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    Trader P/L 2006

    Messed up day when my best trade is in ZB :(
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    Bond Trader 2006

    go for 110'00 :)
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    Bond Trader 2006

    what are chances we touch 14 zb?
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    Bond Trader 2006

    dollar index breaking resistance = going up I mean
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    Bond Trader 2006

    The dollar is breaking a key resistance as we speak -- if it continues how would bonds generally react?
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    Bond Trader 2006

    Do bond traders key off the dollar much for intraday time frame?
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    Nzd/usd

    what's with the NZ?
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    Now we go lower SIGH.
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    Bond Trader 2006

    Why so bearish here?
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    The Best Music To Trade To Is.......

    Explosions in the Sky
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    *lol* Whether he gets paid to keep coming back or not -- I don't know which is sadder.
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    Did IB change something today?

    Again today, right on schedule, the TWS slows to a crawl and stops right around 10am. No purple grid, just choppiness-until-frozen quotes. Meanwhile realtick runs fine. Restarting is the only option, but it still takes a few minutes for it to come back to normal. Like I said earlier, 2nd...
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    Bond Trader 2006

    How do you guys trade 1000-lots and still post here? Are you insane or just don't care that much? Or both? :) Anyways, a question for Lance: does your profit target, stop, and time-frame affect how large a position you take? Say for example, you had anticipated the bigger selloff that...
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    How do you pick a breakout?

    That's the thing -- if you knew the answer, you wouldn't be trading "breakouts". Also, you'd know which "breakouts" to hold, and which to flip over short to profit off the other "breakout" traders. :)
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    Trader P/L 2006 Questions and Discussion

    kiwi, I don't know what others might get out of posting P/L's for themselves, but for me it's to humiliate myself as much as possible when I do stupid things and post outsized losing days. No better way to get over one's ego in not wanting to take a loss than to magnify it a...
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    Another choice for Pocket PC RT quote & intraday chart

    Wtf was that? Did you just give me a virus?
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    Trader P/L 2006 Questions and Discussion

    I made the reference to constraints in stocks because there are some strategies that just max out at a certain point, which is not usually the case in futures. But I guess my point would apply to equity traders as well. Take a trader that makes a consistent $500 daily trading say euro...
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    Trader P/L 2006 Questions and Discussion

    Yeah I guess account size was the wrong target, I should have meant maximum exposure instead. For the record, I currently trade between 1-2 lots in EUR, JPY, GBP, and 2-4 in CAD. I limit myself to single lots in ZB, QM, ZI etc cuz I'm the consummate contrarian indicator in those markets. :)
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    Trader P/L 2006 Questions and Discussion

    Equities have volume constraints depending upon market-cap, liquidity, time-frame etc. I would just be suspicious of someone with a large account making a very consistent but relatively small amount daily in a highly liquid and volatile market like EUR. I suppose what I really mean is that one...
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    Trader P/L 2006 Questions and Discussion

    A thought or 2 about the thread in general: Some of the guys posting on the P/L thread are eerily consistent -- like $1K or so just about each and every day. Nothing suspicious about that when talking about intraday equities. However, if someone was making a consistent $1K just about each...
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