I also tried a quick date with Harold's girl - she spun me round so fast I got dizzy (& stopped out +9) : image

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I agree totally : the q in my mind was as to whether one might, for example, have a plan in which one took every single 123 on a fast chart. The only way to test this imho would be in sim over a reasonable period, during which it would be hard to do ...

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Looks v interesting,dd. Thanks for sharing and looking fwd to hearing more.

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A core question for a day trader: the "correct" answer is of course to be disciplined and only take the most well-formed setups...but I have this nagging feeling that if you're really in the zone, taking them all is not only what works, but also ...

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Strong move off the LO (actually, already off the FO an hour earlier), but no entry set ups for me on either FDXM or YM. I tried a couple of nervy long swing resumption entries, but bailed on both : these were trades that had to resume fast or I was ...

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Nice chart, CG. I think I'm going to try a spell of AIAO, rather than scaling out : I had a lot of t1 hit then back to b/e +1 this month, so I think a simple 2R target will go on the menu...

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Great link, td - Barry's site is a good one, although he is also a longtime TradeStation (as well as NinjaTrader) user who doesn't know the "Exchange Hours" fix ! In other business... come on miniDAX (stalling at the Open) : image Edit : out @ ...

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As a former long-time TradeStation user, the answer lay in whether you chose "Natural Hours" (your local time zone) or "Exchange Hours" : with Exchange Hours, the first tick of the day was synched with the exchange, so everyone's chart looked the ...

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It is a bit ghostly. Me, I'm cooking dinner for my vegan daughter at the mo, roasting pumpkin and spuds & about to make a big salad. Having failed to knock it out of the park this morning (one stupid error), I have made the princely total shown ...

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Out of the park = bravo, H

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Nice trading . Most of my UK friends spreadbet because (usually) no tax, but I thought you were in the Ukraine - or was that just The Blonde (I never forget a pretty face) ?

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Bravo, CG - are you trading the DAX CFD (would love to see 1 chart of 1 trade) ?

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Well, dear H, you are an old rocker yourself ... maybe that's why she's so cooperative ... lol. I have basically taken this week off from live trading as I refamiliarise myself with the ES. I have tried everything to seduce her, largely without ...

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Seems to me to be an issue whatever the "base" chart (time, range, tick) - perhaps simplest solution is to over or underlay a bar chart to see exactly where price went and where ledges of supp / res were forming.

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Btw, a propos the ES, it has its own character - I'm getting well & truly spanked. Not trading it Live till consistently positive in SIM .

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Fatal flaw backtesting line charts ? So shoot me down, please, guys, but having spent a lot of the last 24hrs attempting to accurately backtest 123 & 2b setups, I think the fatal flaw is that in hindsight you simply do not see all the failed ...

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Great stuff : go for it !

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H - are you only using 1113t (interesting number !?) for YM at the moment, please ?

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Well done ! The worst thing is to have a great session and then realise the platform is still in sim mode (I always switch back to sim when leaving my computer for any length of time). Still watching the 2b setups here : image

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Just had an old friend around who's recently retired & interested in trading. I was explaining a 2b pattern and looked at the current ES chart & was surprised at how many there were in the 2 hour period we were looking at : image Incidentally, H, ...

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