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are there market internals relating to energy futures that you guys use? similar to advn decn tick trin etc for index futures? sorry I'm really new with energy futures trying to learn as much as possible. :)

mav has a point. it is tougher to predict if something would go range bound or trend tomorrow because there are too many factors such as fundamental changes to the market. however i think OP has a valid point if market has already been exposed to all the news for the day. i thought about the...

no offense but if you've been to law school, the answer is quite obvious. for convenience. thats how the way regulators roll, until something catastrophic happens.

i read that u could still sell your positions but not buy. i wonder about short covering tho...

"Effective immediately the CME has suspended trading with our clearing firm MFGlobal. We are working with the management of the MFGlobal, the CME and other clearing firms to re-enable trading soon." now what?

gong xi gong xi wan shi ru yi~!

just curious... when did it start getting tough?

i 4got the research institution big banks subscript to like goldman and what not... they said something pretty close >_> who knows as long as i dont have a crystal ball ill treat everyone's opinion as... well... an opinion :D

wow i actually read all of it O_O iono why JH has such a bad reputation mayB someone can PM me about it heh but heres my 2c im not tudor or HFT algo so... yea i think to me personally a lot of what u guys said makes sense 1. u need a stop 2. where u place stop matters 3. no...

lets switch it around. ur a 17 yo with no respect for others. the way u conduct urself, im sure ur parents taught u well. nuff said im no big shot just making clear that ur no big shot for knowing ur spelling. oh wait do u?

the old saying goes everyone wants to be smart, everyone wants some ass but no one likes a smart ass i graduated from a top 5 school nation wide for my program so dont try teaching me how to spell i can call u biach for all i want its how i like to spell its a forum FFS

i think they need an age requirement for this forum. altho i agree with some of the comments it seems that not many people are doing so well to give non constructive criticisms. we all know how many of the huge names out there made it, emptying their life savings and going bankrupt. everyone...

i beg to differ in any business when your expenses exceed your revenue that leads to losses. so expenses and losses while not the same, are highly correlated. it is my belief that shorter term traders have more consistency in their profits and losses. a longer term trader may be exposed to...

on losing days i would say 50% goes to the broker ~_~ i got tight stops so losses don't kill me as badly as the broker does

are tick charts on one platform SUPPOSED to be identical (open high low and close on every single bar) to another platform considering all data is correct? im getting confused with my broker because on live trading and paper trading the charts look a little off and the indicator signals fire...

during sim i used to do that and it worked really well and i traded even better. but i kinda chicken out on that idea when it comes to live :p

on days of slow moving market or periods of chop what do u do to keep urself busy and not bored and doze off?

ah i never have that problem. i probably take a loss too quickly which can sometimes turn out to be a huge winner =/

letting your winners run or don't let a winner turn into a loser? i realize that its hard to tell if a winning trade will turn into a real "winner" and many times it just turns back and bites you while pulling stops to break even would often get me stopped out if price comes back to...

as long as you are making a profit it should not be an issue. unless you can make your trading method leaner and meaner :D