of chart for bracket, another for just stop, and a couple others that i use like trades, etc, and just move booktrader slightly up...

Thanks Picasso I understand the adjusted config better as a result. I am trying to config hot buttons and not hot keys, so I actually can get around some of booktrader`s pattent stuff, and or limitations---so that i can utilize the global configs with the touch of a button like on...

well I have never really used stops in my trading so this will be quite a research project. In how to apply 5 and 7 point stops in places to find out I am wrong on various setups and save money. For eaxmple, the market sells off to 81.50 and then retraces to 81.88, and then slowly works it...

Friday, I set up some hotbuttons on booktrader to click on pre-configured stops, and then another button for pre-configured brackets---haven`t fully tested as the market was closed but it appears promising, you just go to config, booktrader, hot buttons, and create new hot button, and then...

ND, Lets say the high is 84.50, and you decide to set up your breakout trade when price is 83.85 early in the opening, so you put a buy stop at 84.51, I assume you do this in booktrader? But the question is do you have to wait til your order is hit, and then manually enter a 15 point sell...

Thanks, one of the struggles for me since I am reducing scalping trades from my new strategy going forward for now is the following: Your 6 winners for 20plus = 154 points for an average target of 25.6 The problem is in what my target should be and sticking to it for the trade to...

I went to bed last night late, but before the announcement was made, read later it was after the asian markets were closed, it will be interesting how Asia , and China reacts to the news---bad reaction - crude gets hit sunday night, good reaction and crude and the other commodities rally. How...

Traders are naturally an intelligent, intellectual group of people. They got where they are today in part or whole by processing information. Logic & reason. If you are stumped by a puzzle or task, just gather more information and sift out the facts. So they approach trading the same way...

That is an interesting way of approaching trading: Its like always playing AK the same way in poker, instead of playing it different ways depending upon your analysis of this given situation.

attention to what the charts are telling you to do Its not exactly that simplistic: For example CL is in a nice uptrend at the open tonight: do you take a nice profit, or do you wait for a trendline break? What constitutes a trendline break? The only way you know you have made the correct...

Yeah, just has been a frustrating 4 days of trading for me: For example, I analized the prvious reports and reached the conclusion that we would have another bullish inventory report because of several factors, so went long into the report, got the report i was wanting, couldn`t of asked for...

The Psychology of these markets are crazy, just 4, yes "4" days ago, we are going to have runaway inflation, and crude is going to 100, and now you start seeing a bunch of 'analysts" coming out saying inventories are too big and we are going below 80, have you seen more doom and gloom reports...

The only thing slightly bearish is the suching inventory went up, which gave the bears just enough ammo to continue to piggy back on the rollover effect......that all in all makes 3 pretty bullish inventory reports......but there is major gaming going on.......the kind that is connected to...

i missed the api numbers today, anybody have them/ thanks