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You're on a roll today. That flies bit was the funniest thing I've read all week.

If you were a full-time Forex trader, wouldn't you spend a lot of time in bars?

This is sort of off-topic, but I just happened to run across it and thought some might find it interesting: What’s the Easiest E-mini to Trade?

How about Male Escort?

In re the above post, the following charts were posted before the jobs report and after the end of the session. What now?

Charts of the five most heavily-weighted stocks were posted here before the jobs report on Friday. Below are the same five charts after the end of the session:

"I'm retired".

Instead he provides it. I wonder how many people were long on Friday? :confused:

Fathomable. Unfathomable. :)

This "don't watch your P&L" business that I mentioned earlier apparently needs some clarification. There is a deja-vu-what-difference-does-it-make aspect to simtrading, however unconscious it may be, that prompts detractors to claim that simtrading is useless. And, if it is not conducted...

You're not missing the point at all. If you can watch price constantly, may as well trade the 1m. However, I get a lot of people who work and students, neither of whom has any business trading something they can't watch. Risk management is stressed in the SLA but there are no prescriptions...

I suggest that rather than introduce additional elements to the decision-making process, each of which would have to be backtested and forwardtested in isolation in order to control the variable, a more efficient and expedient alternative would be to follow the rules more closely. In this...

Trendlines can be applied to anything. Whether or not they provide any information that is tradeable is another matter. Trend channels can only be applied to mean-reverting instruments. Both the NQ and ES qualify. Not much. I want to know how long traders are holding in a certain area...

All the illustrations in the SLA section of the pdf use hourly charts.

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Then don't even think about going live. Until you can get through the session by trading your plan without regard to your ongoing P&L AND maintain the stats you think you have, you're not ready. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trading this way for a few weeks.

Do you monitor the balance in your demo account while you're trading?

What are the results of your demo trading?

Depends on what the individual wants. If he's determined his goals and objectives and he's characterized each market, choosing the best one is a relatively simply matter.

It originated with Wm Paley, tho not in that exact form. It was later modified into the current form by Wm Poole.