Recent content by JeffreyLin

I love thinkorswim, especially their charts and how customizable and how u can code and modify the indicators to your heart's desire. However, I believe their papertrade isn't realistic, especially for futures. It's been about 2 months since I've tried their papertrade so it might've changed...

I've been settling into using a 6-tick stop loss the the ES (S&P E-minis) and starting to get comfortable with this. I take partial profits at a 6-tick gain and let the 2nd one stay as a runner. Would like to know what risk/reward parameters others use for ES, NQ and TF futures.

Hi Skris, I'm in the U.S. so things may be slightly different, but I use Interactive Brokers (IB) exclusively for executing my trades. It looks like if each tick is $25, if you buy a 5 lot, each tick move in the index is 5 x $25 = $125. So if the index goes up 1 tick, you make $125, and if it...

Thanks for the info. I'll give Matt a ring sometime and see what they offer.

Depending on what you're looking for in a platform, I'd suggest using ThinkOrSwim or Ninja trader for charting and analytics and using a top quality broker for execution. Do you trade directly off the DOM or how do you enter trades? I personally use Interactive Brokers, but Infinity Futures...

What an interesting find by wikileak...To put JPM's slides and info on the web. Very interesting read. This internal memo teaches employees how to do such "illegal" insider trading. Summary WikiLeak's intro to this piece: " This confidential, internal JP Morgan presentation details the...

I agree..ThinkOrswim.com's futures and forex is getting much better-and their charting, scanning, and programming you can do is the best out there. If at first your data is delayed by 20mins in the papertrading account, ask them to make it real time so you can see how your system or...

what do you mean by "SB"

15 yrs...i'd almost think only the exchanges have that...have the online brokers for futures even been around that long?

Hey there I'm Jeff in SoCal. Hated finance & econ in college, but when I got really really sick 3 yrs ago and was confined to my room, I started learning the markets and the traditional "diversified portfolio with endless fundamental analysis". When the market started tanking, I started...