I trade CL on a 70 tic chart and yes you will get slippage. Either in low volume or high volume on strong moves. The average range on crude is so much better then ES that your targets will be larger and offset the slippage. I use a combo of buy/sell stop market/limit orders
One of my customers works at Alcoa plant and when the resession hit they laid off close to 50% of the plant. Business has been building and he is working alot of overtime along with most of the other workers. Alcoa has brought back only a few laid off workers. He said they would rather pay one...
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I setup using 2 trading doms side by side one live and the other in sim mode. The sim dom I will take impulse trades,setups that have slipped in performance or new setups. If I reach my goal or loss limit I will move over to sim mode.
Answer to the person who said it is impossible to make the big money on your own. This guy from Japan turned 13k into 270m in nine years trading online from his home. Didnt build an home on the side of a hill but did buy a 90m building.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LEmIOR521o
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Paul Rotter uses CCI and seems to do ok
From interview with Paul Rotter
Q: what timeframes are you using on your charts?
A: usually 5 - 30 min charts for trendlines and indicators. i prefer p&f charts because they give me a clearer view on patterns (triple tops). for indicators i like the...
This quote was from a full time autotrader back in 2005.
WARNING WARNING
If you choose to autotrade with Tradestation or AutoMaven or AutoAnything be WARNED. There is great peril in unwatched trades. Not in bad decisions, but in dangling decisions. Your AutoWhatever does not know that a...
White House noted that a 5.1% unemployment rate is below the averages for the past three decades. The problem with that is the shrinking work force down from 64% to 62% since the late 1990s makes that 5.1% bogus
I just closed out my Trademaven account after a couple of years and had no major problems.If I had a question or problem I called and they were very helpful.The Pats data feed is not good for tic or volume charts. I really like the platform trading off the charts.The reason I left was my low...