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Aaron, I was not aware that function was availailable for futures. Could you please give me some advice how to get started setting it up for es? Thank You

I like the stop for emergency purposes. 9 times out of 9.367542 you will be filled at your stop price. But if you have a limit profit order in AND a stop, make sure you cancel if one is hit. Nothing worse than celebrating a good trade and then hear the little bongo drum go off and then it's...

that's the benefit of entering with a limit, you can set up a hotkey with an auto stop, so if you get in and sys crashes, or mkt starts behaving badly, you aren't fumbling around. nuther nice thing, I set up a close position hotkey as a mkt order, (I use X) so if I get confused it's "XT" (T...

oh yeah thats right, 10 points a day, right, exactly right

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yeah see, the idea is you see what it would have looked like if you hung on to the close. And then you make some kind of analysis. Like maybe, even with no stops I wouldn't have got killed that bad. And secondly, you ask yourself, now why the heck am I taking profits at all? Did I tell...

They say, you can slightly improve the performance of a system with no stops by eliminating the worst 20% of trades. How do I know what the worst 20% of my trades would look like since I always stop them out? Well, for us low techies, just take a painful walk down the right hand column of...

Corso, It's like this. I haven't read it, but I hear this is the crux of Gallagers "Winner Take All'. But It's how I see it. We are just running from the law of averages. If you stop and look back, they catch up with you. Good trading is what you can get away with. You can get away with...

yes, quite ingeneous. Entry schmentry, you could just flip a coin and do as well. It's the mm that's a winner. I've tried them all, and converting a fixed to a trailing stop can't be beat. I should use it more, but I don't, because it takes 6 to get 3. But if you could abduct an ignorant...

Even Mr. Bollinger emphatically warns that buying the lower band and selling the upper band is a losing strategy. The only thing worse is trying it with no stops. So I figured, if it is so obviously a loser, it must be a winner. Then I doubled my money scalping for 1 point using a 3 point...

Here's another one Cathy. I was reading your posts about using Bollinger bands as profit objectives. So I decide one day to try it only I decide to use them both as profit and loss lines. That is. if I am short, I am not going to exit until price hits the lower band, win lose or draw. So...

Now let me get this straight. You went from an unprofitable trader using a 1.5 dime a dozen profitable system, to a discretionary trader, all because you have common sense?

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oh, ok, Because I was wondering, if you see 25 go across, is that one order, or many orders combined all filled at the same price?

not to mention the time I thought I went home flat (and oooh was I mad. I mean I was fit to be tied. I didn't even close down the computer. I hit the button I thought got me flat and walked over to the surge protector and just switched everything off and split. I woulda shot myself but I felt my...

yes, same thing happened to me yesterday. It was the best trade of the day. What's really funny is when you panic and try to correct the mistaken trade and accidently double size. Those are the ones that pay for all the thinking.

average es size is 1.5 (this posted by a trader on this site who sounded like he had the actual number from the merc)