My biggest temptation is to place stop market entry orders on the ES for 20 cars just before the employment report tomorrow morning and hope to...
Started dabbling in 95, trading in 99, completely amateur until i would say some time last year. Two complete wipeouts during that time. Now i...
Thanks Redneck - that is definitely something psychologically I am not capable of yet. Without a doubt I am still considering everything within...
Yes, my discretionary losses today equaled about 8 discretionary wins. To net 8 discretionary wins in my system will take weeks (only one or two...
BPTrader i have been crushed before...Ive been trading about 10 years with two complete wipeouts, one after being up 1000% in a year (1999) and...
My time frame for discretionary trading is only intraday. Most of my trading is done via a system and its all swing trades, but i have been doing...
Rough day today...i developed a working mean reversion strategy a few months ago, and recognized from the outset that, while it was a solid...
Recently started trading CL short term myself...finding it pretty easy so far. Avoiding all major events and just picking up .50 cent to $1 here...
Thanks for the feedback... I am typically buying 1500 - 5000 shares at a pop. I'm not willing to use Ameritrade or Scotttrade or the like --...
Any swing traders out there trading 1k-5k shares per position? what kind of commissions are you paying?
Wondering if anyone can advise me on what good commission rates would be for equity swing trading. Most of the position sizes I'm trading are now...
Not really slippage, per se...more like there seems to always be a 1/4 point variance on my system in live trading vs. backtest results. Not...
Thanks for the feedback all...pretty much aligns with my expectations. I knew it to be a very liquid market but I was a bit worried about...
Anyone have any idea what size orders i can place at the market on the ES without slippage? Can i get away with 50 contract orders? if so,...
Fully automated with a 1:1 r/r I can achieve about 65% win rate. I'm guessing this can be significantly improved upon but this has been my...
Mandlebrotset - Everything i do considers volatility. My entries even exclude certain signals if they are too volatile (based on ATR as a % of...
Hallo folks So I have been developing automated systems for a while...most were either not really successful or there were a few that were...
this worked out terribly for me...thanks
off to a bad start
up 10 bucks so far
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