RE: Paying a big chunk to the house ------ I certainly agree wiuth dozu, the futures are the way to go from many standpoints, most definitely...
For what it's worth Hitman, I do have a rigorous post-trading routine that I follow every day: 1) I note key Support/Resistance levels on ES...
There is one thing about your post I don't understand Hitman. You say you don't just want to learn about the market during trading hours, but...
jmcgraw - It was Mark Weinstein who claimed that he had just 17 losing trades out of several thousand. (And he said 9 of those were because his...
I used to be a nationally broadcast classical music radio announcer, and I'm not only very familiar with classical music, but I listen to it as...
Having watched both the Qs and NQ over a long period of time, I don't think there's any question that NQ is the more reliable indicator both in...
Crazy ---- COMP does update every 60 seconds, but the futures are virtually instantaneous, so there can be a lag of up to 60 seconds between NQ...
I agree completely with Dustin ----- in most cases, NQ leads the COMPQ by up to a full minute, as it takes that long to calculate the new value of...
Babek ---- I believe for intraday trading purposes on 5M charts Alan recommends 13-period BBs (at 2 Std dev) ---- see page 47 of The Master Swing...
Jaan ---- You may well be correct. The math makes sense. The last four rollovers have all been on Thursdays, on the 7th and 8th day of the...
There are a couple of ways to construct continuous futures contract charts, each has advantages and disadvantages, gaining something while giving...
Kicking ----- I think it's nearly always best to trade the contract with the greatest volume, giving better liquidity, smaller spreads, and the...
The semi-official rollover for index futures is the 9th day of the delivery month. When that falls on a weekend, as it will this September, the...
I think Turok is basically correct. Compare ES or NQ ---- which trade 23 1/2 hours every weekday with the pit SP and ND contracts, which trade...
Sometimes the trades that turn out best are psychologically the hardest to make. It can be hard to short new lows and buy new highs because you...
Ideally, of course, you want to be already short as price approaches support and already long as it approaches resistance. That way, whatever...
I fully agree with Tymjr's excellent post. It would probably take me a several-hundred page book to discuss all the subtleties of the indicators...
I've used eSignal for the indices for over a year now, and find their feed to be outstanding in terms of accuracy, reliability and speed of...
Hitman ----- I think I know (and use) what tymjr is referring to, but he's right: it won't be that much help to you for stock trading. You'd be...
Dan ---- This subject was addressed by many members near the end of the recent thread "Top Books for Day Trading."
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