Recent content by duncanhoo

18. If you are not waking up at 6 AM on a Saturday clamoring to get to your computer to evaluate your mistakes from Friday - then this might not be the right path. 19. Dont run out and buy a bunch of computers, monitors, screens, data backups etc. You dont need any of that to figure out if...

more: 11. Set your goals modestly with whatever you are doing and build on successes. For example, dont have an initial goal of making $x/day....but perhaps 1 successful trade/day [ALL PAPER TRADING] or breakeven or something realistic. This will be good for your confidence 12. Find someone...

forgot a couple 8. Maintain a positive attitude no matter what...hating yourself for your mistakes will only breed more mistakes. 9. +1 dude above me - leverage your strengths (I.T. is HUGE). 10. Find the winners (people) and learn from them.

AlwaysANoob, I am in a similar situation (age - kids etc.)... In my case the opportunity cost numbers are much higher. But I also find the path to that opportunity cost very unrewarding (travel - 70 hr weeks, etc. etc.) and I started researching "trading" many months ago. I have found through...

constrictor example: Look at chart of ESV at 2:18 PM today EST. I actually had two orders entered: a buy stop to go long at about 56.37 with auto stop loss of about 9 cents and a sell short stop at about 56.23. When the specialists started fishing it around a bit and the SPY turned back over...

this one was NICE....so hard to find such a clean one minute chart. i about fell out of my chair when i saw the time scale.

sorry - i have been dormant on this thread for a while. Glad to see you back on it Richard. Cheered me up a bit to get back on. been busy with my day job. i have also changed my trade-ideas filters if anyone wants the new ones. - just email me at duncanhoo at gmail dot com. Richard - one...

Richard, ON the WDC trade - did you enter one bar late? (not a critique just want to clarify my understanding of the setup) Also - noticed the SPY had been cascading for a WHILE when you entered AND it was later in the morning....any correlation or conclusions to draw?

That is what i am looking for...how people are doing with his strategies. Just looking for some constructive chit chat on pros/cons and real world experiences.

Been researching his patterns and reading his writing. learning a ton but wondering and thinking about applying some of his strategies with my own special tweaks. Anyone out there experienced with his methods and have any feedback (besides: "backtest", "spend four years trying", "the best...

I had same issue with Tradestation on Monday - Entered two trades and the stops were all messed up in the software.....they fixed it. I really like esignal 11 speed and layout but much prefer tradestation's order entry etc...anyone recommend something else?

thank so very much for this tip...i have been struggling with "reading" level II on E11. Going to try out 10.6 today.

email me and i will give you the tradeideas code that i am using. disclaimer - yesterday had virtually no valid hits on long side. short side much better but yesterday was very choppy. in my short experience tradestation does not work fast enough to do this...only esignal loads the charts...

one more note: scanner gives you about 1-4 minutes of advance warning...so if you are not on top of it you see alot of "Oh darn, should have traded that". At least that is what i say now instead of: "i might be a little late but maybe there is more"...

1. just because i can find it does not mean i trade it successfully (yet) - in fact, i entered three trades on this setup yesterday. two i traded ok (=.40 or so) and one i cut off for a .02/share profit to watch it roll for another .50..:mad: 2. I do not claim to be able to read level II but...