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The trend was my friend today. (Greenie didn't hurt either :D 4 Contracts 4 Trades

Are you saying that you trade the price movement back toward the SMA?

I began to backtest by hand, charting trades daily in EXCEL... wore my fingers to the bone. Then I got TRADESTATION. Saves a lot of time. The difficulty is that TRADESTATION is not 100% accurate. I try to employ a little discretion on the entry/exits based on TRADESTATION's trigger. Then...

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bungrider, Yea, as if this wasn't hard enough... them come data problems, software, hardware and just pushing the wrong damn button! I use the following to keep my trading platform online: T1 data backup DSL (with a different ISP) 2 separate trading workstations Esignal...

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I also thought that it might be worth mentioning that I finally found a way to overcome my SHORT bias. Trading within a strict system is the only way I have been able to LONG profitably. I don't know what it is, but I just can't see a LONG setup to save my life. Just thought this might be...

Here are my august trades so far. Money can defiantly be made here, but I can honestly say that trading is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. I wouldn't wish the life of a day trader on my worst enemy! (Well actually I would... have to take somebody's money ;-) 8/1 4 contracts 2...

Thank you: candletrader, stkcowboy, TriPack, Ditch, nljones5, nkhoi, and everyone out there who helped me out. I took to heart advise (especially from stkcowboy) about fine-tuning a system. I've backtested and live traded my revised system for the last three weeks, with results far exceeding...

At long last, Trades 10-14. Using Snagit now... much easier. Thank you Nkhoi!

Still behind in charting this all up. Here are trades 5-9 from Thursday.

stkcowboy, this is great! Exactly what we need more of here: constructive, intelligent dialogue. My thoughts: 1. no rhymn nor reason to your trade setups. Yes, most of my trades are "gut feeling" with T/A to back them up. I have been trading for about 3 years and have found this most...

Wow, all these great suggestions... guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend. :p Yes, Nkhoi I still use OT. Only for confirmations though. I never trade based on OT signals alone.

Fantastic Ditch! Thanks You. I'll look into it next week.

This is taking a lot longer that I though to annotate/plot charts. ...More to come...

Trades 1-3 I put the indicators back on this time: Bol Bands 5MA 20MA MACD Also, circled the trades for easy identification. Comments/suguestions would be greatly appreciated! -JB

ESU2 SLD 3 910.75 17:03:57 $112.50 $112.50 ESU2 BOT 3 910 17:05:36 ESU2 SLD 3 907 17:16:39 $(187.50) $(75.00) ESU2 BOT 3 908.25 17:18:27 ESU2 SLD 3 907.25 17:19:53 $(150.00) $(225.00) ESU2 BOT 3 908.25 17:21:46 ESU2 SLD 3 924.5 18:07:19...

Here is a screenshot of the setting I found in Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP) that makes the charts display at full resolution. Un-check the option "Automatic image resizing."

Will do. Thanks for the feedback. Feel free to comment on the trades too! :D I noticed that when I use Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP) that the charts are "fit to screen" and very hard to read. By messing around in the browser window I was able to get the full-screen button to show up in...

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