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Hi Profit, Isn't this the 3rd thread you've started contrasting money management vs stops? :D No complaints as it's all been interesting and informative reading, but I'm curious as to your motivation... is it: (a) debunking conventional wisdom and sharing alternative ideas (and so many...

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Is it possible to earn a life?... methinks that's one for the philosophers. :D

Feels incredibly surreal to be watching a realtime intraday ES chart on a Sunday night.

Pholeuon, congratulations on a successful transition to futures and I'm glad your system is working well for you. Personally, I wouldn't dream of telling someone how to trade ES after I'd only been doing it for 8 months. I'd also know that there were a plethora of successful strategies in...

[/b] I appreciate your comments, Pholeuon, and have no doubt you're a much better and far more experienced trader than I am. The friend who suggested I make the switch from options to futures is also an excellent trader. Coincidentally (?), he also uses disaster stops with discretionary...

Cool, thanks for that Vertigo. And the page came through just perfect.

Thanks. 1 point stops seem to work out quite well for the setups I trade, and have only faked me out once so far. Also, these are only results from my first six days of ES trading. First six trades were all losses, but it's been 50/50 from there. While I doubt I'll ever get close...

Thanks for the post vertigo. I'm fairly new to macroeconomics... could you suggest which economic reports are most relevant, or direct me to any good online resources? Would be much appreciated.

Thanks Womble, the swings do seem slower with longer set-ups, so I think I may try setting audible alerts, or even OSO bracket orders, although the added screen-time wouldn't go amiss at this stage. I'll definitely check out the FTSE100, this hadn't even crossed my mind. I've mainly been...

Thanks Pholeuon, I'll look into Eurostoxxx 50. I'm getting really comfortable with the Tradestation interface, so hoping I can access this through them. And those meaty, well-behaved premarket swings look really tempting.

By taking advice, you're effectively leveraging someone elses experience to flatten your learning curve. So long as it's good advice! :D So I've always been in favour of this, in any endeavour. I'm only trading 1-lot on a $5k account at the moment, so I guess premarket will offer a useful...

Thanks for the response, Raker. Am curious, why do you opt for Dax in the morning?... liquidity issues?

Thanks Browns... this is what I'd suspected. I think a decent working compromise will be to start trading a couple of hours before RTH, exploiting some of the premarket potential without skimping on the learning opportunities offered by RTH.

Sounds perfect. I have looked at ES charts. Lots. That's why the question arose. I'd been advised to stick to RTH with ES, because apparently, premarket and after hours increased the sigma, but I'd had difficulty reconciling that with my own observations. Because I'm so new to ES, I...

Thanks for the responses, guys, really useful. I particularly liked the suggestion to have a look at the chart and decide for myself. :D So if practicalities weren't an issue, what do you think are the optimal times to trade ES? At the moment, trading all of RTH except the first 30 mins...

I've only recently begun daytrading ES, after a couple of years of swing-trading equity options. I've been focusing exclusively on 9.30-16.00 EST. My question is... how reliable is premarket trading, particularly in terms of validity of volume, S/R levels and intermarket analysis...

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Don't forget The World... http://www.theworld.ae/ Concrete playground.

Hey, don't go giving them any ideas! :D