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So you only need to know 1) when trends will show up and 2) the strength of the trend? Simple enough. In those DVDs you bought, did your educators not share these secrets with you? What exactly did you pay them for? Maybe it's time to contact the people you are paying to educate you first.

The weekly analysis guy is back!

Like we've talked about dinero, that's the beauty of trading - if you want to make more money, just trade more contracts. As a side note - I know you are getting comfortable trading multiple markets, just make sure you are also watching your margins so that in real-time trading you can take all these trades. For example: GCL is $2700 GNG is $3375 So just those 2 markets will require an account of $6075 if you put on simultaneous trades. I have no idea what you will be trading with, but just keep this in mind. If you opened an account for $5k and expected to get into it, you'd get rejected orders and that could be very frustrating. The only way to mimic this in sim is to have OEC set your sim account size to the same as your real one. I think the default is $50k. If you want to make it realistic, send a support ticket asking to reset it based on what you think you will start with.

Will do my best to answer here, but keep in mind contact OEC directly to make sure what I've presented here is correct for your situation. I am a US resident, so I can only speak to my experiences. Dropping below the $5k account opening min: I have no idea if you can continue to trade if you are below the $5k minimum. I believe you can, but could be wrong. Fees for changing orders: for the markets that I trade, there are no fees for changing orders. I am trading the US markets. Servers down and can't close order: If I can not get out of a trade on my end, I call OEC immediately. This does not happen often and they are good about executing the trades. Please keep in mind that I am providing this information to you based on my personal experiences. Yours may vary greatly from what I've described here and it's in your best interest to confirm all information presented here and any forum for that matter.

Great game Saints, job well done. Very cool that a franchise that has never been to the SB didn't just sit on their laurels being happy w/ that. They came out to win. And a good thing I know that I should not bet on NFL games. Any given Sunday...

Just vote in the thread if you didn't. I think it will be a good game. Could be a shootout which is always fun to watch.

I agree - it's not as easy as it could be but this is an option to get around it.

Glad to see these posts still get viewed! You are welcome. I hope it can help your trading.

I voted Colts. I don't think you can stop Manning. The guy is unbelievable at picking apart defenses. For the 'feel good' pick, it would be neat to see the Saints win. I just don't think they can handle Manning.

Superbowl later today, who you got? For all our non-football (USA version) followers, the Superbowl is the championship game. ESPN info.

Right. I do not use range bars, so it's a non-issue for myself. But if it's a deal breaker and OEC is not constructing them as you expect, then you have a choice to make - use them as is or find a new place to trade.

There's 3 right now that think I should not be allowed to moderate or probably even post for that matter here. Ironically, it's 3 people that do not / cannot post anything of substance that actually helps people trade.

Once again, I am simply the messenger. There was a question/problem, I took time out of my day to get the answer and then came back here to present it to the forum. I even offered a suggestion of what to do if the current construction is not suitable. And I do all of this out of the generosity of my heart (ie for FREE) b/c there are some good people here that I try to get information to. I realize that some guys are on sim or have small accounts that perhaps getting to the bottom of a technical issue like this may take awhile or may not get resolved. I sent a few emails and then came back w/ the answer for you guys. If the answer is not suitable, you as a trader have a decision to make.

2-4-10: +$370.00 2-5-10: +$712.50 That wraps up the week. Trading was fine. This place was crawling with haters today. Maybe if some would apply the effort in posting here into their trading, they could join us in this thread. Food for thought.

JB - nice call on the trade though. Great analysis and the proper work done. I know that executing is sometimes easier said than done, so no worries. Keep at it and welcome to the oil cartel here on TL.

Congrats to Dinero on this impressive day. I have to say - of the many, many people that have come and gone on this forum, Dinero is one of the few doing the work day in and day out. How do I know? We chat through email from time-to-time and he's really working hard at this. And it's showing. Keep up the great work!!

Thread closed till James decides what to do w/ these off topic posts.

Good luck Cory and keep it going!

Contrary to an opinion or two, I do use this thing daily and know quite a bit about it. I actually use the product that I provide information on. It's a novel concept, but I thought if I was going to offer information on this, I probably should use it every single day.

This may be of use to those that want to overlay an indicator of a certain timeframe on a different timeframe (ie, a 5 min bollinger band on a 1 min chart). There's a few reasons to do this, but I just wanted to outline here how it's done via OEC trader. 1) Open up your chart to the higher timeframe you want to use. Let's use a 15 minute CL chart for example here. 2) Click INSERT > ADD NEW CONTRACT (top menu bar). In Contract choose the CL contract you want. 3) IMPORTANT - while still in this dialog box, click the button under new area and select your contract there. Also click Right Axis button. 4) It will look like nothing happened, but there is now 2 contracts on this chart. 5) Apply your indicator (here I've applied a bollinger band). 6) Here's where it can get a little tricky.... a. Click the top right <<. b. Click the 2nd GCL and bring up that menu. c. Go down to Misc and change timeframe to the other setting you want. Here I choose the 5 min timeframe. d. Looking at the chart, you will see some overlap b/c there's 2 charts on there. e. Go back into your other GCL setting and change that to Transparent. 7) Add your indicator (here bollinger bands) and now in the input section you will see a few more options. 8) If your indicator is covering price up, it could be how the outline is being laid. You may need to change to a LINE setting. When I applied these bollingers, price was covered up by some of the bollinger in the range setting. When I changed that to a line, it worked fine. 9) Final result is a 5 minute chart with 15 min bollingers: NOTE - You'll see the top left shows the countdown for the main setting, which is the higher timeframe. I do not know of any way to change that.

Is there a way to block receiving PMs from a specified member? If so, how? thanks

As with many things in data reporting, there isn't always a standard is looks like. Here's what I was able to get regarding this issue: Bottom line: It is not a bug. There are several implementations of range bars. It seems OEC is using one that differs from eSignal and Sierra. Is OEC's implementation correct? That is open for discussion as pointed out here. Could OEC conform to how eSignal and Sierra reports? Yes, if approved. One other thing to note is OEC doesn’t fill gaps with fake ticks. I would suggest that if you would like the data represented according to how eSignal and Sierra presents the data, send a support ticket expressing your desire.

I'm a little behind here. Been a busy week... 2-1-10: +$470 2-2-10: +$310 2-3-10: +$40 Nothing great, but it's profit. Working on a few other things to time entries a bit better. We'll see.

And the million dollar question is - how does one know when to just buy/sell the open and let it ride all day vs. being nimble and taking your profits while it's there? And the question is while it's happening, not after... I agree that the trend chart is super easy to trade - buy on the open, buy the breakout, buy the pullbacks, buy whatever you want b/c it just went up. But how can you do that on Tue and not it do it on Wed when that method would just chop you up all over the place?

1) Do what Thales said 2) Know where the buy vs. sell buttons are