Recent content by agrokid

I've used them for years. Friendly, reliable, not pompous. You can now trade with them direct from eSignal charts. If you're a swing trader eSignal 10min delayed charts are incredibly cheap at around £50/m for everything worldwide. Or you can have realtime with free Globex data for around £100/m...

I'm using V11 but losing interest. Seems to me it's designed by programmers not traders. Gone is the very useful display of bid and ask on the chart when you clicked either Buy or Sell. A wide spread of bid/ask clearly showed an undecided market when it's usually better to wait. Gone are the Buy...

OK, Timsk, here are two charts to help you stay in business. Why has this worked for so long ? The trick is in choosing instruments which move steadily. You'll note I don't trade individual stocks, and you really need a lot of experience to trade agricultural commodities. Another easy one, but...

Here's another idea I've found useful. Stop drawing charts in landscape format to fill most of your screen. Instead draw then in portrait format to fill about half the width of your screen and include only about three months of daily bars. This gives a better impression of the urgency of the...

Timsk, Why not go to your own charting software and draw Bollinger(10,1.9) on any of the instruments I've mentioned ? To learn well you must work hard and long. There's no easy way.

In view of the volatile political situation in late March 2011 the instruments I trade have been reduced to just five: eminiS&P500, Comex Gold, AUD/USD, EUR/USD and GBP/USD. These are the steadiest and most predictable. I like to keep the first two because on 9/11 they moved in opposite...

I've been trading for twenty years and some guy tells me to keep a notebook !

Personally I trade ONLY ES, 6A, 6B, 6E and GC. Mostly because they trend well. Also because 6A is really a bet on commodities. And because GC and ES went in opposite directions at 9/11. If you look at very long term charts of ES and GC you'll see they never go down for long. That's because they...

Use realtime charts from ProRealTime. Try to trade five charts, being one chart from each of these five groups: Currencies(AUDUSD, EURUSD, GBPUSD, JPYUSD), Indices(eS&P500,eN100), Grains(Corn, Oats, Soybeans, Wheat), Energies(Natural Gas, Light Crude), Metals(Gold). Draw Bollinger(10,1.9)...