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More odd while it was happening. The point is this, when your significant other one gets involved in your trading...you better have your psychological hat on and be prepare because if you fail...a lot of other things will go down with it. I know some advise not sharing your career as a trader...

Spouses can be tough on a trader if you don't have their full support...they are tougher than some topsteptrader combine. When I met my spouse...she was living in a different country. We started a long distance relationship and would take vacations to several different ski resorts each year...

It doesn't matter if you want to compare yourself to professional traders working for financial institutions or retail traders that are trading their own capital or prop firm traders. I wouldn't be concerned about how large the penis is of the other guy that's taking a piss next to you in the...

All scratch trades cost you money. Commission & fees to get into the trade, commission & fees to get out of the trade and other costs that many forget about.

What got you interested in volume base charts considering they're less commonly used ?

In the prior many threads about the same topic...someone else said they were going to do just that... Take "piece of the puzzle" (a.k.a. excerpt) and make a trade method out of the excerpt to see if the actual trade method could provide scientific validation or quantifiable validation when in...

Due to algorithms...in my opinion trading via the DOM (depth of market or market depth) is no longer adequate. I hear people once in awhile talk about the DOM but I haven't met anyone in about 5 years that actually uses the DOM to help improve their entries or exits. I'm sure there's some...

I'm curious if this implies you have up on your screen at the same time...charts of Crude CL futures and Emini NQ futures. 1) You're looking at the prior trading day before today's Open to determine which you will trade for the day. 2) You keep both charts up and trade which ever gives a trade...

How did you do in Emini NQ or Crude CL futures the past 5 trading days ? Edit: The past several trading days via your own posts here at ET...you've been trading Crude CL futures. Just before that, you announced that Crude CL futures had better price movement than both NQ and ES. Therefore...

1) Finish school or transfer to a university that also has trading rooms for business students 2) Stay away from penny stocks 3) Save your money for your starting capital 4) Do internships at a financial institution that has trading floors Hopefully, with a degree, internships, some job...

If you guys miss brother marketsurfer so much...just go to twitter and join the cryptocurrencies discussions where he's talking and posting charts (coinbase dashboard app) of bitcoins from his iphone/ipad since early May...around the time he disappeared from ET. At least we know he's not...

There use to be two magazines that publish statistics on the top 10 - 20 liquidity trading instruments and top 10 - 20 volume trading instruments in the world. Stocks & Commodities magazine did the monthly lists and https://fimag.fia.org did the annual lists. Both no longer do these lists and...

Hi, Sorry to hear about your prior problems and brain injury. Yeah, soon after my release from rehab...I discover similar information that most people by the time they've reached 50 years old will have suffer brain injury known as TBI and not even know about it. For example, hockey players...

You don't need to watch the "show" about the Kardashians. The fact that you mention them implies you're aware of them...most likely via the news outlets. I've actually met a few people that have never heard of the "Kardashians", "Tom Brady, "Beyonce", "Pink Floyd", "Charles Manson", "John Wayne...

I don't re-write the writings. Most is just copy/paste. As for my diary, I'm sure you know how they are although I converted from a hand writing diary to a private online diary about 6 years ago that allows printing. Yeah, I'm a fast typist. I had two years of typing class in high school. The...

1) Heart rate, blood pressure (once 30mins before trading, once after a few trades, once within 30min after trading) I use to compete in sports (international) as a youth. Its an old habit I've picked up but still find it useful to understand the physical changes from trading. Most trading days...

Its simple. Backtest the "all session data" that you have for Crude Oil CL futures. Next, let the results of your backtest tell you when is the best time to trade Crude Oil CL futures via when you're most likely profitable. For example, you're asking people online (strangers) that are using a...

Not possible since the "beginning of time". Seriously, we were just microbes in the beginning of time although religious people have a difference of opinion of what we were like in the beginning of time. :p

I've seen the difference between movie theaters from one city to another and from one country to another. The ones that are thriving are connected to shopping areas, fast food restaurants, game rooms, free coat hanging services, baby changing area, crying baby/kid area that allows you still to...

Yeah, leverage and margin abuse for the Emini ES futures is another reason...encourage by the brokers via their $400 margins especially when volatility is low and declining number of traders.