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I find it difficult to trade in today's market with proper risk management. I mostly daytrade the Q's, and if I'm lucky, I'll make a trade that gives me a profit of 1%, but that's not often, and there are probably more trades with less gain and some losses, totalling a lousy P/L record. In...

Thanks Yannis and Trader42! However, I'm trading with TradeStation, so these simulators won't do me any good unless I change to IB... Do you know of any simulators that work with TS?

The idea of being able to simulate virtual trades in real time is something I think we all could profit from. I'm currently trading through TradeStation and I cannot find a simulator that works with their data feed - does anyone here know of any? At the same time as I understand the brokers...

Yannis, sorry I misunderstood "use a simulator like futures trader for a while" for a simulator called futures trader... What I meant to ask is if you know of a simulator for futures trading?

Thanks for the advice! The 3+2+1 contract is something I won't do until I feel confident with trading just one contract, and before even doing that I'll papertrade and simulate trading a while, that's been the plan from the beginning. The simulation I've done so far is on TradeStation, stepping...

Thanks a thousand Yannis! Getting advice from someone who has been trading these instruments for a long time is very valuable! I have about 30k in my equities account now and plan to transfer about half of it, 15k, to a futures account. With the margin, I can buy up to 6 contracts with that...

Thanks you all for your replies, this community sure is great and professional. Hope I can bring more value to it as I get more experienced in this trade :) I trade with TradeStation, and looking at their margin requirements for trading NQ, they have three different types: * Initial...

Thanks for your reply m c a98! Your answer to my question: ------------------------- Q: I read in this string that trading futures (NQ) is a different story from trading stocks (QQQ). I cannot see how, as NQ and QQQ follow eachother extremely close. Can someone tell me what is so different...

I've been trading the cubes for about two years now, but almost always have looked at NQ for the support/resistance etc. I now think of changing to e-mini NQ and there are some things I'd like to get perfectly clear before doing so. I hope you can help me with these rookie questions. :) * I...

Thanks for your reply Cashonly! However, I'm still wondering about this "strategy". Not going long whenever the tick is negative and vice versa. Also, trading the QQQ, should I perhaps be better off locking at the Dow tick? Is this the preferred tick to look at for most traders (and if so...

I have read somewhere, here or elsewhere, that a good trading strategy (short term) is to never go long when the tick is negative and vice versa. Now, trading QQQ for instance, I suppose I should be interested in the Nasdaq tick (TIKQ on Tradestation). However, compared to the the Dow tick...

I normally scan the market updates on Briefing.com, on CNN and some other sites. What I'm interested in, is to find out what sites you prefer to scan before the market opens, in order to get as good a grip on what will happen during the day as possible, what the market thinks are the...

Thanks WarEagle, beginning to grasp the concepts... So, a contract of NQ is 3K? I thought it was 20*950=19K. How is the price for one contract calculated then?

with, I guess, a number of rookie questions... so take it easy on me! 1. I frankly don't get it why trading futures, say NQ, are more risky than let's say QQQs. Can someone explain the basic logic behind that? As I see it, and probably being wrong, I can either buy 800 QQQs or 1 contract...

Thanks Tasuki, then I won't think about trading ES or NQ until the next release!

Anyone who have tried TradeStation for trading futures? They just lowered their commission to 3.99 per side. What disadvantages/advantages may there be?

I was just about to buy a LCD (before I decided to save the money and go for another CRT), so I did my research on them and found that Samsung seems leading when it comes to developing the display. They also have among the lowest prices combined with the best prestanda. The one I was going for...

Thanks Nitro, I'll go for this set-up for now. What I should have included in the comparison was that with the LCD set-up you get the same amount of information, but as the resolution is lower, the total picture is of course larger, which should be an extra advantage.

Just for fun, a quick comparison between two set-ups, almost equal in the amount of information displayed, but with quite different costs: 2 x 19" CRT @ 1600x1200 = 3.8 Mpixels. Price about $800. 3 x 18" LCD @ 1200x1024 = 3.9 Mpixels. Price about $4000. After this comparison, I'm...

Thanks guys for your respons! :) What got me curious about tick vs real volume in a volume chart was that TS has ticks as default in the volume indicator when showing intraday 1-minute charts. If showing 2-minute charts or longer intervals, it takes volume as default for the volume indicator...