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Hey Darryl - good to see you posting again. Harold has some great stuff - can highly recommend it.

Interesting thread you have here, I enjoy the video's aswell. I'm still a rookie but figuered trading trend pullbacks is a viable way forward. Thanks for sharing your experience!

I put on 2 trades this morning then my
internet went down

thanks Harold great work .. first one didn't connect for me but got second one which didn't connect on your chart

So I got 30 on mine and you got 30 on yours bottom line a winning day

Hey Harold, Welcome back home....You have been seriously missed...When you were not around, we lost the other great contributors that we learn from also such as J-trade, Erasmus and several others that have such good input, with the right questions,answers, and views...Thanks to all of you too..Great work....Loving the videos as usual...

Thanks,Don

Long time no see don trading has never been this good

Hi Harold - Looks like the Borg Family has returned.
Have you sorted out a weekend for a webinar. From the following you have got so far I think it may be a big session. Looking forward to it whenever it is.
cheers.

Maybe next Sunday I will do webninar

I am planning on doing webinar on Sunday January 29 at 3pm est let me know if that's a good time all are welcome

Your videos are pure gold. Thanks. Good for me, but I can't promise. But I think I'll be able to.

Glad to see ya back. I will be attending the webinar.
Thank you.

good for Kiwis Harold - see you there.

I will post link here the week before webinar

You pick the time and I will be there....This looks like your greatest tweak yet..

I just started to follow this thread today and I'll be there any time, any day.

I was trading on Demo and I noticed that if I click Buy Bid and it enters a limit order it take a while to get filled but if I click buy market it fills instantly. Why is that?

Also on high volume futures like NQ and CL and NG are market orders usually filled instantly at or very close to the price?

If you transmit a Buy Limit order at the Ask price (the higher of the two prices 52.80 in my screenshot) you should be filled immediately, as long as the price does not go up before your order hits the exchange. If you transmit the same order at the Bid price (the lower of the two, 52.79), you will not be filled. But a Market Order fills you at Market : Ask price for a Buy, Bid price for a Sell, whatever they happen to be at the time your order reaches the exchange.

In liquid markets during daytime session(s), you will normally be filled at the Bid or Ask, unless it's very volatile around the Open (why H does not trade the first 5 mins of NQ) or major news, when you can get slippage (which itself can be small - say an extra tick or two- or MUCH larger, in the event of a market shock).

Essential to study Order types and the significance of "spread" - typically only 1 tick on liquid futures during the day session - before trading Live. Assimilate information and think about it until it is clear in your own head. LOTS of practice.

It can be confusing : my way of remembering which is the Bid and Ask (also known as the Offer) was : Bid is below, Ask is above.

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Edit : & btw, I got quite confused just typing this all out LOL

Todays price action began a little choppy and then.....