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    Practical Mantra - Questions a traders asks before placing a trade

    Quiet Star Gazing I feel to many traders I speak with are just staring at this 2D world. You need to talk to yourself, trust me you are not crazy, you are profitable! As a homo-sapien taking part in spaceship earth... I feel we have evolved from Action ----> Reaction to a Stimulus --->...
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    Practical Mantra - Questions a traders asks before placing a trade

    If market moves in my direction and trade fills long or short Should I move my stop lose to break even? Should I scalp out of this trade? Are we in a channnel with LH and HL? Are we in a trend with HH or LL?
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    Practical Mantra - Questions a traders asks before placing a trade

    if going short Why are you selling at this price and time? Should you be going long
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    Practical Mantra - Questions a traders asks before placing a trade

    if going long Why are you buying at this price and time? Should you be selling here?
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    Practical Mantra - Questions a traders asks before placing a trade

    Please keep this based on practical methodology or questions that create stimulus so mistakes from the past are not present in the now. I will start this thread with a questions that I ask myself every time before placing a trade. Since probability is subjective, and can only be defined with...
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    Indicators are liars! Support and Resistance Trading for the S&P emini

    Tick Chart Hello, Thanks for all the free information on S & R levels! Is there anyway we can be shown how to draw these levels? My charting service has a lot of these pivots automatically via studies however the levels seem to be different? I use Sierra Charts. What size tick chart do you...
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    Here is the way i daytrade the Emini-YM

    Stochastic question Bashir, Are you only taking the stochastic signals if they cross greater than 85 or less than 15? Because if I enable that setting on the crossover system, it gives me all crossover arrows if they cross anywhere not obeying levels, if i leave the setting on No it only...
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    Here is the way i daytrade the Emini-YM

    Futures not Forex I am trading Futures currency contracts not Forex. In my opinion the volatility is different because of the liquidity and the dealing desks involved with forex. Also, because futures are options based. It is used as a hedging vehicle for most banks.
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    Here is the way i daytrade the Emini-YM

    Stop Lose The stop is less then 20ticks or the trade is not taken in my testing. I set the stop at the low of the last bar on the higher time frames, 30min & 10min. However, if the signal is taken from the tick chart, I use the last fractal low or high. Which is the case in the attached...
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    Here is the way i daytrade the Emini-YM

    Forum and Navig Trading After reading much of the forum, I am confused why the settings have changed for the system? Without posting on the forum, I have been testing the system from the very first post with great results. The only difference is I am tighter on my stop lose and profit targets...
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    Here is the way i daytrade the Emini-YM

    New Futures Trader Hello, I just joined the forum, purchased Sierra Charts and running Multi-Bracket orders like we were instructed. I have attached a chart with a potential trade, I was wondering if the Stochastic Crossover System arrows that comes standard with Sierra are valid instead of...
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