OK, heres my set-up:
* First and foremost, my TWS is always on with both NQ and ES quotes. So when ever I glance at my screen during the day or night, I see the market.
* During regular market hours, I pull up a quotes blotter of the top 10 NAS 100 (credit to some other member <savage?> for mentioning this although I had been using it for a long time for stocks) plus the Q's- cubes- whatever.
These two split the screen on my primary monitor.
* My second monitor has a very basic NQ chart in different time frames. No indicators of any kind, just candles. No time and sales and no volume. Sometimes I will put in some S/R levels if they seem important enough. But like I said before, it's more for reference than anything else.
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What I do for entries and exits is, for lack of a better word, labor intensive. Meaning I try to recognize price at all levels with all the push and pulls, runs and congestion. That's why I say labor intensive, I literally stare at quotes for hours. Jeez, what a life. But i actually enjoy it (sick). While I'm doing this, my blotter helps to confirm or deny the trade. Rhythm and concentration IMHO go hand in hand with this method and I always lose when one or the other is lagging.
You know all this sounds more complicated than it really is. It really comes down to personality and what works for you. This seems to be working for me right now... but it can just as easily stop tomorrow.
* First and foremost, my TWS is always on with both NQ and ES quotes. So when ever I glance at my screen during the day or night, I see the market.
* During regular market hours, I pull up a quotes blotter of the top 10 NAS 100 (credit to some other member <savage?> for mentioning this although I had been using it for a long time for stocks) plus the Q's- cubes- whatever.
These two split the screen on my primary monitor.
* My second monitor has a very basic NQ chart in different time frames. No indicators of any kind, just candles. No time and sales and no volume. Sometimes I will put in some S/R levels if they seem important enough. But like I said before, it's more for reference than anything else.
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What I do for entries and exits is, for lack of a better word, labor intensive. Meaning I try to recognize price at all levels with all the push and pulls, runs and congestion. That's why I say labor intensive, I literally stare at quotes for hours. Jeez, what a life. But i actually enjoy it (sick). While I'm doing this, my blotter helps to confirm or deny the trade. Rhythm and concentration IMHO go hand in hand with this method and I always lose when one or the other is lagging.
You know all this sounds more complicated than it really is. It really comes down to personality and what works for you. This seems to be working for me right now... but it can just as easily stop tomorrow.