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I thought I saw it but wasn't sure. I hit "back" on my browser and reload a couple times until it showed up again. I lol'ed. How efficient??????

Are you in USA? There are at least a couple brokers who have less than $5 round trip all inclusive.

What's your round turn rate? Yet another reason I hate scalping.

What do you trade then, Forex? I've actually heard Forex trends better than stocks and futures.

How do you know when a pullback is happening versus just the "noise" that is always going on ("noise" being random movement +/- 1 point from anywhere). I suck at reading charts and knowing what is going on so I can only see a pullback if a moving average starts to go the other way and tells...

I don't like scalping. Seriously. I want to buy at the beginning of a trend and ride it to the end and make a decent profit with 1 round trip and low commission. That's what I WANT to do. But every time I ride a trend I either end up calling the top (or the bottom), or I get stopped out...

Oh, I use SierraChart for charting because I don't like OECs charts. But SC doesn't allow you to place orders through OEC, so I have to use OEC's charts for placing my orders. I could just use OEC's DOM for placing orders but for whatever reason when I enter with market orders off the DOM...

Damn there were some trends at the end there that kind of make this "do the opposite of what you would normally do" method pretty hard. My ES opposite "system" did ok today. I probably would have lost money if it was my real account because I did some stupid stuff like open positions with 44...

Alright so I just closed a position of 44 ES contracts. Good thing I wasn't using a real account (I don't even think I have enough buying power to buy 44 contracts in my real account... how much would that take?). So I need to establish parameters for when to bail on a trade instead of...

I have a setting saved called "SPM" but it was pretty worthless. It was like MACD and a 2 or 3 SMA shifted to the right (or left?) by two ticks. Like most "systems" it wasn't even complete because it did not have every single possible scenario accounted for with instructions written out...

The YM trade that I left open yesterday (the one that wasn't closed out on page 2 of the PL I posted) was protected by a stop last night after normal trading hours ended, and when I woke up this moring it was about 200 ticks in my favor. So that one is still going and I've adjusted by stop to...

i'll keep doing it (in a demo account) until the end of the month and update this thread with my results.

I dunno dude. Honestly. Look at the bottom of page one. I bought up to 9 ES contracts (holy shit what was I thinking) and then at the top of page two I sold them all for less than 1 tick profit (average cost). That's not good trading, is it? That seems more like me getting pissed and...

How does one know if it's going to be a congestion day or not?

Would you consider today "choppy?" Please post a pic of this "triangle." I don't even know what choppy means anymore. I define "choppy" as "when following the slope of a MA wouldn't be profitable," but any time I have a choppy day I just change the MA value and it's not choppy anymore...

To make matters worse, I only trade 1 contract because my account isn't that big and I don't have a 100% mechanical, profitable strategy yet (which is something I need to feel confident trading larger size). Yet you can see a few times when I went higher than 1 contract, like 4, or 9. That...

I just made more in a few hours today than in my entire first YEAR of "buy and hold" with stocks.

Don't ask me questions or ask what my strategy was because I have no clue. I literally made myself do the opposite of everything I thought I should do. This shit makes no sense.

srsly. I have no idea wtf was going on today. page 2

I just basically do the opposite of what I would normally do and this is the result. Short uptrends and go long on down trends. Is this "reversion to mean?"