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you gotta trade what u can that is one reason many people managing hyooge amounts of money can't beat the market (although I doubt you are there yet) :) . you can't beat the market, when u ARE the market. peter lynch talked about that iirc. personally, i trade futures (i invest in...

nobody doubts that trend following can work my point was that in a rotating market - it doesn't markets can go through long period without significant "trends" trend following does not suit my trading style, and i don't employ it, but i would never deny that a successful system can...

the spread on many SSF's suck, although if you bid in between the spread, on some of the more liquid ones, you can sometimes get filled i have used them occasionally for position plays

i set up a "portfolio" in QT where i am long one GLOBEX:@ESZ6 and short one CBOE:$SPX. the portfolio "total" will then be the premium (the difference in price between the futures and the cash index) simply chart that that is the premium right now it is at 4.38

"Dollar Cost Averaging only works as long as the long-term trend is up." as long as our economy, in the long run, continues to grow wealth, then the stock market, in the long run, will continue to go up nothing is guaranteed (not even FDIC insurance, if our govt. fails) but over the...

i have traded some corn. i really like it it is a very smooth market to trade. i prefer YM, and that is my bread and butter (cornbread otoh...)

they do provide TICK they do not provide TIKI they do not provide Premium, but it is relatively easy to setup and calculate i graph it by setting up a graph in QT that calculates the running difference between SPX (cash S&P 500) and the ES contract.

heck, a really skilled scalper can trade just off of the time sales. not even a chart. i've seen it done. now, THAT is somebody in tune with order flow. i mean, really, every chart and indicator you have (apart from trin, tick, etc. which are overall market guages) are derived from...

" Again, quality post. But I'm wondering, do you use 20+ setups for just intra-day trades," in regards to my futures trading (mostly YM but i do a little gold, oil and corn as well), i have about 22 setups (several "are similar enough to arguably be different versions of one setup. but there...

no, it's not illegal manipulation attempting to profit is not manipulation falsifying order flow by creating trade volume when there actually IS no trade volume (you are selling your own shares to yourself ) IS manipulation

another common misconception is that the "majority is always wrong" clearly, that is false. the majority was long during the LONG bull market of the 90's. MOST of the time they were right. fading them would have been dumb what IS true is that at market tops or bottoms, is usually...

none of what you said refutes my point . i'll repeat it. there has never been a 20 yr period in the history of the US market, where a dollar cost averaging strategy would not have given a return that beat inflation (and many if not most asset classes) note that looking at a performance OF...

the problem is partly one of paradigm. if you are a "trend follower", then rotating markets look like noise they aren't noise. so called rangebound, rotating, or whatever you want to call them "anti-trending" markets are just as tradeable as trending ones. it's a matter of applying the...

Ag Squawk sounds roughy like this "SELL MORTIMER SELL!!!!!!' :)

heck, at one point i was thinking about going to work for a state dept. contractor in Frigging BOSNIA (tax free salary!) granted, this was many years ago - before i discovered trading, and i was single, and ... but my point is that sacrificing a little present, for a much better future...

as futures traders, we are trading agreements. unlike stocks, they aren't THINGS (stocks are an actual piece of a company). many people taking the other sides of our trades are not price speculators (we are looking to profit from changes in the price of the futures contract), but are...

"I'm referring to generally speaking. EVEN if an investor made money over 20 years, the risk/reward when considering inflation, the amount of comissions, transaction charges (loads, etc) means IMHO that an "investor" in mutual funds has lost. (that is, in absolute terms they might have made...

it's not nitpicking, because unlike terms like "gambling", "investing" and such, the term ZERO SUM GAME has an exact, precise definition the term was invented by a theorist to describe an EXACT situation that is EXACTLY definable there are no nuances what most people (e.g. you) cannot...

"Those who are really a little lightly capitalized and not so skilful in trading that it doesn't matter at all" um... i am lightly capitalized (by some metrics ) because i have only been trading for a little over a year. it has nothing to do with skill. im a winning futures trader...

"As a trader, we create nothing, produce nothing, help no one" well, in a sense i guess that's true. otoh, i take my trading PROFITS and put them into good stocks, thus INVESTING in the american economy and the companies that make this country great. also, the losing traders provide...