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If I had the money, I may give it a try. For now, just my wild guess, lol.

If you can push the price 4 points higher, not to mention 4 ticks, the bids will be filled up immediately, you can take your time to close your positions at good prices. I always find that amazing.

When I'm on the right side. :D Just a feeling, maybe I've been wrong more than before. :D

I always feel that es can be manipulated, especially outside the regular trading hours, some people can move the price as they like. And the feeling is getting increasing stronger recently. I also think some smart traders can predict most moves. :D Just for fun, no serious discussions in this...

ES seems to become a lot more trendy in the past several days, even in quiet trading hours. As a day trader, I never take the proverb "trend is your friend" seriously, now I know better. I used to scalp es within a small range, but it doesn't work well with the current market, it's better to...

In myself, can I become a successful trader? Can I make a living in the stock market?

Many thanks for all your very helpful feedback, really appreciated it... will read the replies again and again to understand better. Glad that I posted this thread. Basically I scalp es with KD, volume and average price, I don't know what constitutes a trading system, I rely on feel a lot and...

Someone who lost his mind. :D

$1700 (%6), too much for my small account. It's exactly one month since the first day I traded es on May 11, 23 trading days, the break down P/L: -$1,136 -$569 $510 $185 -$49 $330 $426 $197 $375 -$25 $151 $293 $234 $193 -$295 $348 $110 $352 $195 $172 $156 $93 -$1,726 After the second day I...

Do you guys have a maximum loss for one day? When you hit your maximum loss, you stop trading no matter what. I had my biggest loss by day trading es this Friday, had several chances to get out even or with small loss, but silly me somehow it ended up with my biggest loss ever. I still don't...

http://www.htsc.com.cn One is enough, this is the biggest one unknown as low commission and good online service.

Wow, that's clever, thank you so much! :D

The tax is 0.1%, you only pay for selling. AFAIK, the lowest commission is 0.02% single way, you have to negotiate to get this rate, you can get 0.03% online directly. I don't think the Chinese stock market is open to foreign individuals. But why do you want to trade Chinese stocks? No short...

I like TWS more and more and use it a lot as charting software. In TWS I can open two charts for different tickers, but when I place an order, the two charts will be changed to the ticker I'm about to trade. There is no way I can open two different charts and trade one of them, e.g. if I open...

Thanks for the info, I have only traded es for one month. Yes, you are right, European traders come online at 2 am, there will be a drastic change (usually drop), a good chance to hit a home run. :D

I mainly trade es outside the regular trading hours, it's really slow, with one contract you can keep P/L under $100 very easily. Trading SPY is a good idea, when I want to protect my profit but don't want to call it a day, I will trade SPY instead.

Time stop is a great idea, I've never heard of it before. So, after a certain period of time (like 30 minutes), you'll close your position? es had a sharp decline at 8:30AM today, I closed my long position less than one minute before it, I thought how lucky I was to have avoided it. With time...

Another typical day: earned $350 with es and lost $100 to stocks, I stopped trading before I gave it all back like yesterday. I have decided to trade es exclusively for the time being. Gave it more thought, I realized es and stocks were quite different, with es I usually hold only several...

Great advice, thanks! I kinda do this with es.

Sorry, I'm talking about day trading. Before I started trading es last month (in pre-open hours), I use oversold/avg down strategy to trade stocks, which worked very well. But after I trade es, my stock trading started to lose. I think it's because I'm not that focused, often I have to lose...