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As of January 16th: Stop Order will be called Stop-on-Quote Order. Stop Limit Order will be called Stop-Limit-on-Quote Order. Trailing Stop Order will be called Trailing Stop-on-Quote Order

Tax benefits. In fact, there only negatives of futures are: 1) forces you into leverage. Want less than $12.50 per tick on the ES? Too bad. 2) they expire. Want to hold a position for 6 months? You'll have to buy and sell periodically when each contract rolls over.

They can't all be $40k trades.

1/8: QLD: $806

So you can do that every month? Why not start a journal thread and post live calls?

I never understood how people trade for 1-2 ticks. That's just noise. How much do you let a position go against you when you're just aiming for 1-2 ticks?

Lots of haters in this thread and he hasn't even started posting trades yet. If you start trading with your strategy, I'm interested to see how it goes. I'm also curious to see Busta21's $10,000 month easy crude oil strategy. Did I miss his journal thread with real time calls?

I hadn't heard of it so I Googled "gold adjusted s&p" and found that. I didn't really read the whole article. Is it legit or is it just crazy stuff?

Are you talking about this stuff? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/03/sp-cycles-1928/ Here's an image from that post:

1/4: QLD: $816.

You can apply that same logic to people selling indicators, too. If that indicator really worked, you wouldn't need to sell it for $197 to random people on the internet :D

1/3: QLD: $900

I have been long QLD since Nov 8 (posted in real time in my journal thread).

Is this a temporary gap up or should we be going all in on a long position?

Cliffs Notes on what you guys are talking about?

1/2: QLD: $1,008

That requires having a target profit that is further away than the target stop, which is just another way of saying "because x happened, price is more likely to do y than to do z." In other words, it's predicting. But cheers to anyone who can make it work for them :)

No, as I stated above, I meant predict. "Following" doesn't work because the trend that everyone likes to follow can reverse at any point. Let's assume you have defined some conditions that allow you to label a trend the moment it begins. You can now say "we previously were not in a trend...

12/27: QLD: $84

For the sake of keeping my journal up to date. Also, gap down outta nowhere today :eek: