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I do too, and I appreciate his response to everyone's blah, blah, blah. Carry on! :D

I'm still a fairly new trader (less than 2 years experience), but here's my take on it: Every trading book/reference I've read concludes that the "amateurs play the open and professionals play the close". Every one of these books/references advises against trading the first 20-30 minutes...

I've ONLY sim traded CL, but have been doing this for a couple months now, very profitably (as in 5 losing trades over several weeks of 2-5 day trades). I've tested several strategies over these weeks and the "safest" one has been to wait for the market to open and follow the trend that's in...

+ $40 Just a couple live trades today. Short ANF @ 39.57 pullback from lower high beneath a falling EMA, out for +$10 on quick pivot off .42. Offered 39.71 ANF which was where price would reach the 10-period MA, where it should then continue the downtrend if intact. Price only reached...

+ $40 Just a couple small live trades today, mainly sim ES scaling strategies and CL trend following practice.

+$133 Day +$2797 Month ES ORB bar was too large and “middling” (as in: ranged between overnight S/R in a market with no real news driver) for me to play, so I stayed on the sideline. Retailers weak today and ANF surprisingly weak against the backdrop of an analyst upgrade, so I...

+$133 Day +$2797 Month Traded way too small size today.

When GMCR gapped from 35.15 to 42.25 on 4/30 and ran to 52.75 that day, did it come back? When MTXX spiked down from 19.22 to 5.48 in a few minutes on 6/16, did it come back? When AIG ran from 13.50 to 23.00 on 8/5 did it come back? I imagine if you're extremely well-capitalized, you...

In my trading, when very small stop losses are triggered and the trade then starts to move in what would've been my favor, I usually get right back in. I used to sometimes trade stocks in a certain direction based on a strong opinion and I would get in right away with a wide stop, or with the...

I'd been watching the pre-market action for a good 2 hours before the open and saw a lot of indecision, BUT a strong support zone established around @ 75. I sold short not long before the open because I liked how previous support (around the 81 zone from a few days back) had become resistance. I...

Yes, I've been admiring how you and Ammo scale into longs and shorts in the same week, both make money. You can't pick tops and bottoms (ok, sometimes you can), but one thing's for sure, price goes up and price comes down! As for that exit @ 97, I had my finger on the sell trigger @ 96.75 for...

Thanks, Hog. Not only that 10 handle run up, but the nearly 10-handle fall from grace once the test of the high failed. Happy belated birthday :cool:

I take it you use 30 pt stops...

LMAO! Ammo has vision and patience. I think he told me, "Don't try this at home." :D

+ $115 Day + $577 Week + $2664 Month Short ES @ 1080.75 shortly before the open when bounce off a higher low failed, leaving a shooting star. Covered right after the bell on the pivot from below the lower channel line @ 1078.50 for +$107.70. Missed the ORB which was a nice long setup...

+ $115 Day + $577 Week + $2664 Month Shaken out of ANF, then never got back in, scalp ES premarket and then missed the ORB; too many distractions today.

All you had to do this morning was click on "trades" in IB and there will be a list of every BOT and SLD. Since you didn't provide that, I don't believe your big numbers. Also the fact that your GC trade the other day was not a possible ACTUAL P/L # out of IB with their GC commission structure...

Post your GC trade Time & Date stamp out of IB right now and I'll reconsider your integrity.

Yeah post your screen shot of the trades with the time & date stamp and we'll believe this one. Post it quickly, now, no time for Paint.

It's just that comments like this that make us roll our collective eyes. If you think you can reveal an edge that will influence one of the most liquid instruments available to trade with an ET post explaining your rationale behind a market prediction, you come across as quite more than a...