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If some of you people would bother to actually read someone's post, none of this mis-information would be floating around. My god, how many times do I have to say this? I have traded -- I've traded stocks, bonds, options -- I traded plenty of options in 99 and 2000 -- (can you understand...

Thank you! I will be starting with $5,000 and using esignal for my datafeed and Interactive Brokers as my broker. I will be trading one contract (obviously) and using price action, charts, TRIN, TICK and several other indicators. I will also be using a few moving averages, but that is the...

def, Thanks. That is what I thought. You da man.

With all due respect, the amount of leverage on one contract with 5 thousand dollars is directly in proportion to the amount of leverage of 10 contracts with 50 thousand dollars. If there is no slippage concerns, then the only difference that I can see is that everything is 10x, but the risk...

The time has now come. The check should arrive any day. What does this mean? It means that I am going to be trading ES future contracts and posting the results of my trading each day here in my journal. To give you some background, I have traded in the past but had to eventually stop due...

Is slippage really that bad in real trading with 10 contracts on ES?

I was curious what pre-trading rituals people have? I am going to start trading ES futures in about a week or so and I think I'm going to go to the gym around 6:30am and do some running to get the blood flowing before I come back and sit in front of the screen all day. Does anyone have any...

Oldtrader, Thank you. I'm not going to quit. It just gets annoying that some people have so much spare time on their hands, that they have to count the number of someones posts and constantly make comments on it. There is an ignore feature that is easy to use, yet some people would...

That is dumb. 10 contracts are supposed to be $20,000 odd dollars on margin. A $50,000 account value should be a good minimum to trading 10 contracts for some cushion (depending on risk profile). However, if IB required $300,000 net worth to trade 10 contracts, I might as well just buy the...

If we go to war with Iraq and create yet another power vaccum in the middle-east, we're just trading more problems down the road by delaying some now. The only solution to this problem is to rid ourselves of the need for oil from that region. It is going to be 2003 -- where are the...

Oh ... one more thing. If you are pervious to the latest in female rap music, you will find that women are now talking about using guys for sex, stealing their cash and then kicking them to the curb. Little Kim comes to mind. She sings, in often very vivid terminology, how to work a guy...

If you have the money to pay the initial margins for the contracts, you should be fine. You have to adjust the maximum limit in your account settings. As you make more money (hopefully), you will be able to trade more contracts. Am I right Def?

I think women are beautiful -- even though I'll never understand them. However, there are some women that are "super-liberalists" that really piss me off. Once, I went on a date with this girl and I opened the door for her and she said, "hey, I can open my own doors." Then, we ate dinner (for...

May also be the accountability involved. When was the last time you had an argument with a woman you were in a sexual relationship with and eventually won the argument? There is no winning an argument with a woman -- because they are always right. However, the market is not one to so easily...

Lightningsmurf, I am assuming you are talking about me. If enough people feel as you do, I won't contribute to this board any longer. I will take my time and go elsewhere and nobody here will have ever benefited from seeing another journal being created. If the mentality of this board is...

daniel_m, You are as charming as ever. "Old dude?" Come on, show some respect for people.

OPTIONAL777, You're right. I've neglected to notice that I've exceeded the allowable number of posts per day here on Elite Trader. Thank you so much for pointing this out to me.

lol -- "The Jedi Traders." I think you just found a good name for a new book. May the force be with you. (Btw, your name should now be ESZ2. Get with the times. ;)

Babak, There is no shortage of really dumb people in this world.

This is true -- that's why I said many and not all. I'm watching your "simplistic system" thread with peaked curiousity. You've taken a rather unique approach to trading ES that may work very well for you over time.