Agreed - and of course he has something to sell - BUT the essential point is : why trade a volatile, less stable instrument with a 1 lot 20 tick stop and 20 tick target, when you can trade a relatively much more stable, lower margin instrument with, ...

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H - this guy says some interesting things specifically about ZB and FGBL (I don't know him or his software, but there's some good stuff for "ideas") : url The question is : how to see clearly on a chart what a pit trader sees in order flow ? ...

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Having started jabbering away on this wet Friday afternoon, I will add a comment or two more about why I set up & posted that line chart. There is one entry method I have always wanted to use - it seems very professional, but I have never had the ...

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Just remember the Bund is a very different animal to CL & take your time to familiarise yourself with it. It used to be VERY liquid and mostly slow moving : tradeable with tiny stops and small targets. It's different now because of ongoing extreme ...

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I'm trading Bund and 6E (Euro futures) only at the mo... Hey, fawzy : RSI has not been used on this thread for a long time....

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Nicely done, 'ras. As for me, ain't got nuttin' to do on rainy afternoons, trading as I do in the mornings.... so my Friday afternoon charts are beginning to look peculiar, like that friend of H's, fxp : image Stare at it long enough, you start ...

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Seems good and if it works ongoingly, seems even better.... thanks for sharing, H. I have gone in the opposite direction, reducing my setups, in an effort to make trading even more boring*. I basically trade one setup only, a retrace to the MA in a ...

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I really am getting old... I have switched my second market from EURUSD to 6E (it's a Ninja thing : no Static SuperDOM for FX, & I prefer futures anyway)... so on this laboriously slooooooooow morning, I'm thinking "Enough for today", even though it ...

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Thank-you for sharing the stats, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus : 43% winners across the board and very profitable. That's realistic trading for you Quiet morning on the EU front : the trade I took and the one I missed (red triangle) : ...

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Hi, handy - I am just back from my annual meditation retreat, so have not been following the thread the last 2 weeks.... but assuming it is indeed the NinjaTrader indi you seek, it's called anaHeikinAshi and was coded by Fat Tails, a very proliifc ...

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He said ticks as he trades futures... ... you'll find a post or two.... over 6,500 of them.... on his thread : url ...

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Just as well you're here, H - I'll roll to July now

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Yeah, I want my money back, H - pls send a cashiers cheque to the Liechtenstein account as usual... More seriously, I was just sipping my hot chocolate, when this setup appeared... but I FatFingered (jtrade TM) my exit for +9 instead of +20 ...

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Thank-you, Clive for a lovely & inspiring poem ! One last bit of unsolicited input - a suggestion - from me, then I'll mind my own business : for one month, define and trade ONE SETUP ONLY according to your ruleset, in demo. Write down the T Plan ...

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Ed Seykota quote for the day : Perseverance without change is dangerous.

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Chairman of The Bored here again (no trades yet this morning ).... so as no-one asked, here is ... The Offical jtrade Top 3 FF threads "How to learn to trade" (listed in alphabetical order only) : * Flag Trading The Trend (you are here, ...

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I'll tell you what, td : this thread - from start to finish - is a trading course all in itself. The method has gone through various iterations, but there are so many pearls of wisdom if you have the patience to sift through it. I'd really recommend ...

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Hey, Sally, Only one, badly-executed oil trade today : image My focus is switching to trading this method on FGBL, the German bund during the EU mornings, so I prob won't be around much from now on (although I always keep an eye on what H is ...

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Earlier in this very thread as a matter of fact...

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