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[Lucrum]

Quote from marketsurfer:

I have been involved with the markets since 1990-- I have never heard of Sierra Charts...

I got started in 1988, and I've been aware of them for over a decade.

Regardless, why wouldn't the guy use his own platform for charting? Why switch to something he doesnt' know anything about?

You'd have to ask him.

Quote from oraclewizard77:

Down just 17 ticks for the day, but was just using 1 contract trades. Going to work on automation.

I almost didn't post/ask this for fear of it coming across the wrong way.

But you do know you just burned up one of the only 10 trading days you get, right? And on less than a full day at that.

 

[MichaelPatak]

I inquired about Austinp: I believe he is journaling as well. I am fairly sure he is creating a separate journal for this as to not confuse or muddy the waters with two traders on the same journal.

mp

 

[atticus]

Quote from oraclewizard77:

Down just 17 ticks for the day, but was just using 1 contract trades. Going to work on automation.

Why aren't you posting screenshots of the metrics? They should be up by now.

 

[cornix]

Quote from oraclewizard77:

Sent Cornix a PM asking how in the DOM to set multiple targets and have stop move up to BE for some orders.

Hopefully, on Tue I will have everything setup correctly to trade more and earlier.

Sorry for not answering soon, I was sleeping already (time zone issues ).

I have never used multiple targets (actually almost always just manually exit profitable trades @ MKT), but I believe to enable multiple targets in SC you should open Trade Window for chart or DOM and use the "Targets" tab to set attached orders.

Make sure though, that CTS supports them and not just SC.

I personally use CTS DOM for order entry, because all orders are full server-side then and not just held in the platform. So in case of Internet connection drop I'm still safe with a stop-loss sitting on their servers.

 

[brownsfan019]

Quote from Lucrum:
But you do know you just burned up one of the only 10 trading days you get, right? And on less than a full day at that.

Is that the case? Can only trade 10 days?

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from brownsfan019:
----Is that the case?
----Can only trade 10 days?

1) You have to trade a minimum of 10 days with a potential maximum of ~21 to ~23.
2) In order to trade beyond 10 days, you have to be in "good standing" and not have violated any guidelines. Think of it as a type of "call option" where you have to remain "in the money" to extend your "expiration day" in order to "exercise" the option.

 

[oraclewizard77]

I actually got this to work with a built in trade on DOM. However, my new issue is that I can't find a Price Action indicator for Sierra Charts like I use in NT. I want to just use Sierra Charts, so I was able to recreate all of my indicators for the most part except this one. Price Action will create the HH, LH, LL, and HL for you on NT. So I will send Sierra Chart another e-mail.

I may have to just manually label the chart and also draw my lines before taking any trades.

Quote from cornix:

Sorry for not answering soon, I was sleeping already (time zone issues ).

I have never used multiple targets (actually almost always just manually exit profitable trades @ MKT), but I believe to enable multiple targets in SC you should open Trade Window for chart or DOM and use the "Targets" tab to set attached orders.

Make sure though, that CTS supports them and not just SC.

I personally use CTS DOM for order entry, because all orders are full server-side then and not just held in the platform. So in case of Internet connection drop I'm still safe with a stop-loss sitting on their servers.

 

[electron]

Quote from marketsurfer:

I have been involved with the markets since 1990-- I have never heard of Sierra Charts ====other than on this site--- looks like some kind of low end competitor to free qoute tracker? open source stuff maybe??

It's a very decent piece of software.

 

[cornix]

Quote from oraclewizard77:

I actually got this to work with a built in trade on DOM. However, my new issue is that I can't find a Price Action indicator for Sierra Charts like I use in NT. I want to just use Sierra Charts, so I was able to recreate all of my indicators for the most part except this one. Price Action will create the HH, LH, LL, and HL for you on NT. So I will send Sierra Chart another e-mail.

I may have to just manually label the chart and also draw my lines before taking any trades.

As for indicators I'm not much of help, cause basically don't use them.

 

[cornix]

Quote from electron:

It's a very decent piece of software.

Neither Surf has heard of CTS as he admitted before in my journal, despite it's a great futures/future options platform known to many professionals.