There's also the Globex close, which in my experience is the most respected.

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Hello chaps, interesting conversation. Could we call it habit rather than intuition? And by that I don't mean rote habit but conscious habit. And could it be that, a lot of the time, intuition = into-wishing? (Seykota)

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Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Makes sense as you have predicted an all-time high today

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Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Actually, in relation to the thread starter's question, you got it all wrong. None of that applies to his challenges. It's a zero-sum game with costs, yes, but the market isn't a game of equal players. It's more like an eco-system - the individual ...

How to make a living with trading?

Exactly. Some people are winners and some are not. Those who aren't winners do not, per definition, understand what the winners do. So let's leave the winners to the impossibilities of what they are achieving, and let's take an honest look at ...

How to make a living with trading?

I sympathise with the challenge of making a living from a small account, and I hope you can successfully overcome your challenges. Having said that, I do not think that your account size is the problem. If you have been consistently profitable for ...

How to make a living with trading?

Ok, thanks.

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Why, if I may ask?

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Or perhaps keep it glued to 12100 in order to make a lot of options expire worthless - that is, those with strike 12100.

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

SL=0 hit

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Short @12102.5, stop at BE, TP 30. Time to get back to balance.

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Spread is related to liquidity, and it's not a very liquid contract, so one can't expect a tight spread. Not a contract for daytrading, methinks.

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

As this is your first post, I thought I should honour you and try to be helpful. I rarely ever hold trades overnight, but here's an example from the 2 March after the making of the high of the year. The 23.6% retracement of the opening rally of the ...

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Cheers Really crazy to stick one's neck out in these conditions

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Indeed. Took a 20876.5 long at 20.40 with stop at breakeven. Keeping it until the close.

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Hello Old Friend 20s charts...that's a bit more noise than I can swallow, but I do see the attraction with the precision they allow. With tick charts you get better precision with less noise Good to see your style of charts again, too ...

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Thank you. I took the exact same trade, but with different reasoning behind: 1) There had been a strong bounce from the same level 10 minutes earlier 2) It was at the 76.4% retracement of the initial spike up...which I was too slow to catch 3) It ...

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow