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OT. I am curious to know if you intraday day ES as well as position trade it and by this I include the overnight hold. I am not concerned with the strategies, I am only interested to know if you do both with ES. regards f9

fair enough regards f9

The sheer ingenuity of mankind never ceases to amaze me Duref. I have forwarded my recommendation to S&P and they have confirmed their re-rating on you. You are now officially the Monkey Market Maker. may the force of the monkey be with you. f9

Deep hard stops I am missing something here. If you have a deep hard stop but never use it, then what is the point of the stop. If you have a deep hard stop in place as an emergency only, then be aware that it will probably require a trend change to take it out and your brave little stop...

I take it that you have a buy and hold strategy in place on monkey futures. Just a question if I may Do you roll the contracts forward or are you taking physical delivery. cheers f9

Mins, Maybe another way at looking at this thread is simply as an exchange of ideas and opinions and forget the posted trades. Occasionally something comes up from a Poster that reinforces the direction in which you are traveling, or gives you a lightbulb moment that kicks your lateral...

At all times. I have the utmost respect for ES and treat it as I would treat any extremely dangerous animal. regards f9

I basically run two strats. One for congestion and one for when the ball is in play. Yes I must confess to trading congestion. regards f9

This is the second excellent quote of the day and the day has hardly begun. An intraday ES trader using soft stops is either yet to trade live, or is living on borrowed time. It seems to me that people are merging the buy zone/ sell zone setup and the actual entry into one blurred...

Reads well Mins. How many auto strategies do you have. regards f9

Mins, fair enough. regards f9

Mins Are you trading breakouts or fades. regards f9

Well said Sir ...... the quote of the day. regards f9

I imagine that most people fail at trading because they simply have no idea what they are doing or indeed who they really are. This in no way implies criticism, it is just that there is no entry criteria into the world of trading. The pass rate for commercial pilots is quite high I imagine...

Got that, many thanks. You are basing your 10 - 36 tic stops on the volatility of the trading day. regards f9

Very interesting LonUST . How do you gauge from one day to the next what the volatility will be and therefore what depth of stop you will apply. regards f9

Excellent commentary all Have you tried lying the monkeys on their side to remove any vertical bias. I believe that Laura is getting excellent results with G. anyway just a thought cheers f9

True true just so true TD and therein lies the danger of the volume virus. The more you knock it back the less it appears. cheers f9

Did you guys catch those two bounces off the RTH open line this morning. It's typical ES openline behavior and encourages nice tight stops for you and when runs it runs. regards f9

Thank you for your attention Oil Traders. Does anyone know the ratio of physical delivery to total contracts traded or where I might find it. many thanks regards f9