Actually my trading today, especially my first long win compared to my last trade - the short loss, have been very instructive to me. I will put together a chart with notes in the next few hours or days. I have some work to do before putting ...

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stopped - 15. You just cannot win them all

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Ok this is my last one for the day ... honest short @899, stop loss is 914, target is 869

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long @841 and +30 already: That YM she like to move it move it! image EDIT: I am done for the day. It is 11 AM. I'd keep trading if I were down for the day or if I hadn't reached my $200-$300 per contract goal. But it is now time for me to rest, ...

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Here is what it looks like. To be fair, I did get a bit lucky on the short @48. As noted on this chart, the proper entry would have been a sell stop at 38, which would have been filled,. But price stopped at 37 and popped in the blink of an eye to ...

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Dare I say yet another +30 on the YM! I was just going to post this pic of my DOM to show I moved the stop loss to +2 and here I am out of the trade. This is why it is so difficult to post these trades in real time. When the market is open, as D ...

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+30 long @985 +30 long @020 +30 short at 984 +30 short at 948 = 120 ticks on 2 lots and I think I am convinced that D's money management hit and run style and the YM is a match possibly made in Heaven! I made an error earlier. I am using 377 tick ...

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I wish I would have taken a screen pic of this trade but it happened too quick: Long 2 lots @85 and +30 on the YM in under a minute I think! image EDIT: I am using 377 tick on YM

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Great quote! Write that on a post it note or index card and tape it to your computer monitor! And what the what is up with that 20 point rip higher on the ES? I guess there must have been some news?

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Here's my first and current trade of the day: This is a sim trade. It is a reversion to mean type strategy and I doing some forward testing of it while getting a new project account set up with this broker. I've mentioned this to D in PM's and as I ...

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15 second chart! Wow! That would be too fast for me. I've been simming a new set up on the ES and that is as fast as I can handle (sometimes even that is to fast). I was also looking at the TF today using 144 tick chart. That market has ...

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On the pull back trades, are you entering with a limit order, D? Or do you wait for the pullback and then place a buy stop above the market in the direction of the trade?

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I've known that non-time series charts will vary from feed to feed. But the first 5 minute bar of a 5 minute candle or ohlc chart ought to be the same wherever you are and through whichever broker you are trading. Anyhow, today is crude inventory ...

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Thank you!

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Thanks, D. I think it should be 85.75. Every source I've checked with has that figure except for my now ex-broker.

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If anyone out there reading this has access to a 5 minute ES chart, I would like to ask what your chart is showing as the high for the first 5 minute bar nterval of the day. I have two brokers showing me 85.75 as the high of that bar, and another ...

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Grew up in what used to be Pennsylvania farmland north and west of Philadelphia. Then lived in NYC for a number of years. Now I am back in PA, but in the northern mountains.

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Our local average was 31 inches, and my back door was blocked by an 8 foot drift. I have yet to uncover my mailbox.

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Once I get a new little account funded and ready to trade, I will post my chart here daily. It will probably take a week or so for the funds to clear if I use an ACH. If the roads clear of sno by tomorrow (my neighborhood is still snowed in) I may ...

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Indeed! I have a buddy lurking here, D. I told him about you and the YM a few weeks or so ago. He's really struggled to become profitable, and he was basically down to his last thousand bucks for trading. He quit IB and went to a low margin broker: ...

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