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Nazz, Some of the best long trades are bear market rallies. I remember the e-mini SP rallying 90 handles in 30 minutes in 08's bear market. Normally 90 handles is seen as a storming month for the SP. Most of these HFT's I bet are long only too, you can see how they manipulate the bids...

The biggest trader I know is a guy that only goes long and since I was struggling lately I was wondering what people thought about this. I've always wondered why banks and hedge funds only go long and when I asked him why he only goes long, he simply said "The market goes up 70% of the time so...

Who in God's name trades at that time? The market is already dead enough to be wasting time on that. I literally fell asleep at my screen yesterday and had a nightmare that I had my finger stuck on the buy button and was limit long and offside lol... true story. The ES needs to be open 24...

Haven't you heard of the saying " Masturbate to accumulate " muwahahahahaha :D

I know i have an edge because it feels like im sitting on one every time im losing money lol

I've always seen people who give their money to others to invest as the sort of folk who would leave their back door open and come home and wonder how they just got robbed. I mean hell the robber deserves justice but there is a time where you gotta say "Hey, I might have just brought that unto...

Popular market gurus are always bulls. If the market goes up, which it does most of the time, they look like world beaters. It's only now that they look terrible, but like bank traders they will stick to their strategy year upon year until the market goes up again and they can take their bonus...

The fact that you are a fairly successfull trader and still ask people from bulletin boards for trading advice makes your strategy ridiculous. Best regards JJ

I remember when Cramer was saying that the selling he was seeing in 2008 was 'not normal' and was being down by 'financial terrorists' !!! lol. I think he was trying to claim anyone short was a member of Al Qaeda. I mean hell i was caught long too but that was the mother of all excuses for a...

If I'm not mistaken, if you count yesterday, isn't it 11 days down in a row? That means one of two things a) The market is oversold and will bounce b) Someone knows some bad news and when it is released the market will TANK. Now place your trades off of that analysis folks!! hahhahahah

I got nothing against HFT's persay, but if it is true that they have access to data milliseconds earlier than the rest of us, and hence can put an order in BEFORE an order that they see coming, then that's downright insider trading right there and they should be put in jail. Does anyone have...

Borsellino is a famous bear in the pit. He's meant to have done pretty well and 'they' didn't do nothing to him. And who are 'they'meant to be anyhow?

Volatility dries up and the geeks go mad. Is any order on the E-mini Spoos genuine these days?? It isn't trading any more folks its merely a game of cat and mouse. Who is the better cheat, that's the game these days. The exchange know it's illegal yet won't ever stop the guys who are doing...

99.9% of people fail at trading because 99.9% of people are stoopid. Simples.

The market will be shite this year fullstop. Nothing will make it move. Earnings, figures nothing. My advice is, if you have the money, go and do something else for the year. Which means I'll be trading this year lol

Okay so someone bought AND sold 200K ES at 37.25 and 37.5. First off, how is it possible for someone to do this 'inadvertantly'. The answer of course is that is not possible. My theory is this was just a huge instance of manipulating the market upwards. Trading with yourself is probably...

It is very naive to assume there is only two big traders in the ES pushing it around considering the houses are considerable players but I guess it's interesting to pass the time? No, it isn't naive at all. Wasn't the oil pit one huge fund against another with Amaranth losing a...

I don't think either of these are the PPT. These guys are there everyday and it should be natural for two funds to go against each other in a market as big as the Spoos. The first three guys are unquestionably locals, just big ones, that's all.

In reply to the question who cares? ANYONE WHO TRADES THE MARKET should care in order they are not manipulated out of their position by 'the flipper'. Standard oil - I can often see what the 'flipper' is trying to do and as I see everyone buying into his offer as he manipulates the bids...

Hi, I have been scalping the e-mini SP 500 for a few years now and wanted to open up a thread regarding the world's biggest ES traders to use as inspiration for my own trading. Specifically, there are a few I have noticed which I would like to bring to your attention and see what you know...