It is a fact that most traders end up losing over the long term. In order to be part of the minority of traders who win long term, you must trade...
Suddenly the classic view for viewing in the original Elite Trader colors is gone. What happened?
The markets are more competitive than they were 20 years ago. Back then, there were no HFT firms front running everything. There was more paper...
I have been looking to open an account at one of the better capitalized, large FCMs (Goldman, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, etc.), and it seems like...
The bond market doesn't act like it did earlier in the year. It is not giving sellers a long time to sell at good prices. The rallies have less...
What a crap market to trade. Fundamentals are terrible, and everything: stocks/bonds are overvalued, yet trying to short S&P or bonds is usually...
With the HFTs ruling the short term trading patterns, you see many more intraday overbought and oversold conditions that are both irrational and...
Wow, it happened again. Not that it should surprise anyone, but we got another face ripping V bottom after going down for a few days. How many...
There are many times when I would like to execute multiple different futures contracts simultaneously but I don't have the software that allows...
It is clear that HFTs are doing their best to make their order front running algos more profitable by trying to eliminate spoofing. They are...
For those that trade index options, You probably know that SPX options can have a lot of slippage, but can be executed for large size. Let's say...
There goes my 2015 playbook. The bond bus has left the station. I had it all mapped out in my head. We were going to get one last final blowoff...
As I look at my trading P&L for the month, I am down. Actually, my trading equity hit its peak in June, so from that perspective I have been...
Is there an option to view Elite Trader through the Classic view, the old style? This new ET look is horrible, The interface is user unfriendly,...
Wrote the following in my blog before Monday's crude oil "flash crash": In the commodities futures market, you have two main groups:...
There are quite a few bad trading authors/educators out there, I just wanted to point out a few who make more money off selling books, educational...
The baton is being passed from Europe to China. On Europe: if everyone is bearish and knows how bad things are, then its too late. The...
This market feels like one huge short squeeze that started last Monday and has gone on for 10 days. Still a lot of nonbelievers in this rally and...
Did anyone else look at the Nikkei last night and smell manipulation? Central banks have just one playbook these days: market manipulation. I...
Gold. It is the most logical choice among speculators to target as the best risk asset. It is the next bubble. The greatest benefit of gold is...
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