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is it me, or is this market extra choppy today?

come on.. it's going up

i completely understand moving the stop up to protect profits and trying to let your profit ride at the same time, but balancing the two seems hard. it'll come with time for me, i guess. if the mkt popped 20pts in my favor all of a sudden, i find it tends to retreat maybe 5-10pts before...

ammo, Thx for the advice, i've been reading a few journals on here. One i thought was pretty helpful was called AHG. Also, you mentioned the diff news coming out at all sorts of times during the day, making the market verrrry choppy. Are these abnormal market conditions? I just started a week...

Yeah, discipline is the hardest part right now, im so interested in trading it's all i want to do. Still finding myself impulse trading a little bit. Here's a screenshot of my "workstation" if you could call it that, mainly use the stoch reading and the 14-day sma for signals. And using the...

Thanks man. I may take on one of these, heating oil's price went up a bit from the snow storms that hit the north recently, but they're settling back down now it seems. Happy trading man, ill be reading.

really picking my spots today. did 3 trades. almost took a trade at 11:10 to go long on a pull back, but decided to stay out from now on at 11pm. good thing it pulled back even more. Short 1 @ 12422 Stopped @ 12437 Short 1 @ 12422 Short 1 @ 12453 <-- accidental short instead of long...

2nd week done. Man it was quite a ride this week, I learned quite alot more this week than last. Definitely NOT touching the Hang Seng until I watch it for a few months and paper trade it a while. Slowly learning to spot different trends, when to stay out of the market, when to go in, when to...

yeah guys, i'm completely a newbie here. i'm here to make a buck now, i got bills to pay, but im also in it for the long run. even if i go bust now ill still come back to the markets. i've been trading stocks since 14 and i'm pretty obsessed with the markets right now, which is why i dipped...

hey young trader, not sure how old most of the traders on here are, but it's nice see to people around my age trading. im new to the commodities market, just started looking seriously earlier this year, day trading the YM at the moment and randomly take positions in other commodities during the...

Completely fustrated today, traded the Hang Seng last night and got hammered for 900 and change. Chased the market down today, 32 round turns, took in 800 after commissions. Beginning balance 10,000 Current balance 9,867 (-133) Went out of my bounds and shorted 3 contracts at the last...

completely broke my rules today, let a short trade ride until afterhours. still unable to cut losses short. Total 5 trades today, lost 201 for the day. Balance currently at $10,122.75 from $10K. kind of angry at myself. going to force myself to use 8 or 10pt stops tomorrow and see how...

Traded the narrow range before lunch, got a few ticks. Short 12264 Close 12271 Short 12259 Close 12257 Short 12280 Close 12267 Long 12269 Close 12275 +52.96 after comm. Waiting for the fed minutes, and hopefully find a trade or two more.

vol, i use Interactive Brokers, so i'm not sure. but i saw on TS you have to pay for all your data feeds, so you probably have to pay for the hong kong feed, and i think the tokyo data feed to get the nikkei and hang seng. i trade them free with IB, hongkong is free. and i use the singapore...

thanks, supervol. holy crap, caught a HUGE dip in the Hang Seng tonight. HSI Feb Short 24050, Close 23923 +$806 Okay, now it feels like vegas :eek:

hey, ammo, and everyone else, really appreciate the comments. ammo: I know i referenced poker in my first post, but i wasn't trying to say this is like going to vegas on a vacation. When i play poker, I don't gamble, I play the odds, and I win through discipline and NOT taking crazy...

hey, SuperVolatility, how long have you been trading the YM with real money for? Just starting at the end of January? I just started trading the YM as well, named my journal after your's lol.

3 YM trades today Short 12407, Closed 12441 Short 12462, Closed 12419 Long 12442, Closed 12472 +182.22 +186.78 Overall in the YM Opened with $10K, now it's at $9517. Coming back slowly, really trying not to churn the account and do fewer trades, and doing 1 contract at a time.

Late sunday night. Tried my luck at the Nikkei 225, and the Hang Seng for the first time. NK225 Sell 13660, cover 13645. +$65 HSI Long 23963, cover 23995. +$205 I had no idea how crazy the asian markets moved. I prolly shoulda put Futures journal, instead of YM journal. But ill...

thanks for the input guys. nkhoi: yeah, the late day rally doesn't always come, but it *usually* does for bear dow days, and your chart covers all the days, bull and bear. optoncoach: thx, im going to try the 1min, 5min, and 15min simutaneously and see if they do make a difference. im...