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What is a CL?

If a trader is well capitalized, what would be the best instruments and strategy to trade to make big returns of $25K a week?

163% return in 2013. See your edge. Trade it. Let the trade go where it wants. Some will win. Some will lose. You know what to do next.

yes it does! but one also has to work diligently in the beginning to remember to let go, not to hold to become comfortable with uncertainty and having fear, but with enough practice you become comfortable with the negative physical sensations that hold you back. one must meditate.

have never taken any meditation courses but have dabbled in meditation over 20 years. my road to profitable trading just came from years of trading practice, knowing emotional attachment to anything is what holds you back, once you are able to let it go, there is no fear, no expectation hence...

Successful trading is letting go of all the fears and expectations you have of what the trade will do. All you have to do when you see your edge is put on a trade and let it take its path. Have no emotional attachment to the trade no matter what it does. For when you get to this...

So, how would you compare how price action has been lately in the ES compared to 2005-2006, there is absolutely no volume in the ES after 10.30 AM everyday in 2013.

you can trade 20 contracts for 2 ticks pretty easily between 9.30 & 11.30 AM and between 3 & 4 PM from what I've experienced.

Leverage! that's it. What about Technical Analysis of the Futures markets? Is there something about Futures TA that gives the trader the edge?

Why do most professional intraday traders trade Futures? Why not Stocks, Options or Bonds? What is it about the ES, CL, GC, ZB that draws the crowds?

Hedge Funds trade on Insider Information. Period!

This is gold! This guy trades at the NYSE? Whatever he does you take the other side.

what about TD Ameritrade? does anyone know what kind of margin they offer on trading futures? thanks.

Thanks for the post. I trade Forex now but I did start with stocks then moved to futures (which really did me in) but now have moved to forex in the last 4 months and the losses have been smaller and i've won here and there.

Sorry, the sentence is convoluted. I meant, I can trade now, the fear is gone because I trade mini lots in Forex but maximum win or loss is at $100 per trade for me, at this rate I'll take me decades to recoup my losses, although I'm not completely focused on that, I want to become a better...

Thank you for your post! Yes, I did read a few books sim traded for a week or two and then jumped into the market and then I was swimming eye deep in oil. I could not see an inch in front of me. Lesson learned hopefully. I have no discipline while trading, I see a signal based on an...

i guess asking a trader for some sympathy is the wrong way to go since its such a cut-throat business.

I have whittled down my $60,000 account to $7000 in 18 months trading full time. I've never had a winning week just a few winning days. For the first 15 months I am convinced I had no idea what I was doing although I thought I did. Its just that in the last 3 months I have developed an edge...