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Which contract - CL or QM? Note - as a newbie to oil, don't worry about dropping 100 contracts there. LOL.

Difference is #1 could bleed a slow death and #2 could be a swift and quick take down. It comes down to what your system has shown in backtesting and forward testing. A $200 stop is not huge, but also can be plenty if managed properly.

I personally have traded the Euro contract fine on the CME w/ no issues during the day. Have not traded any of the other contracts.

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Let's see... Reaver's status: Last Activity: 11-27-2007 02:43 PM And this thread: Last Activity: 10-28-2007, 12:54 AM Maybe try to find a thread from the year 2008. The most recent, the better.

Read this thread now.

^^^^ look above ^^^^

Enough said. We can assume that either you are paying for a mentorship and/or found a generous soul and there is a condition of non-disclosure. Good luck and hope it works out!

JB - what setups are you using for your trades? Feel like sharing or no? Might be able to give some feedback and speed up that learning curve if you give us some screenshots and annotations. If not, that's fine too. The one thing that I probably needed more than anything when I started out was just having more sets of eyes look at what I was doing.

daed - I am curious, so understand not an attack here. What firms are like what you've said here where you just pay a commission and in theory the firms do not care if you win or lose? I would like to take a look and see a few examples of firms like that. Do you personally regularly w/draw profits from your account w/o issues? Do you see any of these mysterious spikes that you do hear about?

Aaron - I did my best to clean the thread up, let me know if I missed something. And now back to the regularly scheduled thread already in progress. :thumbs up:

I've attempted to move the posts about futures vs. forex into a new thread. As a mod of this one area, I can only move into a new candlestick corner thread. We'll keep it here unless another mod wants to move it.

I don't even remember when the CME went down last....

That is very true darth, esp in trading. Most, if not all of us, have been through the indicators game, change certain settings game, etc. etc. and it just takes time to 'get it'.

Depends FS. A doji in and of itself is meaningless w/o a chart to examine. A doji in the middle of a range IMO means absolutely nothing. A doji that is retesting a HOD or LOD in a double/triple top type setup is a different story. Equally important - what constant volume setting is being used? A 500 or 25,000 setting? What market(s)? Not nearly enough information in your question to provide any real response.

FX has less manipulation than futures? Seriously? I've seen it all here now.

I don't recall exactly, but market discussion or futures is cool w/ me. I'm curious who moved this initially and why...

Am I the only person in the premium area, hence the reason I cannot get a reply to this?

Been playing phone tag.

Anyone home?

When my livelihood is on the line, I think I will go w/ the most qualified, regardless of costs.

Perhaps in theory, but more often than not it will result in different results in real-time. For example, using the ABC setup on a minute chart vs. tick chart vs. volume chart vs. range chart will all yield different results using the exact same setup.

I agree MC. I have/would consider working with other traders but as we discussed, it's not an easy task to make it worthwhile for everyone involved, esp when you are dealing with a stranger for sake of argument. If it was a close friend or family member, I would have no reservations about doing it at no charge. But to freely provide a trading plan to a stranger is not easy for anyone I would think, esp if it took years and thousands upon thousands to get to this point. Whether you find that mentor or not MC, just keep at it and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Ummm... who moved this? It explicitly says that I reposted in the general pop area. And that's where I, the author, would like it. If not, please delete this thread and this one as well. I'll decide where I want my posts to be visible, thank you very much.

Tired of trading all day. That's all. Trading 7am-415pm can wear you out and I don't feel like doing that much more. Time to enjoy the fruits of my labor. And now back to the OP's thread as this could be a good one. If you want to take this up on a separate thread, let me know.