go dollar go!

US Retail Sales (Jan 12 2007)

blowout report! prior Retail Sales Less Autos revised to 0.7% from 1.1%! dollar looks like a buy here, not sure what all this current business is about.

US Retail Sales (Jan 12 2007)

good point dark! im surprised the concensus on the core sales is so high after the ungly predictions we got out of the stock market. but the dollar seems to be gaining strength easy than it loses it, so it kinda makes this report hard to read.

US Retail Sales (Jan 12 2007)

sure, if you are trading the most liquid contracts, but day in and day out, i think you get worse news fills trading futures. news fills everywhere suck though, its just a matter of what is worse

Broker With Guaranteed order execution?

bravo!!!

Problem with my broker regarding the news trading!

yet some people will still complain about being slipped LOL

WTF! Surprise UK Rate Hike!

pretty much it was a surprise. i didnt hear anyone calling for a hike. there was a rumor that flew around about an hour before the release (saw it on TTN) that said there was slight possibility of a hike, but thats all i can find. anyone have a ...

WTF! Surprise UK Rate Hike!

prior was revised up too.

AUD Employment report

burger why did you stop trading the aud report?

AUD Employment report

nice report! looks like a nice buy still after the spike.

AUD Employment report

dollar shows some impressive strength with just a slightly better than expected number. the dollar is strong boys.

US Trade Balance (Jan 10, 2007)

just heard TTN talking about this. oil was trading around $58 in November, so i dont think oil will have too much of a positive effect on US trade numbers.

US Trade Balance (Jan 10, 2007)

whats up buger, finally we get a decent repot this week to answer your question, yes it does include oil purchases.

US Trade Balance (Jan 10, 2007)

yeah that was kind of my point i was getting at.. to me, a quantitative trader is a discretionary trader who bases their trade decisions on math. a fundamental trader is a discretionary trader who bases their trades decisions on news, market feel, ...

Flexible Mechanical Trading vs. Discretional Trading

if you have ever been faced with the decision of whether or not to stop trading a mechanical system (because the drawdown is past tested limit), and you can tell me you have no emotion, then you also would have no emotion when trading discretionary. ...

Flexible Mechanical Trading vs. Discretional Trading

i chose "i don't know" for one very important reason. mechanical trading IS discretionary trading! i didnt even realize this until many years into my trading career. but think about it....think of how many decisions the mechanical system trader must ...

Flexible Mechanical Trading vs. Discretional Trading

it is.

How to get 1-5 pips with 100% win ratio?

LOL it takes a while to learn that lots of things look good on paper but fail in reality. you can shortcut this learning process by reading some good books, i would suggest Van Tharp's book to you, it will really open your eyes! good luck!

Martingale EA. Almost can't lose!

yes Orange has the ability to do this using the "merge thread" tool. orange, if you decide to do this, be careful because its a little tricky. orange, another idea you might like, if you want to create a "slimmed down" version of this thread, you ...

SRDC Episode II

guys we had to trim a few pages off this thread because it was just a spam haven, and a lot of bickering. this is a great thread, lets not get it off track again:

Lets Trade The News V 0.2 !