Up 10% by Monday???? What grass are you smoking? :p
I think your idea of just giving her some play money and letting her at it is a good one. Once the trading bug bites, it bites hard. She will...
Exactly. I found that 3 months is too short of a period to go on to set my parameters. Tuning them to one 3-month period results in disastrous...
Ah, there's the rub. You still have discretionary inputs to an otherwise automatic system. I've found it's best to find one set of parameters and...
Don't know, but the Chicago one was fun. There were people there who hadn't left the trading pits in years. Looked like sunlight had never touched...
I went to the Trade Pride parade at the weekend, outside the CME. All sorts of odd looking characters there.
First, pick a fixed stop and limit offset, that you will use for both long and short trades. Then go long, and do not touch your stop and limit...
If you like to trade randomness and chop, this <i>is</i> trading heaven. For me, however, it is just making up for getting killed during the night...
Of course. This <i>is</i> supposed to be a bull market, after all.
I'm not worried ... tomorrow's close will be lower. I believe 1230 will be tested before all is said and done.
1,251.91 according to Google Finance ...
1252.64 .... oh man, this is killing me!
Yeah, I was bracing for that as I was reading the thread. Maybe the idiotic element on ET don't read this forum :) Good luck with the ATS, BTW,...
Watch out .. today seems like one of those that may have a sting in the tail. I wouldn't be long right now.
I found my optimal stop/limit combination by backtesting using historical data. Only then did I use them going forward with real money.
The day trader's psychology is without doubt his number one enemy. Doesn't matter what instrument he trades, or whether he trades discretionary or...
Gold!
Will he come back after 1252 is surpassed again?
Another way to overcome the mental wall is to use a purely mechanical, automated system. Cold, emotionless, and ever alert, just like the markets...
The market does the opposite of whatever "they" say, more often than not. It's almost a counter indicator. I get a good laugh most mornings...
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