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The crazy guy who was going to run circles around Larry WIlliams $10,000 to $1,000,000 in a year was Sabena... But be careful what you wish for...

LMAO...

Well said and very honest...However, with the number of obnoxious idiots inundating this board in recent weeks, you would figure that every guy who ever opened an account is making 500k per year... It's akin to the expression that golf(or most other sports for that matter are 90% mental), but...

Steve T is right...That is the biggest drawback about the customer service...If they cannot figure out the question you are asking in about 30 seconds, you get the hand off and the ultimate diss which is "please e-mail us"...I remember back in 1999 before IB became "mainstream", it was a real...

yep, that is true...The "noise" element or range in the indicies is constantly changing, even during the day itself...There is no reasonable means of testing it on that short of a time frame, its just too damn random...But going out several handles things probably become smoother

From what I understand, you are asking if there is any research predicated on some common entry that will determine odds of market hitting ur target prior to your stop loss...This sounds pretty similar to the study done by either Murray Ruggiero or John Sweeney and the concept of using...

A) Turn off the order entry platform if you are trading only longer term set-ups or swings....(hence u will avoid the temptation to impulse trade) OR B) If you must do some boredom trading, set up a second account with a minimal amount of money and set your contract limits very low...(it also...

a wingspread that has more coverage across more strikes....I think it is just a "layered" wingspread...

And this makes sense to a certain extent doesnt it? With the ways in which the index weighting favored about a dozen stocks in the NAS towards the end of the boom, once they blew out their positions and outflows became the norm, the biggest titans were the ones who got killed...The stocks that...

Even more interesting than the names assigned to these positions, probably predicated exclusively on the curvature, the fact that there were market makers way back when who "layered" spreads so thick and across so many strikes is really interesting...Imagine the first market markers or group of...

The August movement, imo, is about the hardest to call of any time during the year...It has been this way for many years as it sort of fits in between any critical time of year for anyone to do anything important except sit on their hands...We get the "vacation market" for a few weeks and the...

dont forget the pterodactyl batman spread and one that I liked called the "shark fin" spread because the curvature looks like the fin of a shark

Aside from the common "everybody knows about them" indicators such as TICK, TIKI, PREM...to an extent it comes down to seeing how the futures react in conjunction with the aforementioned indicators...If you have a TICK spike to 1000 TIKI hits 24 and PREM shoots up, then u probably have a buy...

I agree...the volume in the es futures, at least, just seems to be apathetic...Before we hit 935 and since we hit 935, I think this is the Make or Break level mainly because it was in the vicinity of those Sept lows....Monday definitely could have trapped some late longs...These late August, no...

Out of curiosity, how did you make the transition from scalping one minute charts to position daytrading...Its quite a transformation in a few weeks...Nice work

Yeah, its a coin flip...We have the 20D breakout long supporting the pullbacks, the longer term resistance shorts coming in and selling if it gets too overbought...Tons of chop in between...SP rallied 22.5% from July 24th low to yesterday's high...NQ rallied 20% and I believe the DOW did about...

I would have to agree...It might appear fractal, but in real time it can be lethal, not fractal...It goes thru phases like everything else...I have seen three minute charts, one minute charts, etc just break clean pivots and trade thru to S/R...Reverse beautifully off of nice logical pivot...

yes, I think that is more accurate...Alot of traders dont lose, per se, based on their overall winners to losers, but lose over time because of the "slow bleed" that commissions, spreads, technology failures, and other "Acts of God" as they say in the literature...Micro-managing during trend...

I think it is a myth as well...And the reason I say this is simple...Most losing traders or newbies do not lose because their entries are always incorrect, but because they fail to manage their winners or their losers well...The very same signals in the hands of an experienced trader could very...

From my perspective, going into the past week I thought 935 on the SP would be an important level for a few reasons: First, 935(area) give or take a few handles, was the Swing Low following the first penetration of last September's Major Swing Low around 944. The day the market turned(July...