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+ $6 Worked on ATS through the morning. Excellent results of +$900 on 100 share lots. I think the tweaking is about done, a few more test days and we go live! Scratched a couple trades in the doldrums and now have to take off. Make some money into the close!

Hog, awesome work! I've "cheated" in sim a few times, averaging down, or moving my stop a bit when the price action got "that look" to it. Interestingly, it's always worked out, but I have difficulty doing that live because of getting burned in the past. OK, I need to pound my head against my...

+ $84 Worked in sim and live today, wanting to sim trade Dec crude because I’ve been really enjoying trading crude and when my account’s a little bigger and can handle the stops needed to survive the trades, I will be all over it. The day started quite badly. Late yesterday I’d...

+ $84 Started badly with an $88 loss right off the open, but did very well to turn that around. After beige book I had a scratch trade on ES (trailing 1 pt stop again), then called it a day because the market had clearly turned to mush, or so I thought. Came back later and had to hit...

No, no, no. The moment a support level is broken, it's a buy signal. Cramer says, "Buy every dip!

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+ $79 Very limited trading today. Wish I'd put a 5 pt stop on my ES trade before I left the office. Instead of a 1 tick scratch trade, I would've returned to a nice 5 pt profit. On the other hand if I returned to see myself stopped out, I would've wished I'd done what I did do, which was...

I am so ADD. I keep thinking sleepy markets will last longer than they do and then I miss my entries and setups a lot. Anyhow, +$79 today on very limited trading, pretty much only the early morning. GAP was top of my short list for the open. I was actually tempted to short in pre-market...

I agree, the OTM call strategy is a solid one as we get closer to exp. This one also seems to be a strong buy on any significant breach of the trend line. It rallied hard off the $54 area last time it looked like the trend was over.

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I attached a piece of the ES 5 min chart showing what I saw early on and describing how I missed confirmation of the possible long signal (doji well below the lower Keltner). IB's charting doesn't allow me to display a 1 day chart after the market closes so I had to extract a piece of a 2-day...

Holy Half-Caf Raspberry Mocha Chip Frappuccino, dddog!!! He's very likely forming a club that meets at McCafe and discusses sim tactics for slow-moving stocks trapped in eternal ranges. McBang :confused: :confused: :confused:

Earnings: http://www.briefing.com/GeneralContent/Investor/Active/ArticlePopup/PagePopup.aspx?PageId=3270 Econ Calendar: http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/EconomicCalendar.htm

No worries, Star!!! I'm here to help out!!! My 200 sim cars I bought into strength @ 1085 the other day are sizzlin'!!! So here's the plan: I'll just hold my position until your 100 short cars become profitable!!! See trading doesn't have to be a zero sum game!!! BANG!!!!!!!!!!

+ $160 Although it was nice to see ANF cut to sell this morning (yeah, that 70 P/E seemed bit excessive to me, too), I figured that was just secret Wall Street code for “Blue Horseshoe LOVES Abercrombie & Fitch”, so I trailed a fairly close stop on the open, hit on a quick pivot off...

+ $160 Only a few tiny trades, but pleased with my results.

Did you get stopped out a few minutes ago??? My finger's on the trigger ready to short as soon as you close your position :p

Yeah, it's what the greatest number of people THINK that drives the markets. When I see retailers hitting 5 year highs and many more near Oct 2007 highs, it seems fundamentally irrational. When I see a coffee wholesaler trading at a P/E of 60, it seems fundamentally irrational. Sure...

Vesp, it's a sign of your maturity as a trader the way you channeled your anger into the keyboard, which, unlike your monitors, windows and children, is an inexpensive and easily replaceable item! (I tried to trade SPNG a few months ago through PowerEtradePro and despite hitting the offer 3...

Every trade is a gamble because we can't precisely predict the future. Good traders play when the odds are in their favor. I think people here are using the word "gambling" to indicate playing Roulette and choosing black or red. The majority of stocks rise nicely after an analyst upgrade and...