Recent content by sjrider2397

Reading this is making me feel very young...(30) It is good to know who the veterans on this forum are. It makes me wonder if trading was easier back then. I am starting to think that the less technology we put on are charts ie.. rsi, macd, ema, stochastics, etc. the better off we are...

But what I can't understand from your chart is the relevance of the MACD ? It seems to me that you could have taken the same trades without the MACD on your chart ? I'm not having a bash, I'd just like to understand ? cheers, r_e I started reading back through my trading journal...it seems...

I agree mirus futures/ninjatrader...are as good or better then most..I have never had trouble with either one

sometimes I do not get the reversal bar that I am looking for. I will still enter the trade on a descent upthrust if the macd line is below zero and hooks back up.. but maybe I do not need it. I have not taken some trades because of where the macd was..some worked out great others I am glad I...

I am hopeing to share and toss around some winning strategies for trading the emini russell. I have been trading it for over a year now profitably. I have developed my strategy based on combinig what I felt were good ideas from other traders. It has not been easy to do..but it is definetly...

I trade seriously with my laptop. When I am at home it is in my office hooked up to 2 different screens both are 32 inch hdtv, so I have a total of three monitors to trade with. I also hook up a usb mouse, learned that the hard way. When I travel I trade with just my laptop. You can not see...

I trade for a living. Meaning, that I pay all of my bills from my trading profits. I make alot more then pocket change and vacation money. You are already ahead of most people knowning that the learning curve is long. A friend of mine took 9 years some part time some full time before he was...

I am profitable and making a living daytrading the es. I will admit that I do not completley understand fantasticfour 's trading plan, but I am very happy to see one. advnftrader, if you do not have a trading plan, find one, copy one, steal one, I do not care how but you need to get one, and...

You should take some of the great advice on here already. You do not need all of those indicators. pick one and learn it. I prefer the macd but I do not trade "the crosses". Why do you always sale when the indicator is overbought, I have seen those things stay overbought for hours, driving...

This is great advice, every new trader should concentrate on s/r lines, learn how to draw them and learn which ones are major. I know where they are before entering any trade.

I trade very well on volume charts not time frames. My chart is 2250 volume bar chart for the es emini. sometimes that is a candle every 25 seconds and sometimes it take about a minute. On the other hand I do not do very well at all, in fact I lose money when I trade on hour chart or even a 15...

I am not here to argue. If you feel the need to trade all day long then so be it. I turn on my computer at 7:30 am Which in my time zone is when the us stock market opens up. I spend the first 15 minutes drawing horizontal trend lines. I then will trade until about 10:00 am. I make anywhere...

Mel has learned that life is not all about money. He owns a wonderul home, has a great family and no debt. He has decided that he would rather spend time fly fishing or visiting with his family, then to stare at a computor screen for 10 hours a day. I agree with him. The whole reason I...

That phrase has more truth to then most of the advice out there. When you trade your goal should be to not lose money. If you succeed at not losing your money, by have good money managment, then you will make money. It took me way to long and cost me way to much money to learn that.