hi in and long,
thanks for the nice writing. I use a variety of technicals and oscillators but they are all off the shelf stuff. I use NO fundamental analysis except i look at sector action (ie fi metals or steels are strong etc).
I'm short NQ from 1466, so my stop is past breakeven. As price action develops it gives me a better idea of where we are going.
I'm expecting to perhaps cover some friday and looking to go long us dollars/short eurodollars looking for about a 3 cent rally there.
lets see what happens! I always move my stop to breakeven once I get move in my direction and I usually trade with around 6:1 odds.
To be honest, if your patient and wait for setups, use good odds and money management (ie only bet big when the odds are in your favor and you've got soem profits you can afford to lose) I dont do anything special. most Et's would laugh at me cause my system is so simple, its largely based on jesse livermore (trendfollowing) type stuff.
so here i am short nq futures from 1466, I'm sitting on a nice profit right now, but you never know! Ideally worst case I should be able to get out with a small profit if everything goes wrong at this point, but you never know maybe they catch osama or something and the market blows thru my stops...
good trading!