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    Is the stock market cheap?

    With a current P/E of ~18 it's far from cheap. In my book the markets will decline a lot more before it's in "value" buy territory.. http://www.decisionpoint.com/TAC/SWENLIN.html
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    trading the SSO

    Can recommend the BGU/BGZ pair. SSO/SDS is all good but nowadays there is better options.
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    What instrument to use when bullish on OIL ?

    DXO
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    Why is the market still so low?

    The market is in a cyclial bear market so there are excessing forces on the upside, the markets to rise is like trying to swim upside a river, it's really hard to make any meaningful advance. Thats why we only got this small bounce from the november low point.
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    What should be daily targets for a daytrader?

    Daily targets? You should set your performance metrics on a monthly basis.
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    Using Trailing Stops For ES

    A dynamic trailing stop that is adaptive to the underlying volatility do work fine with the ES in any time frame. Did implement one which uses the ATR indicator. If you want the code for Ninja Trader or ProBuilder drop me a line (the implementation is pretty simple so it can easily be ported...
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    Enlightenment : Swing trading the S&P 500

    New signal and trade fresh of the rack.. 1/13 16:00 - Buy long 1 ESH9 @ 866.75 Profit target: 886.75 Stoploss: 846.75
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    How to short U.S Government Bonds?

    Futures exists. Been trading the ZB (30y) and ZN (10y) T-bond futures on CBOT/ECBOT back 4-5 years ago. The size is $100k per contract but the margin requirement is low. Maybe there is even minis available today.
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    Ubuntu and IB TWS

    Shouldn't be a problem running it on Linux as the TWS is pure Java. Have in the past been using it on other platforms as Sun Solaris and HP-Unix without any problems.
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    Enlightenment : Swing trading the S&P 500

    Sorry for the delay in update. Been away on a trip. Will post the next one in real time. New signals/events since last post. - Stop - Jan 6 10:00 Buy 1 ESH9 @ 938.00 - Entry - Jan 6 13:30 Sell 1 ESH9 @ 929.00 SL: 949.00 Exit: 909.00 - Exit - Jan 7 14:00 Buy 1 ESH9 @ 909.00...
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    Enlightenment : Swing trading the S&P 500

    Trade journal for Enlightenment, systematic trading model for swing trading the S&P 500 stock index (ES future). First trade of the year: Date: 5 Jan 2009 10:00 Action: Short 1 ESH9 @ 918.00 Initial stop: 938.00 Exit target: 898.00
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