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3 months means very little, the dollar has fallen pretty much steadily since then so be a skeptic until you get more data. Is your system catching profitable moves both long and short, or just leaning to one side? etc.

Aren't the skills most individual screen traders develop and use that are suitable for their personal trading good for that and that alone, esp from institutional point of view? Sure you can show them a steady track record, but if it all comes down to years of "tape feel", jumping on a few...

By definition, a swing trader buys the downdrafts and sells the upturns -- you should be out selling on strength with no patience for sitting through pullbacks. As for trailing stops, I find them specifically useful only during extreme price moves -- parabolic, blow-off volume situations...

That's pretty much it in a nutshell. I remember when I traded stocks, it was a hell of a lot easier to just trade 'em and leave 'em day to day; if instead you are staring at the same markets every session, it gets alot harder to extricate yourself from a particular bias or scenario you...

Made alot of sense, thanks for the detailed reply. Part of me shares the same attitude that I'm better off pretending there was no trading yesterday; more often than not, my opinions tend to close off half the opportunities the current session would offer, if I'm not already fighting a tape...

How much influence, if any, do you allow the previous day's action or chart/tape movement on a higher time-frame, in regards to your daytrading? Or do you prefer to wipe the slate clean of opinions and just focus on the present session? Or somewhere inbetween? As an aside, I've always held...

That was one nasty spike in the futures. I'm guessing some trades are getting broken.

Did the arbs go home?

You'd be surprised (or perhaps not so much) the lengths some personalities on this forum have gone in developing their online handles for the ultimate sake of selling something.

Do you prefer to keep things "intuitive" simply because you are not yet sure of what you are seeing or what you are responding to, or is it just a way for you to avoid actually hunkering down and making sure you're just not flipping coins and trading off half-baked hunches? Where are the...

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I don't know, I kinda like having 4 different seasons throughout the year. And not having to smile at strangers. :) Yes, I'm a Woody Allen fan.

I am definitely not a morning person; I've always felt the markets were somehow easier to read during the overnight sessions but I think it's just because my mind is much clearer at night as compared to the early morning. If I could live anywhere to trade, it would probably be Europe. I...

Wasn't Bernanke's idea some speech ago that if long-term rates remained low, the fed would need to raise more to counter that, and I assume vice-versa?

I wonder how much leverage the pit players at the CME have in pushing this market in the short term, especially in thin holiday trading. I mean, can they spend the whole session punishing some poor fool who shorted the low tick just to squeeze him out by the close?

What's the rush? EUR was above 1.23 just last week. My hunch is neither longs nor shorts make much headway today.

Do you usually play breakouts/breakdowns on aussie & kiwi?

Realtick time and sales has that, I'm sure they're not the only one.

Lemme guess, something like this? :) http://www.channelingstocks.com/testimonial.htm

People paying up $2 over the close for a stock like CERN? Are those prints for real?