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i have been trading with IB for a year and thought i would test drive some other platforms. i chose open e cry due to cost and the reviews here. i have been using it for a few days and have found the system filling my limit orders (exits) while the price is still 4-5 ticks away (YM). on a few...

"Its been said a thousand times over but as a trader you definitely need to be able to constantly re-evaluate and change your mind... " i should just let my wife trade for me.

can anyone point me in the direction of charting software that will allow me to graphicly select bars and combine them. For example i would like to take the last 19 bars of a 1 minute chart (the last trend) combine them into one bar to see the volume/ticks that occurred in that trend. this would...

2nd the above my $.02

m+250 t-3000 w-800 th-140 f+275 -3415 week -3415 ym got bigger than my britches due to mondays gain. switched to 4 contracts instead of one. humbled on tues & weds. back to 1 contract

first post this thread.... got killed today. got cocky and traded lots too big for me. had my a$$ handed to me -3000 today -2750 week

thanks for the feedback. my target is 20/20 on the ym unfortunately fear takes hold of me when i see a trend potentially reverse and i take the profit which is usually about $40-$50 per trade (1 contract). it was working great until friday i was ahead. i was 6/6 trades or about 50+ ticks up in...

there are a few things i have come to learn over my extended 3 month career as a trader and i thought i would share these seemingly impossible yet true items with those behind me on the learning curve. 1. take a stock that start at T0 (time zero) and look at it in relation to where it...

no offense but yes my original post came right out and said i was a newb (2 months) 6 ticks on 100 lots in the wrong direction 4 times empties my account and gets me a call from my future x-wifes lawyer. i can see where you are coming from regarding the large lots but im still trying to...

is that being sarcastic? i cant tell. its like when i was working for my girlfriends dad during high school in his auto repair shop and he said "here, hold this spark plug wire while i turn the engine over" boy we had some laughs that day.

Two ticks (in wrong direction) on 100 lots of ES is -$2500 b/f commish 6 ticks (in wrong direction) on 100 lots is -$7500 b/f commish and so forth.... perhaps in time...pls pass the vagisil

dern, howd ya know. i was trading ym. one signal long + 2 signals short is not 66% chance of success. more like 100% chance of loss. live learn spend money thanks for the feedback

newb questions: was today an example of a choppy day? i was tinkering with my indicators and i am not sure if i just screwed myself or the market was less tradeable. ps any good ways to tell if a day is going to be choppy or trending? (other than actually having to look at a chart)

mine is sometime more than 50% accurate

if you want to cry some more dont forget to add self employment tax if youre in a trading "business". social security at 13%of 100k plus medicare at 3% of all. then the state will prob want 6-8% if you live in ny city, birmingham or other city that has city/county income tax you gotta pay...

someone sent me this. i thought it was humorous until i thought about it a second time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL9cMpGSrn8

its also been said that your odds of being audited are reduced by filing an extension. apparently, some say, 95% of returns chosen for examination are chosen within a few months of april 15. ymmv

i think my problem was just over thinking the whole situation and expecting that the markets should be "reasonable". i felt that it didnt make sense for the dow to be down 2% and the nq be down 3% i read in some book that when you enter a trade you should realize that anything can happen...

est. tax payment are due equally throughout the year. if youre paying your tax bill on april 15 youll get hit with penalties and interest. there are some safe harbour rules. yes extensions are free

been trading for a few months now going into the 1:00 hour today i was up several hundred bucks shorting the ym. right around then the ym took a dump to around 12,4 (i missed it but that was ok) at that point i said to myself that it didnt seem fair that it would fall that far that...