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AskSlim, Welcome to ET. I also enjoy reading your column. You'll find ET to be very much like the market itself. Some threads will make sense with useful information exchange. Some will chop around with lots of noise and with posts impossible to decipher. Chinook

I wish I didn't watch the Tradestation intro videotape hosted by Bill Cruz 5-6 years ago. Developing a profitable system was shown to be incredibly simple. The system was a simple MA crossover and the market applied was nicely trending! Chinook

Yes, individual trade volume is not reported during the day. Only daily volume is available after the close. Chinook

The link in my post mentioned stop orders but they took the link out! Anyway, I sent CBOT an e-mail. Chinook

It looks like everyone is doing it in a dfferent way. Thanks for the suggestions. Chinook

Paul, I have a similar document for my trade logs. It's not as detailed as yours though but still I can go back and review my performance (not necessarily P/L). It's essential to keep these logs for tracking down repetitive mistakes. How many trades do you do in a typical day? Thanks...

Yes, I'm losing my mind :)

Vega, Good suggestion! This is the way I see it: Let's say my intraday swing system has 50% winning trades with avg win / avg loss ~1.5 . Of my winners, half of them leaves a good chunk of profits on the table. So basically, there's some kind of frustration about 75 % of the time. I think even...

I have a suggestion for a new forum: "Venting Room" . This can be a forum where we can vent our trading related frustrations after a bad day or boast after an exceptional day. This can be like the Journal Forum where people have their own journals with technical details. In this forum, instead...

Acrary, Thanks for your post. I see your point and we both agree on the actual reward. When I open a position, my protective stop order (risk) is already pending at the exchange. That's why I see it as the actual risk taken, since it's already out there. Chinook

I think you can do this in more than one way. I'm keeping track of my P/L and Risk(initial entry stop) for each trade in a day. Let's say I made the following trades, commissions included: 1) P/L=-100 , Entry Stop=120, R/R=-0.5 2) P/L=200, Entry Stop=80, R/R=2.5 3) P/L=-80, Entry...

Does anyone have more info on the US equity index futures Eurex-US is planning to offer? Thanks, Chinook

sp500 is only traded in the pit. So most likely, your orders will have higher slippage than e-mini orders. Chinook

I got this from today's Innerworth Newsletter. I like the following quote: "Rarely do any of us grow up learning how to operate in an arena that allows for complete freedom of creative expression, with no external structure to restrict it in any way. In the trading environment, you will have...

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http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21793 I'm hoping CBOT will do something similar for YM. Chinook

I also don't have a daily $$$ goal. This is the way I see it. Market is a like a psycho girlfriend; you don't know what she's going to do next. How do you handle uncertainty? You don't want to add more to uncertainty by getting in and out of trades in an inconsistent way. Thus my goal is to...

Trade_addict, Thanks for the feedback. I like your handle! I guess we're all here trade addicts in a way :) Chinook

I suggest you stay out during the "lunch" time: 11:30-14:00 EST. Most of the time, market chops around with low volume. Chinook

FX-Trader, I think we discussed about this in the past but it looks like new platform will also support stop orders (page 904B). http://www.cbot.com/cbot/docs/37118.pdf Chinook