How are the famous trend following money managers performing this year? There have been some big moves which I think would play into their hands....
On Oct 16th, 2008 I had an order in to Sell 1 Dec ES at 914.75 Stop. At about 08:23:12 EDT a big seller came in and hit the ES with pretty good...
I show 3 days since 1966 that the S&P 500 index fell 8% or more from the previous trading day's close. Sep 29, 2008 down 8.79% Oct 26, 1987...
With the SPX down about 20% from its Oct 2007 highs, at this rate the SPX will be around 1071 at the end of December. I think I'll sell my stocks,...
The regional banks have been slaughtered with banks like FITB slashing its dividend and planning to raise capital. Today the following news on BBT...
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20602.htm http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2008/comp20602.pdf
I like to start a position with 1 contract. That way if the market moves against me to my stop level, I'll flatten my position and only have a...
Traditional pyramiding on your initial position tells you to adds to your position in smaller and smaller increments. But look what happens when I...
I'd like to hear from the Prop Traders out there. Why do you choose to trade at a Prop Firm instead of just opening an account at a Retail Broker?...
I've read many good things about Velocity Futures and would like to hear from traders that either have or had an account with them. How would you...
Traditionally, I've preferred to use Stop Alerts when stop levels are reached. Upon receiving an alert, I would manually enter a limit order to...
I developed a crude rules based trading system for S&P 500 Futures. It is a trend following system similar to the turtle trading system but with a...
From 1994-1997 I traded stock index futures. My broker was First American Discount Corporation (purchased by Man Financial, now called MF Global...
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