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<i>"any day trading books which tell real life trading, not some basic setup based on technicals. i want to know for example, if you see GOOG is at this price/volume at this certain minute, how many shares will you buy/short? with a passive order to wait others fill your order, or with an active...

For sure, Seth! We're on the same page there :>) I only meant to say that a fixed dollar goal like $5,000 daily is not the right brass ring. Depending on the trader, symbol and account balance it might be a personal record day, or one profitable trade turned. The correct fixation is month...

<i>"coming ... more than the other gentleman who suggested trading 10 contracts at a time is no big deal"</i> A skilled emini trader can handle one contract per $5k balance. That is pretty much the same thing prop guys are doing with their $100k balance pushing several million $$ working...

$5,000 per day = 10 ER contracts @ +5pts That is no big deal in a $50,000 account balance, when a given session has normal to high volatility or range. A big deal is having your best month ever, followed by increasingly bigger months. Outlier days where we cannot make a mistake and price...

<i>"I'm a little late to the party, but great post whitster..."</i> Whitster is a very sharp guy... excellent communicator, too. Always enjoy reading every word of his stuff. There are quite a few intelligent, savvy "regulars" in the rather small pool of repeat viewers here. The OP will...

<b>reprint: </b><i>rasl, whether you traded today, next week or next month is totally irrelevant. Absolutely nothing is going to change as you continue down the same path as always. What you desperately need is professional counseling, right now. There is no hope for you to succeed in...

"<i>That's why I'm indexed till I get out of the graduate school of business"</i> Yeah, that'll make all the difference. Right. Good luck :cool:

<i>"so i can lose $1500 max,after all the losses <b>and having no life out side of trading in last 6 years"</b> "i dont know what to say. i did 1 trade this morning then after i read Lescor and your post i dident take next trade"</i> <b>rasl</b>, whether you traded today, next week or next...

<i>"here is the recap of my trades on thursday 15 feb 1st trade: short ym at 9.40 @12766 target 12756 ,stop 12775,trade weng againt me and to 12773 so i put ordr to exit12770 and get out for -4 ,normley i would have gone to hope mode and let the stop hit so good save. next 2 signles i...

<i>""A nation's progress can be judged by how they treat their animals."</i> As a lifelong hunter, fisherman and wildlife conservationist, I'm not a fan of bull fighting, dog fighting or chicken fighting at all. There is no place for any of that in this world, imo. That said, I do see...

<i>"The day is still young and I am bearish around 1259.50. Don't let the generals trick you."</i> I'm with ya. Shorted ES 1459 into the news, out at 1456 for +3pts. Was pretty sure they would not print 1460 :>)

I've traded the ER for 2.5 years, and agree with everything <b>Feb65</b> said... especially (emphasis) the part about being patient and intraday swings. ES, NQ and YM are much better suited for scalping. ER is too spiky - rangy for controlled tiny losses against small profits. It is the best...

<i>"SPY needs to be at $146 today to make the options worthless, so I say ES will go to 1461.75. It'll go down, but not today"</i> That was blatantly the day-long pin yesterday, and for that matter since 10:30am est Wednesday. Once the Bernanke blather was digested, 1460 pin has been...

<b>vhehn</b>, if the ES rises 380 points this year, we'll have to weigh our money instead of counting it. When's the last time we saw an annual range in the SPX of 400 points? Been awhile. All this hoopla about new all-time Dow highs, 3-Dow indexes closing at record highs, pom-poms etc and...

<i>"February 15, 2007 Number of NYSE New 52 Week Lows - 5 Number of NYSE New 52 Week Highs - 5 Pages I'll take your guru's view Vhehn."</i> Markets top on exhaustion of buyers. Where's the accelerated volume on those five pages? Where's the volume on indexes? Where's the massive...

<i>"I think austin was being sarcastic, but he'll correct if I'm wrong."</i> Oh yes... heavy on the sarcasm there. My apology it was missed :<( For the record, I feel like this is deja vue February 2000. All the same things I heard, read and saw back then are repeating now. Not saying the...

<i>"You gotta realize the frustration - you can look out the window and you can see, there's the gate, if you let us off the plane we can walk there," said Farrell."</i> I would have been off that plane in two hour's max. Absolutely no question about it.

<i>"CONGRATS AGAIN TO EVERYBODY THAT COLLECTED SOME RISK FREE $$$ IN THE DIP BUYING GAME TODAY"</i> Make sure ya don't spend it all in one place

Whatever... just let the ES advance further than +15pts in forty-one trading sessions for the sake of everyone still awake at their screens.

you sure seem to have a hard time finding something that works