Recent Content by DeepThought

  1. My Goal for 2008: Trading to Trade Well

    datamerc, you are an inspiration! :) Thank you for the journal. I'm most impressed by your honest accounting of your feelings and mistakes and...
    Post by: DeepThought, Jan 6, 2009 in forum: Journals

  2. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    Success! Or at least first step :) I have implemented a simple version of my strategy in NinjaTrader. Strategy works on 1-tick resolution and...
    Post by: DeepThought, Jan 4, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  3. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    Makes sense. What I was thinking is that in an uptrend I can go short at a resistance level for a brief pullback, but that would be a short-term...
    Post by: DeepThought, Jan 2, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  4. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    I identify the S/R levels with the old Mk I Eyeball instrument :) I look at candlestick charts of the previous 1-2 weeks, using 1 day, 60 minute...
    Post by: DeepThought, Jan 1, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  5. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    It's really a choice of preference ... do I want to try to make small profits from the short-term movements, or catch the longer-term moves? For...
    Post by: DeepThought, Jan 1, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  6. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    I've spent few days backtesting the strategy, and I came pretty much to the same conclusion. The daily volumes drop off dramatically in...
    Post by: DeepThought, Jan 1, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    Ewww... I have a STRONG dislike for wide stops. I've been swing/position trading equities for few years and I like my stops tight and nice. On...
    Post by: DeepThought, Dec 30, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    Thank you for the insights, good stuff! Hmm, good point. I've been doing this real-time for the past two weeks, but I've been tweaking with the...
    Post by: DeepThought, Dec 30, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  9. Simple S/R based intraday ES strategy -- comments?

    Based on few weeks of reading and playing with ButtonTrader/IB simulation mode, I've come up with following simple strategy. It is by no means...
    Thread by: DeepThought, Dec 30, 2008, 20 replies, in forum: Strategy Building