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ps. the "journal" is for everyone who likes to ramble on eurex and or liffe trading..

took 3 ticks now up 6 and 75 rts

short from 39 should i keep this one?

f*ck me, just thought i had an easy short, the thing just perks up like a hippie on xtc. I always wonder: is this just random or is there really some buying pressure by 1 or more institions in the stockmarket or what. there we go, esx @ hod

it feels like the thing wants to break out.. continously scratching my lifted offers.. 65 rt's now, still 4 ticks up

the dax is a nice confirmation vehicle.. sometimes the esx follows the dax.. i expect a slow market untill the retail sales come out. trading accordingly, sitting on the bid or ask and waiting for somebody who is unpatient and uninformed to hit my bid or lift my offer.

This is going to be an "intraday" journal. My excuses beforehand for any random rambling which might occur and for my not-perfect english. I am trading the esx today. It's more liquid, due to higher relative tick size i suppose.. and it's acting like a bitch, as almost always, no room for...

it's more that the people at ib's don't want to work for prop firms or retail than the other way around :-)

Draxon, way to go! I was just curious if you only pay attention to the price/volume action, or do you also use fundamental information (or something else) to form your judgement?

in my experience it was just clicking the esignal button during the setup of ts2000i and i was fine. It is correct that ts only collects data while connected to esignal. you can download past data though, don't know exactly how that works though..

Allright, I am interested.. WDGann, what then is THE right book about Gann? IMO, if you want to read into REAL scientific theories about the market, and the one that most accurately explains the market (I've never come accross a theory more close to what the market is), read about chaos...

a certain tick size is important for liquid markets. people who trade the bid/ask spread make immediate fills without excessive slippage possible. these people need to recover from adverse selection costs, order processing costs and storage costs ( i know i don't use exactly the right words, but...

Htrader, if you could write pages about it, and you don't mind to, do it! I'd love to read them. Then again, I also believe that these detrimental "human" behaviors are not inherent to human beings, they are more inherent to a certain kind of human beings. For one, I learned that when I...

I know this doesn't help much, but I haven't found them. Also, I strongly doubt they exist. Only thing I could find on cqg was a DAX volatility index provided by the Eurex. You could try the sector indexes, like technology, banks, etc.. On another note, have you been making money on...

I come from a scalping the bid/ask background. I found it doesn't quite work on the esx. It might work for 3 rt's untill one large market order wipes out all ur profits of the previous 3 trades. Now I am trying to stick longer in the position (the plan is not to enter if i don't see about 10...

I was pleasantly surprised by all the helpfull comments by bundlemaker and others. Thanks a million. I am gonna put the writing plan into action and I am sure it will help. I didn't like the idea before because I like to be flexible, but I will try and incorporate that. After I started...

unfortunately the winners don't pay for the losers

I am doing a lot of rt's a day, while a lot of the trades are just bs-trades. Because some trades are very nice winners, I think I can afford just to take any possible trade. Anybody had the same problem and was able to solve it? I am curious to hear how you did it, what "methods" you applied...

During US hours the elitetrader chatroom is pretty active with es/nq and stock traders. We might get something going for european traders during the morning over there. Just exchanging current, "live" views of the market and possibly posting your entries and exits.. Might be a good...

if you put every person who steals a car stereo in prison for 5 years, they will still be out on the streets after 5 years. and believe me, those people who have absolutely NOTHING to lose, or to GAIN in the normal world. what are they going to do when they are on the streets? They are not...