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Here's the 1 contract aggressive mode.

I have a ES daytrade breakout strategy in TS 2000i code I'd like to swap for a comparable performing ES reversal strategy. This has 2 modes aggressive and conservative. PM me if interested. Here's 1 contract conservative mode from 2001 - Nov. 2005.

Looks like it's going to be a boring start to 2006. Models don't indicate a trade for Tuesday so I'll be sitting around again. Today's entire range happened in 20 min. near the end of the day and was only 7.25 pts. Just the kind of market the models try to avoid. For most of the day the...

I'm done for the year so I'm setting up my journal to track my goal for 2006. My goal is simple. Start with 325k and grow it to at least 825k in 2006 (after comm. but before taxes). Most of it will come from compounding. I have enough saved to cover the taxes for the year. My reason for going...

If I expect the volatility to increase but without any directional bias I'd buy a straddle (correct?). If so, should I buy slightly out of the money or slightly in the money options to maximize the strategy. I'm assuming a holding period of one day.

The only order you can use in automated trading is the stop order. Market orders in realtime are delayed up to 5 sec. due to Tradestation processing so you can't count on the fills looking like historical results. Also limit orders are useless. There is no way to simulate the real world fills...

Create the chart using the tick chart as the symbol. Then insert symbol on the chart using the 2 hour chart. This will place the tick chart as data1 and the 2 hour chart as data2. In easylanguage all trades happen on the first chart. You reference the second chart by using data2...

Works for me. As long as we get some directional movement. I love lamb chops.:D

Up at 5:30am CT. 5:45 - 6:45 Do aerobics on a semi-recumbant bike 6:45 - 7:15 Shave,shower,dress 7:15 - 7:45 Eat light breakfast. Watch some CNBC. 7:45 - 8:15 Boot up computer, check email for statements. Match up with yesterdays fills. 8:15 Re-boot...

She couldn't stand the isolation of trading so she started substitute teaching. Now she's got her certificate and is teaching pre-school special ed kids. She likes the interaction and the thought that she's doing something constructive.

It's variable. My baseline %risk starts around 2.25% per-trade. If I'm up 200% of my starting account size then I'll cut the baseline to .5% to preserve the profits. This past year my r:r was 2.5:1 with 44% winners.

It's been nearly 5 years since I was laid off and 3+ years since I started trading. My wife and I started this as a team. Now it's just me and some help from my kids. Each year I've gotten better. I've now pulled out all of my initial investment plus enough to buy a house. Next year I'm planning...

Spoke with Justin about the problems. This is all new software (complete re-write). The connectivity problems are on the server side. A patch was put in this morning and so far I'm golden. I told him about some of the other problems I'm seeing (no research window updates, current p/l not...

I think that's it. When I moved a account from IB over a year ago, everything was great. I've noticed in the past couple of upgrades they've been moving to drop constant connections. Now it's practically impossible to adjust stops quickly online. I guess I'll close the account.

I love how a new mandatory update went in this past weekend. Had nothing but problems since the "update". Today I can't even logon. Getting Connect to OEC server failed. Please, check your internet connection. Tried their online "live" help only to receive a message "sorry, all representatives...

+451 Bad day of trading. Tried to work on other projects and missed entering orders. Arghhhh........I've learned my lesson........again.

One of the things I've learned thats worked well is to average into winning trades. If I go short at 1270.00 then the market must go to 1269.75 to enter a second order. For followup orders, the market must be below the average entry of the earlier orders. I always have my biggest position on...

+495 Should be done for the day, but if the ES drops more my models might kick off some more trades.

I've got your back.

I'm not sure if I have this figured out. Does this mean if I make 1,000 on a 50,000 account I've made 2% for the day? Then do a std. deviation of all the daily returns for the risk adjusted return rate? "Each Entrant’s total Challenge period return is divided by that Entrant’s daily...