I recently started a series on my blog about the evolution of my trading, beginning with my trading using the eminiwatch method which consists of...
I made a video today about how I track my trading using a trade log & a journal. I've also made the excel templates available for download. I've...
I'd like to share something I've been working on. I'm using trade intensity to detect buying/selling exhaustion which often leads to reversals....
I enter my limit orders before the open and I'm not always around to monitor them so I'd like to have a stop loss & target (limit) placed...
I'm curious who trades SPY? Do professionals trade it? Smart money? I figure any really good trader would trade ES, so I'm wondering who that...
I'd like to know if the German stock exchange has a TICK index like the NYSE?
I was going to rollover a short ES position but I didn't understand why September is 4 pts under June. In the past I've seen the later contract...
I'm mainly interested in gold but the question if valid for other metals as well. I'm curious what data people are using for their charts....
I'm not sure if I want to use 24hr data or regular trading hours (9:00 - 2:30 EST) data for my swing trading. I've tried both and I see...
I've read that MACD divergence is a good indicator of a change in trend. But I have a question. I often see a divergence on a small timeframe,...
I'm doing a study of the most liquid contracts and I'd like to find out what are the most liquid in agriculture futures. I'm already studying ES,...
IQFeed's data goes back to may 2007 for futures and oct 2005 for eminis. I'm looking for 1 minute data back to 2000. 5 minute data would be ok...
I just found a good example of what happens with curve fitting. Before my vacation last month I ran optimized my strategy up until 12/4/2008...
I'd like to trade something more liquid than YG & ZG so I'm thinking of Comex gold. Can it be traded electronically? So far I've just found GC...
I'm looking for a list of the futures contracts with the most volume. Doesn't have to be indexes, can be energy, financial, anything. Worldwide....
I'm currently using IQFeed for historical data. They're ok except for the fact that their historical data doesn't go back very far. 2005 or 2006...
Let's say you have a strategy which is positive and just for the sake of argument this strategy has (and I'm making these up so they may not be...
I have ran across this several times so I'm wondering what's going on: I've written up a strategy and backtested it over the past 3 years for...
I've been backtesting various entries but I have a real problem with the exits. I'm not sure when to get out. I've tried Bollinger bands, MA...
I've finally made progress with my entries to where I can get positive in my trades the majority of the time. However, I usually end up breaking...
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