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you can know the probabilities of winning or losing. you can know your average win size. ^ what is missing from every trader's arsenal, is obtainable. trading is simple, timing and accuracy is not.

I am having a huge problem with MultiCharts right now, it seems that the data will not stay updated in MultiCharts at all. They have continually had data problems maybe it's because they accept some manay data sources that they don't do any of them very well.

check your trades and see what the average winning trade profit is. then trade multiple contracts and at the 75% of the average winning trade profit take off 25% of the contracts. then if you spike 125% of average profits take off another 25% of the contracts. now with the remaining contracts...

you can't make a living and survive you have to kill it to make a living.

http://stanfinney.com/

no problems spot light back on you.

SP/ES almost exclusively since it was trading 250 wow now 2500, others i have would include US30, Bund and anything that is super liquid and has aftermarkets, the more hours the better. I also dabble in bitcoin since it started and love that it is active 24/7. Maybe one day these Crypto's...

automated / go to the market / i get positive slippage usually on the counter trend trades and on the trend trades they are in momentum moves that usually never look back.

signs of a market top? code phrase for "it's another buy signal boys!"

here is the deal -- trade one market with four states buy/sell chop and buy/sell trend coupled with precise entries and a regime change engine. forget trading any market but one or two super liquid ones. be done with it, focus on one thing and kill it. otherwise starve with what a shotgun...

we did business with pete back in the early 90's he was a great guy then, worked his ass off for us. they specialized in execution, mercury something was the name... then we took over a bank and everything went to crap.

what is volume? 50/100/200/500? on a per trade basis (each side) of course. or how do you figure it?

and to think i have a laptop. :banghead:

Underlying themes I see repeatedly in the world of automated trading. There are many reasons others I'm sure could add to this basic list, but below are some of the ones I run across on a consistent basis. There is no perfected predefined expectation of outcome. Data itself is flawed and...

want to have a trading contest right here on elite trader? r u chickenshit?

great i need a customized buy sell adl thingy - i will have to detail all the rules but it will hopefully just be a hit the buy button and the trade will manage itself. so i have a automated system running in multicharts but currently using tradestation data will probably switch over to tt data...

the reason all these fail is not as much the indicator as it is the data you put it on. Pirelli P Zero Corsa on a Pinto Station wagon, still going to crash and burn. there is a best indicator but y'all don't have it. lol

i remember him so well the cumulative tick count thing reminded me so much of the td count indicator and other high powered guru's in the day. but i will say it made me look and study hard and my leg muscles got firm chasing after shit like that. lol

trading, gambling, any business can be run in the ground from lack of discipline, experience and as others have said an edge. if you have no edge, how can you have anything else that is required to support success?

you have created a LIE and are running with it. lol fabricator!