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Ksonsinc: Let me just add that $200 in a day is not that tuff if you got into a lucky trade. The challenge lies with your statement “$200 a day X 5 days = $1000 a week” which implies strict consistency; day in and day out, every trading session. Achieving that requires the suite of...

The market is your play ground Trade your Yen or trade your Pound Be careful of what you choose One mistake and you will lose Should you buy or should you sell Everything’s done by the closing bell Greed and fear is what they say Discipline, thou must not stray The market is...

Nothing wrong with that. On rollover days like today, I just put up both the June and the Sep charts side-by-side. The June chart offers some perspective for the Sep chart. Usually by 10 or 10:30, there’s enough meaningful bars for me to work with and go forward in my setups. Kermit

Why not take just a portion of your position off at 624.90 (if your doing more than 1 contract) and let the rest run? That way, you can work with your $$$$ target AND expand your earning potential. Have your cake and eat it too. Kermit

Hi Vivian, I admire your courage and candidness. Trading is a challenging enough endeavor unto itself. To add to the mix, to what is in your mind, that other people (especially from the anonymous public) might think negatively of you based on your posts is perhaps extra pressure you...

Hmmm… sounds to me like you can use that stop level, whenever you get it, change it instead to a limit order and go the other way as an entry. Leave your stop size the same relative to your entry and see if it makes any difference in your performance. Kermit

Brooks, If it’s just one market (YM), probably, if you don’t have the patience. That’s why I apply my system on multiple markets, ER2, EC, YM, TY. Research, enhance my system’s code (there’s always work to be done in that area), read or listen to music. Can be hard at...

Try AutoIt’s scripting language for automating the Windows GUI so you don’t have to type things in by hand any more (via mouse and keystroke simulation). As to how exactly to interface with your Web-based order entry, you’d have to experiment with it...

You mean like this? <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=759116> Wonder if Fipertec’s got this patented already or not. :confused:

I concur. That’s been my experience too.

It’s the single click, static ladder order entry ability.

I too have read his book (before there was the online pdf version) and debated for the longest time in my mind about how to take profits (for my style, that is). I have come to settle upon a strategy to scale in AND scale out of contracts rather than an all-or-none approach. Basically...

Hi gdtrader: Don’t know if this will help: It basically scans for the highest price and the lowest price between the first bar on the chart and the last bar on the chart and records at which bar each took place (absolute) and how far ago they took place from the current last bar on the...

Externally imposed discipline (i.e. software limiting the number of contracts, or brokers stopping you from placing further orders after a certain amount of loss, etc.) will only go so far and does not cure the problem. When the "urge" becomes strong enough, you will likely find ways around...

Have you tried cleaning up your registry to regain speed of your Windows? Check this utility out. It’s called RegSupreme. http://www.macecraft.com/

Here’s more dynamic and convincing mind tricks: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/

Flashboy: Have you considered just letting the computer implement your trades? If your rule clearly says to take a long after a higher high and a lower high, that is relatively easy to code and have the program fire off the buy order when that condition is satisfied. There’ll be no...

Oh, okay, I see. Thanks. Kermit

Hi Tradersaavy, Just curious, why would your system not work as well for up-trending days than in down-trending days? If you were to turn your chart upside down (and mask out the price and time of the X and Y axis – so your eye won’t be allowed to convince your mind that it’s an...

Tradersaavy, I too have noticed such inconsistencies in tick data between these two providers. As for the divergences, this is where discretion can actually come in. But, yes, I see what you’re saying. Thanks for the schematic. Kermit