"ES, NQ and YM move with the market. I don't really it makes a difference which you trade. I choose ES due to liquidity." except you don't...
"I am sure it will head down" then you clearly aren't a "hedge fund trader" or if you are, you won't be one for long. NO trader should be...
"Long term professional traders also trade only in the direction of the trend." idiotic. i know several "longterm professional traders"...
"Thus, there is a 2.7% chance of us ending the month down? " no. this is one of the most popular fallacies amongst retail traders. just...
technically, futures are not traded with "margin" that;'s why you CAN trade futures in an IRA but can't short stocks or use leverage with stocks
it's also not meaningful to talk about point goals without talking about how much you are willing to RISK to get those goals. professional...
and again, so much of the commentary is on teaching method, when in fact a big part of teaching trading is teaching HOW to trade. it is not the...
i prefer to do it over the internet vs face-to-face. with skype, file sharing, etc. it works fine that way. 1k per week is what i've...
sim trading in IB's demo account is pretty darn close to real trading. i tested it extensively side by side with real trading, and its VERY...
yes
the YM and the ES to SOME extent trade together. last i checked, the correlation was over .9 the YM is price weighted. the ES is cap...
fwiw, at THESE (post earning ) prices, it is actually kind of compelling in regards to its fundies. i feel the same way here as i did about MCD's...
"Hi couple more questions about YM, being playing with it for a good 6 days now. 1) Do most of you use market or limit order? I am having...
with all due respect? get real. retail traders never cease to amaze me. people here are trading OEX day, and 1) don't even REALIZE it's OEX...
imo, the minimum amount of cash one should have (note" MY OPINION only) to trade fulltime is 500k. that's liquid trading capital, not...
i don't use any (conventional/lagging) indicators, and imo the market since the 'christmas rally' has been the best trading market i have ever...
fair enough. i'm a big student of game theory. so, that's how i developed my trading style. it's discretionary, but it's also grounded in...
"You sound as though you are trading scared. You have thought of every conceivably bad thing that can happen to you" it's actually the exact...
"The object is to beat the CROWD in and beat them out. How is that done more efficiently when you are waiting in line with the CROWD to do both ?"...
"And blows right through your physical stop. There's no difference" there most definitely is. yes, you get some slippage. i'd rather take X...
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