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Slippage for me is defined as follows with my 1 lot.... I expect a fill at a price equal to the close of the previous bar when entering on the open of the next bar.

Hi, I have a trend following system that appears to work pretty well on a 5 min timeframe on up to daily timeframe. When system appears to work well I don't get all giddy because I know slippage and commissions is my next step to calculate. For a trend following system on the 5 min intraday...

Cool. How many months have you been on sim? Were you profitable? Do you have a thoroughly thought out , detailed, and tested plan? Looking forward to reading, Best Wishes

You won't listen to this advice but you should be on sim until you know what your doing. Once profitable 12 out of 15 days go live 1 contract. The pros appreciate your donations thus far. Best wishes

Thank you for clarifying that your going with a Girl. Without you're clarification I would have thought you were going with a gay dude or tranny :D

Something interesting that I saw recently . I was watching "trader " with Paul Tudor jones from 1987 and they thought the debt at that time would cause huge reprocusions in a couple years and we made it this far lol so hopefully we have another 20 years left .

Ok complete currency collapse during a short period (1week-1month) HAS happened in the past and definatly CAN happen in the future ....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation Through history the average life of a fiat currency (not backed by anything) is 40 years. We are on year 40...

Is it complete random entry ? Of course not.... no such thing as random because there is always an intelligent designer . So the next question would be. What are your rules for entry?

Trade CL, when price crosses above 290 EMA , buy on Close of 5 min bar. Use a 20 point stop . Exit on market close or when stopped out. Now if 100 different people use this it won't work as many will bid the price up on the exact same signal making the signal worthless. See the logic here?

It's funny knowing that every day I wake up my chances of seeing something crazier than the day before are pretty good.

There were reports of the nasdaq being hacked into earlier this year. The hackers supposedly were just "looking around" but didn't affect anything . Probably just trying to snoop for their own gain and hopefully not to cause hell. http://www.businessinsider.com/nasdaq-hacked-2011-2

This made my day lmao!

If you're dumb enough to invest in an etf with a butchered prospectus then that is your responsibility, no one elses. No conspiracy, in the video he simply read the prospectus of the ETF. So what? No ones out to get us . We just realize that there is demand for metals due to an over abundance of...

Just saw this one the other night, Thanks. Also, right now there is a demand of 127% for silver , the last time the demand was this high was when the hunt brothers tried to corner the market and caused a 3500% increase from trough to peak. <object id="cnbcplayer" height="380" width="400"...

Doesn't it bog down a certain type of memory if you leave it on 24/7? I haven't gotten the message with my new system after leaving it on all the time but I remember I used to get a message saying my memory was running low when I used to leave my old system on (windows xp). Just curious

You're absolutely correct. Food prices are starting to get away from us in relation to wages. I buy a lot of tuna for my protein and that has been going up cent by cent by cent for the past year and a half every time I go to the store.

Focus on one market , know this market better than you know your own Johnson. Measure the swings, note the durations, times of day ect. Compile a database and study the numbers, norms, and outliers. Know your weaknesses and use protective measures against your own weaknesses. Above all, for god...

During the Clinton era wasn't the "shutdown" only for like 6-12 days lol. What a shutdown that was.

Has your plan /method worked out well for you the past x months in sim?

1%..... Start fresh next day. All depends on what your goals are and what kind of trading/investing your doing.