Recent content by laytonm

Received some advertising from a company called forexmanaged.co.uk Easy to find with google. Professional looking webpage with results that look too good to be true, mentioning 3rd party auditing etc etc. Claim do not hold clients funds themselves Has anyone any experience with these type of...

Hi Interesting that you did some work in this area and then didn't go on to use it in practice. I haven't really looked into the theory too much, just (after having read 10's of books on trading methods) seemed to settle on this one. Mark

Trading Chaos by Bill Williams and Fractal Edge Hi I was looking for posts about Bill Williams and Trading Chaos to see whether anyone else is trading with these methods, when I came accross your post. I think 'total charleton' is a bit harsh to be honest. I've read Trading Chaos (Version2)...

So my holiday came at a bad time wrt closing my nasdaq shorts and not revesing to short gold. Oh well.

Yes, that's terribly cheesy, and awesome is not much better in my book. Nearly put me off when I started reading the books. My main trading method before I read these books was essentially a modified Gann approach buying pullbacks when an uptrend had not been broken and vice versa. I have...

Hi Karla I've only been able to 'eyeball' angulation. I agree it is the only tricky bit of this approach. I try and make a rule that if there is not obvious angulation between the blue line and the price bars, then I ignore it. Gold's a good example. I thought that there was some...

Not a problem at all. I looked at day trading because I find it psychologically difficult keeping a position open for days / weeks, especially when it moves into the red. Several times I've closed trades which would have been profitable if I'd had more patience. But as I said, I found that...

That's interesting, thanks. Last year I traded the mini dow contract on 5 min bars using v3 exclusively for about 5-6 weeks. This was the most profitable trading that I have every experienced but was too intensive for me. I took some time off work to see if I could do this full time. I could...

Hi Peter I've been trading different markets - stock indices, a few of the larger Nasdaq stocks like ebay (only reason for selecting this group is because I used to daytrade and am familiar with these), commodities and forex. I also used the same methods to daytrade the minidow for a few...

Hi I've been using the methods described in Trading Chaos (v2) for about a year now. I have to say that I've found it to be a very good method. I've attached a chart of some forex trades that I've made, but I've also traded other markets and other time frames which I'm quite happy to share if...

Interesting thread. When I first read the interview with Steve Copan in Traders mag, I was quite interested in this - although not for 2k! Now I'm being mailshotted like it were a Vince Stanzione last ever trading seminar. I'm sceptical that a successful trading methodology would really...

Cheers, I'll take a look

Tax for UK folks with a US equities account Hi All Have not posted for a few weeks - had to drop daytrading because of an upsurge in activity with the 'day job'. Have been swing trading US stocks which is also fun, but needs a little more patience. Trying to free up some time given that it's...

I see. Thanks. Mark

Hi Could you help me with a real commodities 101 type question. I'm looking to start trading commodities after having a degree of success swing trading US stocks. I have been paper-trading corn, and some other markets. My query is about where best to place stop orders when trading daily...