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every night at precisely 12 am est - i have all kind of connection issues for 5 - 20 minuntes. Short beeps, connection color flashes from green to red to yellow.

wow! http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080316/markets_global.html?.v=1

the bounce was most likely because of the rate cut announcement - a sunday night special!

nevermind - you win "grouchy" old trader.

You are absolutely correct - pg 287 he clearly states he shorted gold at $675. However, the point I was making is still valid.

They are playing futures and if your pockets are deep enough you CAN average down and come out on top. Remember a farmer is NEVER going to sell you Wheat for zero, so if you know that commodities will never got to zero and you got enough money you keep adding to your losing position until a...

from the article quoted above Sometimes the blood is your own But Mark Mobius reported in his book Passport to Profits that there is a second part to Rothschild's quote -- one that is perhaps even more impressive and intellectually inspiring. Buy when there's blood in the streets, "even if...

Baron Rothschild, the quintessential opportunist, advised that the best time to buy is when there is "blood in the streets." So.... who's buying?

its not you and its not just the ES - have a look at Gold, corn, wheat, soybeans, coffee, sugar, not to mention forex, ER2, NQ, J7 etc, etc.

as an update - i tried to get out with a stop that was blown thru by 17 ticks then used a market order and was exited from the trade 38 ticks from where I desired. I think I'll stick to what I know - forex on IB.

well after reading this post I decided to give the CME futures a go. I usually trade the usd.jpy - so why not try the j7 contract (mini-yen). Well, the actuall forex just had a 100pip move and the cme futures had a 15 tick move - am I missing something? also - liquidity sucks on this contract!

how do you trade a 70¢ range with price gaps galore??? bananas!!!

I can't speak for oil, but you can absolutely forget about silver! Even with the mini- contract you will be instantly stopped out on just about every trade. It is not very liquid so there are always gaps in the bid/ask and frequently they are over $25. You might be able to pull it off in mini...

"be a student, not a follower ... formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune" - James Rohn Some things you just got learn on your own.

isp problems from traders in different cities? please, something was wrong with TWS. no problems posting to this bd. but all is well now

going on 1 hr here in Chicago

I am not able to log into trader workstation - is it just me?

I had a friend who had a terrible divorse who once told me that it would have been cheaper to have paid for some pussy on the side than to actually have an affair. Divorse = 50% of your net worth Prostitute = $5500 All depends on how much your worth. As always, just my 2¢

Investor and Trader are two very different beasts. Pick one.

I use autotrader software which has a nice scale out feature. Say you enter with 3 lots, you then enter your stop loss, your target price and the number of contracts you want to scale out. The software then treats each lot as an individual trade moving the stop loss to the take profit of the...