Flag trading the trend

Unless we get some good movement I will wait till 930

Bread and butter play 2b out of box from 42 got +15 took pb to 43 for +30

Noone here today or yesterday maybe I'll stop posting system is there plan trade trade plan

That would be a shame, I really enjoy the thread although I am more of a lurker. It is good seeing somebody who actually makes money trading. You are an inspiration.

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 below



Unfortunately, that's Euros, not ES points lol : this could be why I am eating spuds and pumpkin !

But, seriously, so very few ever post their charts, especially marking trades inc losing trades... but sometimes we lie low for awhile until Spring comes and we start again...

Well cleared 75 ticks today

So far no partial fills with 3 contracts so doing 75 ticks nets 1125 so when market heats up again well you know what that means $$$

We're still here, D. I have had some serious problems with my trade platform in my little project account - lagging quotes, freezing, stop orders not getting filled until the platform "re-connects" and causing larger than planned losses. I have decided to close that account and I will be fund a new small account at one of my other brokers where I have not had any problems.

Also, I don't know where everyone is located, but I'm in the Northeast USA and life is not normal here after the blizzard we had this weekend. The snow fell on Saturday, and schools have yet to re-open here. FOMC meeting starts today, so we may see some choppy price action. That, coupled with the immobilizing blizzard has likely kept traders from trading and market interest a bit low temporarily.

Don't give up on us!

Way to go, D! I had platform freeze issues that kept me on the losing side too long today. Very disappointed. I am not trading my main accounts until after the fed statement tomorrow, so I was just going at it with my little project account. I should have changed brokers when I first started having problems two weeks ago. My two main accounts are with AMP and Interactivebrokers - I've had no issue. But this other broker .... jeesh!

Indeed! I have a buddy lurking here, D. I told him about you and the YM a few weeks or so ago. He's really struggled to become profitable, and he was basically down to his last thousand bucks for trading. He quit IB and went to a low margin broker: $300 day trade margins on the ES and YM. He started trading the YM last week and he has brought his account up nicely. I told him he should start posting here, but he used to post at another forum and he feels he lets his opinions then get the better of him, so he just studies your posts at the end of the day and he keeps his "lips" zipped

His goal is to work it back up to $5K, God-willing, and then do as you do: trade 2 or 3 contracts and sweep the money into his pocket at the end of each week or two.

I wasn't going to mention him, but given your prior post about quitting the thread, I wanted you to know that there is at least one actual, live person with a heart in his chest who has gained new hope for his future because of your simple price action approach. I am sure that in this whole wide world there are others lurking here who also have hop on account of what you are sharing. Keep at it, D. You're paying it forward and God loves you for it.

Once I get a new little account funded and ready to trade, I will post my chart here daily. It will probably take a week or so for the funds to clear if I use an ACH. If the roads clear of sno by tomorrow (my neighborhood is still snowed in) I may get to the bank and wire the $$$ in to get started sooner.

I did download a different platform to try out with them: I'm going to use multi charts. I will probably sim trade it for the next few days, so maybe I'll post some sim charts. We'll see.

Appreciate the kind words. Personally I traded with ib yrs ago imop they stink. Amp is good transact is better a little higher commissions but what's a few cents among friends. So whether it's 3.30 a contract or 3.70 no big deal

By the way I am on east coast to got 3 inches and ice glad I left ny yrs ago</p>

Our local average was 31 inches, and my back door was blocked by an 8 foot drift. I have yet to uncover my mailbox.

wow DD I grew up in ny and moved out 13 yrs ago I know the deal plow driveway and then town plow it back in so you must be close to ny

Grew up in what used to be Pennsylvania farmland north and west of Philadelphia. Then lived in NYC for a number of years. Now I am back in PA, but in the northern mountains.

If anyone out there reading this has access to a 5 minute ES chart, I would like to ask what your chart is showing as the high for the first 5 minute bar nterval of the day. I have two brokers showing me 85.75 as the high of that bar, and another showing 84.25 as the high.

It seems though prices are same when trades charts are not same even with same broker. It might have to do with the owners computer as it receives I have 85.75

Thanks, D. I think it should be 85.75. Every source I've checked with has that figure except for my now ex-broker.

I am currently with AMP, and the high is also 85.75