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Do you look for all types of reversal candles... inverted hammer, doji etc or mainly a big hammer candle? Looking for clues that there was some capitulation and a base formed to trade from. It could be a rounded bottom, triangle, rectangle, etc. From experience I most often encounter 1 or...

Do you ever have the problem of price retracing to a S/R level but stopping short before reaching your entry and then turning back around and leaving you? You never know if price will reverse as it nears a major S/R/ line - If it's a trade I really want to be in I start watching shorter term...

I will take trades at major S/R based on the volume in relation to the previous volume of prior swings from that level. The largest price moves off S/R often have at least one or two rinse cycles to shake out the weak hands before price makes a large move. Wyckoff, in the 30's, wrote about the...

The CME wants to remove any transparency. A unique customer identifier allows the HFTs to gain a far greater advantage. With a unique I.D. they can learn a lot about each trader: how & what & when they trade, their pain threshold, their typical size, etc. The CME is run by a bunch of crooks...

Of course its real - the central banks have been juicing the market for years long after the end of QE. No free market here. http://www.gata.org/files/CMEGroupCentralBankIncentiveProgramFAQ.pdf...

Trading has enabled me to hit the waves on Maui whenever I want and funded my oversea travels. When I go shopping I now know the ticker symbol for every company - it's fun buying products you made profits from, like buying Colgate (CL) toothpaste when you just made a few grand trading it...

The Quants Run Wall Street Now Those with big bankrolls run Wall Street. Quants are a dime a dozen. Beside the edge that enables them to dominate the spreads is from the corruption on the exchange - being able to pay up for faster data feeds and colo their servers to front run order flow and...

Ooops - your'e right, only get delayed data from IB on the DX without the ICE subscription.

Sorry but I disagree that most in the stock market are losers - in a bear of flat market that would be true. In a strong bull market the vast majority of the public is making profits. Most employees have a portion of their paycheck deposited into a 401K long on ETFs or funds that track the...

“The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.” - Ed Seykota

Here is 20 years of Soybeans (S) up to 2015. Some people may put more weighting on the most recent years - you can check your charts to fill in from 2015 to present. http://charts.equityclock.com/soybeans-futures-s-seasonal-chart

There is a lot of wisdom that can be learned from a market wizards - wizard, into his 5th decade trading.

A review of the profitable accounts at the larger Forex brokers typically shows about 40-50% of all accounts in a given quarter are profitable. The problem with Forex is not trading it since many are making profits, the problems are the bad Forex brokers - there are some which are regulated and...

$10k makes that less of a consideration? $10k is deeply under capitalized for trading futures currencies, at least as a sustainable business with sound risk mgmt. With a small account of $10k the trader can size down with Forex and have a far better chance of making it. Novice traders trade...

Peter Brandt is considered on of the best futures traders spanning the last 4 decades. He also trades Forex. I use a pass through U.S. regulated brokers and have less issues with Forex fills than I do with futures & stocks thanks to the HFTs front running orders. Like Brandt, I am also a...

Thank you, but what about the split/merge adjustments and suvirvorship bias free requirements? Are they managed by Tradestation? Corporate events like splits are not in the raw data that can be exported. You could plot some of the corporate events onto the charts with TradeStation. As far as...

Volume is the wind in the sail that causes price trends to start and stop. It has more significance with stocks than with futures due to a stocks float. Volume proceeds price - this is an undisputed concept spanning many decades among informed traders. Volume leaves tell tale foot prints at...

You can hit big gains going casino mode- where you throw risk mgmt aside and luck out briefly walking the risk of ruin. What impresses me are not the many shooting stars, hot for a short time until they blow up but those with decent consistent gains & minimal draw downs over the long haul -...

TradeStation has real good historical charting going back as far as 50 years. You can capture and export to a CVS file the daily or intra-day open/close/low/high/volume.

A con needs a greedy victim to pull off their scam on.