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I know it is the divergence that causes the program trading. Let me see if I can make my question a little clearer with a hypothetical situation. Let's say hl camp fair value is 2. The spread is three. Program trading kicks in. Lots of green arrows on stocks, stocks are being bought. But...

My understanding is that program trading is buy/selling the index futures and selling/buying the underlying stocks. It would seem to me that it would cause the stocks and futures to move in opposite directions, but my observation is that when the stocks are going up, for whatever reason, the...

jboydston, to echo stkcowboy, incredible work ethic, and thanks very much for what you are doing. I am too much of a rookie to critique your trading but I will post anythng I find that I think might be useful to others as I am learning. stkcowboy: with current volatility, two or more twenty...

bronks, I agree it is hard to make money without taking risks, but you can also lose money very quickly when you are undercapitalized. I started trading the same time as you and I have blown out twice on 4k accounts. Yesterday I had an NQ position go 10 points against me in the blink of an...

Avalance, I watch the BB but can't trade much with it intraday. Eminis almost never go outside the band, I can't tell if they're going to "walk the band" or reverse. So it gives me something to look at, but if you can give any interpretation clues I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for the replies, removes a little worry from my life at least. I am saving the e-mail statements already, dumb luck there. It's a nice to know record keeping for futures is much easier than stocks. Now if it was just a litttle easier to make money trading I'd really be set.

thanks AAA. I'm obviously new to the e-mini trading, but I like it. Does what you said mean I can deduct commissions and then use net profit/loss in paying taxes? I use an accountant, but I'd like to give him complete info in as simple a format as I can. He gets paid plenty already, but I'm...

astrikos has a great free page with lots of info on prem, trin, vix and much more that updates frequently . Are there things on the paid site that are superior to the free site for e-mini trading? But I've also noticed that the numbers can be different than what I get from my brokers and I...

Anybody got any idea of what I can use to keep track of my e-mini day trading for tax purposes. It would be nice to download from IB to something I could make a schedule D with. I'll also check with IB, but I don't have a download option in the statement/download section, and I was wondering...

This web site has a good description of a standard breakout trading system. It's for educational purposes only. I am posting it here as informatilon for people like me, new to trading and didn't really know what "trading system" meant when I first started reading ET. I have not tried to...

Does anybody know of a free or low cost charting service that you will give you average true range on s&p and nas 100? (spx, ndx, e-mini). I've looked at a look of sites, and atr doesn't seem to be included as a standard feature, but it looks like it's used a lot for trading system set ups.

IB had a message that globex was experiencing internal problems in addition to a separate message that IB was having problems, but the quotes were changing while Globex was unavailable and a scalp trade I was trying to do went from decent scalp to small lost. IB didn't post a message when the...

Does anybody use power etrade for charting the e-mini? I trade with IB, but I'm using quotetracker for charting and I would like access to some different indicators than they provide. Power etrade is $30 a month if you don't trade frequently, which is an expensive thing to do with etrade, but...

E-mini trading is really a game of chance. Globex not available at times (luckily no serious damage but I couldn't exit when I wanted to), and then that huge spike just after I sold my last short. Casinos are starting to look conservative compared to e-mini trading.

me, I just want trailing stops. Simultaneous entry would be nice too, but I hate to ask for too much.

What's S/R?

Thanks, Puffy, I just took at look at the livecharts that you get when you register at their site. FYI, have you ever looked at quotetracker? I'm able to get e-mini quotes on it through etrade and from what I see I think its easier to look at than livecharts, but I don't know about time and...

Puffy, I see you are using LiveCharts for e-minis. Is that with real time quotes? I am under the impression that you have to use the Qchart level packages to do real time e-minis with quote.com. In fact, that's what they told me in an e-mail. My charting needs are pretty simple, so I don't...

Oops, sorry. I just realized you were talking about wireless. Haven't tried that.

I've been using a Linksys four port router for about two weeks. It was about as easy as pluging in a telephone and I've never had any problems with IB or any other sites., except IB is a little weird if I try to have it running on two computers at the same time.