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That's for you to research properly. Well outside daily range is one. Don't bet the farm or put all eggs in one basket. You can minimize losses, or at least try to. What's the background eod trend? 4% total account loss on one trade idea is unacceptable to me.

Why did you set yourself up for this easy loss?

The more liquid the market, the more miniscule your orders are relatively until they become insignificant. Sometimes iceberg orders push or stop price some, other times price is pulled to prices where there are more willingness to do transactions. You can find a buffet of patterns, not just one...

It's good to be able to vary position size, as to be more adaptive to price action and chosen risk. For stocks it's good to diversify as you never know with a single stock, even for once in a blue moon intraday. Greed is not good, because it's based on blind hope of handouts and exploitation...

I get my trading signals from trending porn types on .xxx domains. Which porn types signals bull-market and which bear-market is the secret sauce. Yes, trading is hard! But in a different way than most people realize. It was a bitch to train NNs on these so I didn't have to watch all those...

Have any workers been party to writing the deal?

In the beginning I studied market formulas (ie. custom and non-custom indicators) full-time for at least a year, any hour of the day. That was obsessed, and it didn't lead me to anything profitable, but established tools later. As I got break-even, I'm relaxing more and focusing my energy on...

You can use a general-purpose roll-your-own solution when you know exactly what you're going to be doing and needing. Otherwise, it's wise to use something to make rapid prototyping and testing possible. Roll-your-own may be very wasteful if you get bogged down in technical details instead of...

Very few probably have experience in 2 or 3 of these. I only know NT. 1) NT lets you do anything, but within the scope where the code is called. If you need custom beyond Indicator / Strategy-level, you may need to roll your own. I'd recommend using an established platform to prototype on, and...

Caveat of conditional orders, stop losses and general market orders are... Ta ta. No responsibility taken from your broker, the exchange, counter party or anyone, whatsoever. Except if you're a Big Bank of course!

Same source. NP. Interesting and educational info, but not earth shattering regarding trading IMHO. @panzerman: I'll respond once, but not interested in argument. How many years experience you have trading? I had couple of months before I studied Ehler's, and have since moved beyond those...

YES. This is part of their despicable user interfaces. My broker used to have conditional orders. Didn't get mature enough to use them in time, and they removed them in order to dumb down their User Xperience (UX).

I always put a stop loss order before issuing a buy trigger. However, if I do it twice, my broker/exchange may trigger an erroneous short-order on the second one, despite no agreement for short-selling. This is more a question for your broker. If you have short-selling agreement, your...

Zero Phase != Zero Lag Zero Phase as described in your link only makes sense for repainting historical data. If used for signals or trade management, such changes will occur in the past, after the fact. Not too useful for real-time decisions. Zero Phase doesn't make much difference anyways and...

If you're using Notepad, or any other text editor, as a base you're gonna have to make your own trading platform. If you're unsure of even what you're trying to accomplish, I cannot recommend that, as progress will be slow with lots of pitfalls and blind alleys. Two recommendations: Install...

This is sort of where the magic of volume profile breaks down, as with anything else. If important to watch what price does, both in low volume nodes, and high volume nodes, then who's to say you can't watch how price reacts between "nodes"? Especially if/since these area are "zones" anyway...

You can't break a WTF with a WTF, sorry.. ;)

From the principles, you can simulate it yourself and perhaps really learn something. Current price is at all times the level where two parties last agreed to make a transaction. Trading is both directions seeking liquidity for their position changes, for which exchanges (hopefully) are...

Why should the market "respect" your price level?

I believe it's pretty obvious for those who've been in this business for some time, but needs to be clarified: Trend trading is obvious, in hindsight! However, in foresight the obvious long-trades are overcrowded, full of fakeouts, whipsaws and return-to-mean risks, that tend to work against the...