The link below is to the August '01 issue of ACTIVE TRADER... p. 7 includes an article that breaks things down in various ways, with an emphasis...
"I know my strategy is to catch larger intraday swings but for some reason I only manage scalps... Scalps are in my tool bag but not my focus."...
As the chart shows, volatility in the NDX as a whole is far below boom/crash levels, but remains fairly high in historical terms. The same is...
http://home.pacbell.net/ckmcld/NDXavgranHV.htm
janko, I misunderstood your post. I'm glad you found my post useful anyway, though I suspect that, if I were trading the futs (not now, maybe...
Janko, The question of the usefulness of the futures indices to stock-traders is a matter of some controversy. Some traders wouldn't make a...
guess it depends on what style you're trading... As I stated before, if you scale in or out at all, the advantages of ticket vs. per share...
If you're trading @9.95 plus ECN fees, and even if you're going the cheap route (ISLD), a 5000 share trade would be: 9.95 + (.005 * 5000) =...
PXG: If your system disconnects while you have an open position as you've described, you'll get a dialogue box that gives you the option to close...
PXG: No way to have more than one Order Bar present. Though upcoming upgrades are supposed to bypass this limitation through various means,...
vhehn, You and I actually agree in large part, both in theory and, apparently, trading approach. As I've confessed elsewhere, I'm a junkie...
"I still believe that if you cannot code it, it's unlikely that you can trade it profitably." I think the opposite is true: It you (i.e., the...
"the differance is in your head." Could be... Who knows? Maybe you don't need charts (or for that matter a spell-checker) at all - just trust...
At present Tradestation 6 (just click the banner ad while it's still up there, or go to www. tradestation.com) comes with intraday data on the...
"There is no reason really to buy this software any longer. " Actually, there is still at least one reason that I can think of to buy the...
Quiet1, I'm not yet entirely clear on the precise parameters of P2's approach, and I'd prefer not to personalize the issue anyway, so, instead...
"I think that there is little or no chance of me washing out. " Sorry, I missed that post. It looks like you may really have meant, after...
"I know you are talking about 5 sigma events. I thought that sept 11 was one. If I don't risk more than about 20% of my account on any one...
"as in an order of magnitude smaller than a "normal" trend follower risk percentage of between 0.5% and 2.5% of equity" I could be wrong, but...
wait a second, praetorian's got to make up his mind about whether what he's doing is or isn't easy... regardless of how difficult it is as a...
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