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you can't even teach me to dance. but there is one thing you can help me with, something I've always wondered, something I never could relate to what's it feel like to be a coward? I mean, what does it feel like inside, knowing you are hiding behind your 27th alias on a public message...

no, I don't have a God complex. I'm just a simple man who trades. I'm also 1/2 English (Warner) which may explain my poor italiano. forgive the misspelling there, if you will as for the trader part, I'll happily post trading results every day in the P&L thread right alongside you, real...

Listen lady... I really like your music and all, especially the way your hips don't lie. But if you keep insisting on taking my name in vain, please get your facts straight. Nowhere on earth have I ever talked about +8pts of anything per day, never have losing days, etc. Capiche'? Go...

I don't know about Al, but I sure as hell do not and never will belong to the 1-pt ES scalper crew. Nor will I ever sit up all night at the screens trying that in globex hours. I do know I like CL trading very much, and only a fool would settle for +$50 contract trading that symbol. back...

yes, yes... exactly right ;)

You've got an awful lot left to learn about trading price action. That is most obvious to me of all ;)

I have no dog in the hunt with Al Brooks or anyone else. If he streams real-time charts, points out where price is likely to trade, points out where action zones are, points out where potential entries exist and why, explains trade management choices and why, explains exit decisions and why...

Whether someone has read any certain book or not is irrelevant: if a supposed trader running a live room operation cannot stream live charts and mark out trade-entry action points with precision AHEAD of time, they are fraudulent. A live room operation hinges upon streaming live charts and...

which is exactly, precisely what the next step is once any trader has a real, true, no-doubt defined trading edge first step is finding an edge. second step is honing that edge thru trade management => self management third step is growing trade size in harmony with account balance. no...

let me rephrase that: imo I'm skeptical that anyone but super-human traders such as bighog could average +1,000 to +1,500 cents per CL contract on a monthly basis over time... say a year or three straight. that would require max effort and performance without relent straight thru without...

imo a skilled, experienced CL trader might be able to average somewhere between +1,000 cents and +1,500 cents in a 20-session month trading one (1) contract on the high side of performance. but I'm skeptical it can be done for long periods of time... that would require peak performance...

I'll chime... I've used TradeStation charts since 2002 and Ninja charts since 2005. Both are excellent platforms. TS has some costs involved regardless of your status as a client or not. Historical data is unmatched and the ability to research years if not decades backward in time is...

CL just happens to be one of the cleanest, technically trading tapes there is. All currency markets trade much purer than stocks, so do commodity markets. CL is best of both worlds. There is no other symbol like it... not even a distant second by comparison. I half-understand the lingo...

I've spent a lot of time watching CL time & sales (not dome bid/ask) flow to gauge what type of size is scaleable before slippage is a constant issue. I consider shown bid/ask to be worthless information and only executed trades on time & sales to be of any value. You can see a lot of...

Donna, skilled CL traders simply cannot afford to trade emini markets right now. There just isn't enough money on the table in ES to justify taking focus away from CL. In the not-too-distant future, that will change. There will be sessions later this year with intraday ranges wider than all...

market movers are the commercial end-users of commodities, large speculators such as mutual funds, hedge funds, etc and lately the U.S. Federal government market followers are retail traders. we are the tails of the dog... we will never collectively wag the dog over any large amount of time...

It is impossible to negate a true "edge" in trading if that edge is based on price action itself. There is no possible way that any number of retail traders collectively can affect long-term price action in any underlying market or symbol with liquidity. Let's use an example that I personally...

I have accounts with Mirus and Global Futures, both are excellent imo day-trade margins and Ninja platforms, all electronic commodity futures contracts available, etc

An example from today's ZS: Price be-bopped sideways for the first three hours, with the 1422 ~ 1423 zone being the pivotal congestion area on swings either way. Around 1pm it began to push higher from the magnetic zone, a key time in this market being 1pm into the 2:15pm close of pit...

Now that CL trading is closed while ES trading session never opened to begin with today, let me share a couple of learnings per the grain futures #1: When grain futures make big trend days, it is a steamroller. Huge money to be made repeatedly hitting the trend. Grain futures are the...