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brownsfan019
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You might get more out of posting the charts of the days you made mistakes on vs. the perfect days.
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2-17-10: +$380 Felt like a slower day to me on oil today. Shut it down at noon and said see you tomorrow friend.
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It really depends on how demanding your charting and other software is. I've always been one that goes for top of the line when I upgrade, but to be honest, I can run OEC charts on a plain laptop just fine. As long as I have reliable internet, I can trade from just about any laptop, incl a netbook if needed. So if your charting and whatever else you run is demanding, then you need to make sure you have the right internal components. If it's simple in nature, then any decent laptop will do the trick. For example, I am typing this on a laptop that is a core duo 1.6ghz with 2 gig of ram and my OEC charts are running just fine on it. This is my catch all laptop and I also have 2 IE windows open and 7 firefox windows open, plus a Word doc. And the charts are cruising along just fine.
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How Many Contracts Have You Traded on Currency Futures?
brownsfan019 replied to sicktrader's topic in Futures
It's a big function of the time of day the trades are being placed. Pull a basic chart and add volume to it. If you are trading where you see the peaks, you should be fine; otherwise you might get more slippage than you expect. Also be weary of those offering advice here that have never shown any ability to trade in any fashion whatsoever. Where you talk of trading 40, they dream of trading 1. Plus you'll find out quickly if there will be a problem based on how you trade. -
Good luck on your thread and journey! That's great you are starting at such an early age getting into this!
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I think that's VERY smart of you.
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Sorry I've been MIA a bit here lately guys, glad to see some are still posting! 2-17-10: +$340.00 Ok day on oil today. Missed 2 really nice trades due to lack of focus on first day back this week.
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If you do your rollover directly on your existing chart, all lines should stay. Example: GCLH0 CONTRACT WITH LINE AT 76.89 I CLICK THE ROLL FORWARD ARROW AND NOW I AM ON THE GCLJ0 CONTRACT AND MY LINE IS STILL THERE Right now your window probably looks like this: And to make it look like an independent window, do this: Right-click at top on the blue bar and click independent
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Dinero - you don't need another broker if you want to keep this simple. Open a 'long-term' account at OEC then ask them to open a Trade Manager user for you where you can access both accounts w/in 1 login. Then you can trade in both accounts quickly and easily. I'm pretty sure this would do what you need.
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Do you want to share w/ everyone what you found and where? Maybe someone else is also looking for the same info.
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THREAD OFFICIALLY CLOSED. NICE JOB IN 2009 EVERYONE! LET'S KEEP IT GOING IN 2010!
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I'm sure w/ a little work on your end, you can find out if that's true or not. Feel free to post your progress and updates here if you'd like.
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Introduce Yourself Here - Don't Be Shy!!
brownsfan019 replied to trading4life's topic in Beginners Forum
Attached is a list of recommended books I put together some time ago. Before you can decide what courses to take or what others could recommend here, you have to tell us about YOU... What instruments do you want to trade? What timeframe(s) do you want to trade? How much risk are you willing to take? How much do you want to spend on your educational materials? Before you run off buying expensive courses, you should poke around this very site and see what you like. You might just find stuff that is here for FREE and much better than what you can find on the web. Start w/ this thread. Amazon.com trading book reco's (tiny url's).pdf -
Using Daily Charts to Trade W/ Thales H,L,HL Method
brownsfan019 replied to brownsfan019's topic in The Candlestick Corner
If you want to post charts, please do. I'll be honest, my daytrading has been rather busy lately so I haven't touched this. -
Anytime. Contrary to what a few around here might think, I'm just trying to be a helpful guy since I know this software inside and out.
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Note that is PER CONTRACT being traded. If I can get +$500/ct x 10 cts = $5000 on the day. Not bad.
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Ok, well if in your book you have been posting weekly, then you have been posting weekly. We may be using different calendars. Back to your weekly posting then. See you next Monday or whatever date would be appropriate for a week for you. If you'd like to inform us dumb traders when your next weekly report will be, I will be on edge waiting for it. But apparently I am not clever enough to know when your weekly report will be. So help me out, when will the next weekly report appear?
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Excellent points. It will depend on your wins/losses and the size of them as to whether or not stopping at +$600 is a good idea or not. Personally, I'm ok w/ shutting it down at +$500 or higher. That's the ONLY way I enter my trades. I want to buy into strength and sell into weakness. I believe I've mentioned that previously on TL, but that may have been before your time. Another great pickup on your part! Something like that is only observed with real market trading/movements. There's no way to have seen that buy/sell stops for entries look good on a static chart.
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Selling and Buying a Stock on the Same Day
brownsfan019 replied to billbose's topic in Beginners Forum
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I am! Come join us in the p/l thread and you will see for your very eyes. Like I said, your weekly posts are anything but weekly. Do you disagree?
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There are a number of online data vendors. And there are some threads floating around here with suggestions. A quick way to get what you need is signup for eSignal data for 1 month, grab everything you want and then cancel. You could do that right now and have what you need by the end of business today if you wanted. Or did you just want the data for free?
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I'm sure you will. But for anyone else following along here, it should be clear that you said this would be weekly, re-confirmed that it would be weekly and then it hasn't been weekly. So if you are posting for random fun, have at it. But if you are posting w/ the intent of shilling a service later, it's already clear what we are dealing with here.
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Here's what I've found in response time at OEC: 1) Calls - usually answer fairly quickly 2) Support tickets (in your online back office) - usually replied to the same day, sometimes fairly quickly 3) Regular emails - usually get a reply, but not always same day. There is also a chat function built into the software that you can chat with a broker. That is a very nice function IMO. That is usually very quick response time as well.
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I'm just pointing out that your thread entitled 'weekly analysis' has been anything but weekly, even after you re-confirmed a 2nd time that it would be weekly. So whatever your goal is here, it's really not providing much use to anyone as your updates are in fact completely random and if anyone was silly enough to rely on this, they would have to wait hoping to see you appear again at some random point in the future. Maybe you should start a new thread entitled 'Completely Random Analysis'.
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Cory - what you are seeing is the problem IMO of anticipating breakouts. There will be plenty of fakeouts b/c there's guys like me that are buying down there assuming the level will hold. This is purely an observation. If you find over time that the breakouts will work and as you said 1 winner will put this back in gear, then you are fine. You just have to understand the fundamental design of the system and playing breakouts and what to expect. You must expect that selling into support will cause losers b/c that support will in fact hold many times. You are selling saying I want this level to break, meanwhile reversal guys like myself are buying saying this level should hold. Someone will win. My