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The chart I had posted is on Tradestation which provides charts down to a single tick or second, it has a long look-back period on all time frames. I am very pleased with the platform/broker.

Is increasing risk/size after successive trading losses good risk management or bad? Professional traders & gamblers know that when they are losing they are playing at their worst & judgement gets impaired. Most trade smaller size aiming for base hits before slowly & carefully adding in more...

What is Cramer talking about? All of the stocks he mentioned made huge multi-day moves of 200-300%, many day & swing traders made a killing on these - who's gaming who? Fast & nimble day & swing traders have been killing it, the larger operators can't move in & out the speeds we can.

Wow, the executives at CLDX are good traders - hehe.

My oh my, what a linear day! This type of trend line voodoo should enrage the TA haters. Once you have 2 reaction highs connect with a trend line & than extend out - that's where she goes, the path of least resistance.

I have not used an AV or Spyware program running in real-time for over two decades now - never been hacked. Plenty of TS 'power users' are doing the same. As long as you have a fairly modern router you should be fine. This is what TS recommends (best practices), if your want to run an AV or...

If you have an Antivirus or Spyware program running try shutting it down - it can adversely affect TS. https://www.tradestation.com/best-practices-client-center/

The IRA margin on futures is 3x higher for IRA's. https://pennies.interactivebrokers.com/cstools/contract_info/v3.10/index.php

The bond market closes & many of the bond traders jump on the futures, than there are the institutional traders that are most active the last hour.

This is the norm for several months now, ever since the Fed drank the punch bowel & hit the crack pipe, lower mkt cap stocks with small floats have been going ballistic. Gains of 100%-300+% every day with another 50%-100%+ in the extended session. This makes 1999 look tame, we never had it so...

Well done man! Lukin means luck & happiness. The streamed TDA acct balance makes this look legit to me - maybe I am wrong? We have been in a real one-off period with the Feds QE infinity & the huge spike in trading activity from the Covid-19 shut in. The smaller cap stocks with lower float has...

Most of the more seasoned swing traders do both - ring the register at a smaller target, leaving half or a third of the position to run - why not, its a free ride? These runners, when manged well, will add significant profit to your bottom line. I always exit just prior to earnings and reenter...

Here you go - 1 second chart, blue box = 8:42a

Interactive Brokers has this type of order you have in mind, it's called 'stop-adjustable'. Most broker's do not have this type of order. https://interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=574

If your not trading Covid19 stocks breaking out both up from the emotional buyers plowing in & the backside plunges - you don't know what you are missing. This is a one-off, never seen anything like this before even back in the dot com days. Many of these Covid-19 plays tack on another 100%+...

Be careful - the market conditions we have had are a real one-off, futures index scalping was never this easy/profitable unlike any time before - at least that's my impression. Reminds me of 1999, day traders could throw a dart and make huge profits easily until conditions changed in 2000, many...

Ed Thorpe had a high win rate in the number of months his fund was profitable, this in no way implies a high trade win rate. For him it was a numbers game, a small edge applied over a large enough number of trades to come out winning nearly every month. Thorpe always emphasizes his fat pitch...

I would say don't make your win rate your highest priority. It's how much you lose when your wrong & how much you make when you right that will determine your outcome.

The unusually high win rates that blow up are caused by the trader getting win rate tunnel vision. Their ego ends up getting the best of them. The cocky trader bragging or lying about their 90% win rate is never around very long - natural selection at work. To pull it off they take smaller &...

Well stated - I think this is something that very seasoned traders come to learn the hard way. Here is a clever & enlightening article that many on here that don't get this concept can learn from with an open mind. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-siren-song-of-high-winning-percentage-2011-4