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Just entered the arena, haven't blown any account simply because I haven't started with real money. I am a wanna be systematic trader using Tradestation and Easy Language. I am sure I will learn a lot here, and hope to give back as much as possible.
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Luciano
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
Hello Mike, thanks for your profile description.
I am a young adult strongly passionate about financial markets in general. I am passionate about math and I wish to trade with a trading system but I am still on the search for an edge.
I have little experience in real time trading and I hope that the forum will help me build my strategy. My primary interest is for FX intraday trading.
Thanks for accepting me into the forum group. I've been trading/paper trading futures for about 2.5 years. I'm in the process of making the change from TOS to NinjaTrader 8 so I'm sure I'll be combing through the forum posts for info and ideas on the platform.
Hello everyone! I have traded for several years. Like most traders, started with stocks, progressed to stock options and am now learning about the futures market. Specifically, now am trading options on commodity futures. I have used TOS for years, but now am looking for a new brokers for this type trading due to the limited commodities available to trade (no availability in IRA account).
Trading: All Eminis: Russell 2000, S&P's, Nasdaq and Dow
Posts: 15 since Sep 2018
Thanks Given: 17
Thanks Received: 12
Hello everyone,
Trading futures has been a passion of mine for the past 25yrs. I started trading when you had to order your charts from a paper charting service and got the charts a week after the market actually happened..lol. We also had to call our orders in to a physical broker and waited sometimes for an hour to get a fill report back.
I've made alot of money and lost alot of money. I'd like to think I am ahead of the curve, but it certainly has been entertaining, painful, joyous and euphoric all rolled into one. I would not have it any other way if I had to do it over. I've traded everything from Options of futures, options on stocks, forex, ETF's, Nadex, stocks and of course, straight futures.
Hopefully I can be an asset to this comunity b/c I feel like futures has given me alot and so I want to give back to the community now. I'm 52yrs old, served in both the Marine Corps and Navy for 6 yrs, went to the crapiest places on earth and some pretty nice places too.
Initially I was taught by a floor trader back in the day when they still had floor traders on the CBOT. I mainly now trade the indicies. I have traded them all, but I think my favorite is the russell 2000. Don't ask me why, I dunno..lol, but I do love that market.
I don't claim to know everything and I know online communities like this can have alot of opinions which is sometimes good and sometimes bad. In the end, the info that is here or anywhere on the net, can help or hurt you, its how you implement the tactics to yor own style of trading. Test them out b4 implementing live and be patient with the markets....I'd say my biggest losses came after I entered the market too early. Of course at the time I thought the timing was good, but I later realized that my lack of patience ended up losing a good trade which would have been profitable if I had just waited a little longer
Anyways thanks for having me and good trading to all
Trading: All Eminis: Russell 2000, S&P's, Nasdaq and Dow
Posts: 15 since Sep 2018
Thanks Given: 17
Thanks Received: 12
Volume trading, if that is what you mean by order flow trading. There was no internet when I first started trading. I ordered charts that the data was a week old and we either followed a ticker tape via a pager ($50 a month mind u) or your broker had a 800 number which you called which would read off the symbol and its price every 15 to 20min.
The floor traders themeselves knew when a runner for lets say for Merril Lynch ran to the pit and looked to buy or sell 1k contracts, yes they knew about that type of "order flow" trading, but no nothing for retail traders and what we have today.
First internet trading I did was in 1998 and the broker that I used was one of the first to have an online trading platform. MF Mann Global or Mann Futures back then was the broker.
