Dinerotrader

Jon, not sure if you read my prior post but it appears we think alike.

SIM -$682 2 days of big losses and I feel the confidence draining away. Got stoped out of my long on GNG at the low of the day so I'll start moving my stops a few ticks farther and see if that helps. Still working on taking fewer trades. I thought FOMC would provide some good movement but didn't do anything useful.

As long as the thread is about cars and we get some pictures as often as possible, all is good here. No worries about thread jacking.

SIM -$715 Oil trend caught me off guard even though it gapped up. Didn't ride out some of the good trades I was in.

That is the answer I was hoping for. I like simple. Thanks.

I actually called Lenovo yesterday because you can't order the W700 right now. They said they are not selling it right now but are planning on selling it again starting in March.

You want to turn some heads at starbucks. Here is one that is supposedly coming out soon. See gscreencorp.com That would be a pretty compact screen setup.

Manual isn't that great. You can tick on one box or both depends if you want automatic exits on both the loss and profit side. Use the Buy limit and Sell limit for your exit for taking profit. Use Buy stop and Sell stop for setting your stop loss exits. Play around with them and they will start to make sense. I don't normally have profit target exits sitting out on the DOM so I don't use buy limit and sell limits when I bracket.

Here is a pick from the W series with the expandable screen. doesn't that little expansion look perfect for a DOM. I haven't seen a better setup than this but I haven't looked too long. It might be nice to have some portable screens that were flat on both sides and had a collapseable stand so you could easily throw them in a briefcase or luggage. A lot of it depends on how you trade. Some people need 4 screens to trade one future and lightning connection/processing speed due to their method of trading. They are going to require much more to get mobile. I haven't heard of many on TL being traveling traders. I'd be interested to hear from traders who actually travel and trade at the same time. For some reason this appears to be a big perk of daytrading before you actually start daytrading. Then the realities of trading kick in. For me I think, "why don't I just make more money (trade more contracts) before I travel and then I can travel without needing to trade at all."

If I understood your question correctly, you wanted to know how to put in a bracket order so you had an automatic stop loss entered when you put in an order. Click on the little triangle symbol at the top of the DOM. This opens up the bracket selection options at the bottom of the DOM. Then just select what you want.

Ahh, I see I mis-spoke. Gotta check the details better before I post. That would be 10,500 for 5 licenses. My mistakel So more like $2,100 per person. Still way to expensive obviously. I wasn't all that impressed myself. They are just using it from a business perspective. They aren't traders.

1. Is there a way to roll all the S/R marked on one chart to the next contract's chart?Basically, keep the chart marking/setting the same except change the contract input data at rollover time. Couple more questions 2. Is there a way to make it so the time doesn't show up and constantly update on the chart tabs? 3. Is there a way to minimize the chart screen? The only thing I can minimize is the entire OEC program so if I want to see my quotes screen, I have to move my charts around and out of the way instead of just minimizing them.

SIM +$1,295 Good day on P/L but I blew my exits on 2 natural gas trades that cost me mucho ticko. Most of my early oil trades have been proving poor so I might start holding off on making trades until things get going. Didn't even watch silver. I am considering dropping the RLM. It doesn't seem like I have ever been able to get in synch with it on a consistent basis. The 6E didn't give me much to work with, 2 BE trades and 1 small profit. 2 Week Summary Its been a good 2 weeks. I've been changing my trading methods a bit and so far so good. I only allow myself to trade 1 contract right now on every trade. I now know I have the ability to do well, it is just a matter of getting the consistency down, limiting losses, and trading the same way with real money. No small tasks. This thread became like the gym. Crowed right after new year's day and then down to just a few in February.

Okay, I get it. I'll stop trading silver.

SIM -$750 Tomorrow's another day. Silver slaughtered me. Got stopped out of its rally by one tick. Natural gas saved the day again but it took staying in one trade for 2 hours. It seems like everything was moving in tandem today except GNG. Almost called it a day when I was up $300 but I didn't.

sappjason, Without sharing more than you're comfortable sharing, what is the basis behind your program trading setups, exits, money management, etc? It would be nice to have a program trade for me. Then I could yell at the computer program instead of myself on loss days.

FWIW I was dealing with these issues a while back. TDameritrade keeps a count for you so you know when you are about to break the rule which is nice. I also had 3 other trading accounts at another broker that I could use so that I could trade more often.

That is what I thought. Managing trade of differing time frames sounds like a normal thing to me so I thought there might be a slight chance there was a way. I guess I could just setup with another broker for longer term positions.

Does anyone trade varying lot sizes depending on how "good" the setup is? I remember some market wizards saying that they did this. I only trade 1 contract on every trade because I have no good way of testing the statistics of my setups so that I could concretely say that one is better than another. I may think some are better but I can't prove it so how could I bet on it. Changing lot sizes sounds like a very risky proposition to me unless you have some great way to put rules around it that make sense.

Remember that most of us reading your thread a pulling for you to do well. We've all made mistakes, had losses, entered bad trades, been embarrased at our losses, etc..... Keep working.

Thanks, even though its all just SIM right now. The only reason I trade what I trade is because of the price movement. I don't think any fundamental understanding I have about the future price of oil makes me any better at trading it. However, the way oil moves seems to be much easier to trade than other futures I have looked at. So basically, if you can find more instruments to trade that have similar price movements to oil, I would be interested but the mere associated of the underlying goods is irrelevent for me. I appreciate the idea though.

Is there a way to have 2 different positions on one contract in OEC. For example, say I trade oil get long at some major support level and plan to ride that position for several days. Then, in the mean time I see some good short positions for a 5-20 minute hold. How can I manage these positions?

2/10/2010 In case anyone was interested in seeing what the people who trade oil on fundamentals use for their analysis, I attached a pdf of a what the big oil and gas guys I know are looking at. Its about $11,000 minimum to subscribe to this for one year. I don't use it in my trading right now but I thought it was interesting to go through and consider. schork-TSR-20100210.pdf

I'm still waiting for the stock market to get its footing before looking for any new long positions, hence the period of no posting. I took profits on everything a while back when the ES started breaking through support levels. Everything looks like its on a blue light special sale right now but I am looking for more strength before making any bets. I only have one position open which is in FORM at $15.71. I am happy enough with this one long term I will probably average down if we get closer to big support levels and cut it loose if it makes all time lows. Note: In addition to my trading money, I actively trade all my retirement funds so when I say I only have one position, that means I am all in cash, no mutual funds, etc.

SIM +$1,075 Tried a few new things that worked out. Getting pretty anxious to start trading real money but still have some ironing to do on myself and methods. Its interesting. The first time I tried to trade natural gas I decided the movements were horrible and not for me. Now I practically rely on it for my big moves. Still not sure about trading silver but I like the idea of having some metals in the mix. Gold is too cliche, right. We'll see if I can pull some consistent profits out of it. I always thought the idea of revenge in trading was for the weak minded before I got trading. Well, either I am weak minded or revenge emotions exist for everyone. Just because I had a bad day on the Russel (RLM) yesterday, I find myself almost muttering under my breath when I look at the chart today just waiting to get my money back. LOL:rofl:. I lost again of course.