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likewise, we could opine that the equity traders do not care about the boffins who trade currency markets for any duration of hold

Save your assumed kudos... he ain't excelling, no danger of that. As for volatility being down? sure it is, to the degree of 2005 - 2006. Those years weren't the greatest either, but they were still easier to trade because price action was less v-turn drastic back then. ES total ranges...

Markets aren't "ruined" per se... but they are nowhere near bountiful as before Price movement has changed dramatically in several ways. First of all, average daily ranges have contracted to half or less from years past. That's one major difference now than before... overall intraday ranges...

what good is "transparency" when price action goes nowhere? volatility and volume are the lifeblood of short-term traders. where are volatility and volume levels now compared to years past?

From 9:35:01 eastern standard time, the ES "roadmapped" exactly where it was going to trade today... hours ahead of the fact, and objectively measureable for everyone alike to see :cool:

Donna, I misread (skimmed) your actual use of the term "gifts" as trader attributes. In that case I agree... some people already possess certain personal traits or attributes that you labeled as "gifts" but it's all semantics. Those characteristics are vital for success. Nobody with zero...

There is no such thing as a "gifted" trader. Some have more natural aptitude than others, but everyone begins at the same place: totally clueless about markets and themselves in the market under live fire. A veteran trader is akin to a veteran dog trainer or horse trainer. There is no college...

The terms "dedication" and "three months" are a collosal oxymoron. Anyone just getting started with CL cannot begin to understand its price behavior in that blink of an eye, let alone begin to seriously trade effectively. Which is exactly why so many aspiring "traders" in this thread like...

to my eyes there are enough different buttons on that dome to safely land small aircraft with. Like I said a bunch of times now in various threads... anyone used to the T4 platform, it's fine. Those of us with one-click experience since 2005 with NT? Different story. The platform itself ain't...

... and if you want to prestage an order to enter on pullbacks, said order will change price values as the market moves i.e. CL trades 96.00 and you want to sell pullback 96.10 > stop 96.25 CL trades down to 95.84 and your prestaged order moves to 95.92 sell on its own. Watched that happen...

ES: $500 per contract NQ: $500 per contract 6E: $1,000 per contract CL: $2,000 per contract Those are general guidelines to what current market action has been thru the past several months. Subject to change = expand as volatility increases across the board.

#1: You can trust I am not the type to blame my trade performance on the platform, the day or any factor other than myself. #2: If you had to rank futures markets on volatility and noise by the highest, the average and the lowest, which would be the three you would select? ie: Craziest...

imo CL is by far the most unforgiving symbol of breaks in discipline. Let down your guard even once... pull stops or add to losers or whatever else, and CL will steamroll you dead right then & there. imo it is impossible to successfully trade CL on a consistent basis with any real outside...

T4 is not horrible for order execution... but it is cumbersome for fast-market operations to those accustomed to simpler. That variable can definitely make the difference in results for a day, because many days there are just one or two brief sweet spots for profit, and the remainder is no edge...

You actually had a 2-lot position from entry to exit that went +475 cents = $4.75 per each single contract? When exactly did that supposedly happen? CL ain't made an intraday swing that large in forever. Let's see a screenshot, or it absolutely 200% never happened.

My last "trade" for the morning was long CL 86.20 zone which then remained locked open as price went to 87.20 highs and then signaled new short trades at 86.80 for the trip back down. Meanwhile, I could not log on or in. Technology... the bane of mankind! Back to work tomorrow :)

Why would anyone's students be tearing anything up? Are you tearing it up, or is the sound of crickets coming from your keyboard?

Monday's start was delayed because of TST = Ninja issues as noted in an email announcement from TST support. Today there was an internet service provider outage between TST and NT that may have been storm related per the email notice from TST support. Hopefully those connectivity issues...

so far the TST - Ninja pairing offer has been an epic fail. Monday was locked out. Today connections grayed out, stranded working orders and won't connect at this time. Meanwhile, zen-fire thru Mirus streams flawlessly so that ain't the problem. Very disappointed in the process with NT...

Seriously now, all kidding aside... it's easy to tell who the non-U.S. based gamblers needing a fix are. This is the biggest storm to hit the east coast in modern history... from North Carolina to Maine, inland to West Virginia and Canada. Barometer readings are 27 and falling. And they...