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Forum: Traders Hideout December 11th, 2016, 05:26 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,077
Posted By e4williams
market to equity ratio

I think that this is probably the most important question one can ask at the onset of a trading career. I am wrestling with this concept as well.

What I find bothersome as the margin to equity...
Forum: Traders Hideout December 11th, 2016, 05:17 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,884
Posted By e4williams
market to equity ratio

I think that this is probably the most important question one can ask at the onset of a trading career. I am wrestling with this concept as well.

What I find bothersome as the margin to equity...
Forum: Traders Hideout June 25th, 2015, 07:33 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 7,620
Posted By e4williams
Outgrow a forum

As a wise old owl said,

Lick it once, lick it twice, and there's it's gone.

Then, time to start chewing that sweet chocolate inside.
Forum: Commodities June 25th, 2015, 02:01 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,824
Posted By e4williams
MiNY and Micro

There is a thread here that discusses this. Search e micro Gold and you should be able to find it. I learned from that board to stay away from the MiNY, too thinly traded. However, the e micro...
Forum: Traders Hideout June 25th, 2015, 01:37 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,365
Posted By e4williams
another insturment

I like Gold, /GC. Not the roller coaster that the ES is. Been in a choppy sideways movement for weeks now however I think that Gold is easier to trade than the ES or Crude oil.

Gold moves slower...
Forum: ThinkOrSwim June 25th, 2015, 12:59 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 7,225
Posted By e4williams
grey bars

That is if he is on equities. If you are trading futures go to the little wrench tab to the left of the time frame button, hit on futures and uncheck highlight extended hours.

You can use that...
Forum: Traders Hideout June 6th, 2015, 10:05 AM
Replies: 541
Views: 357,217
Posted By e4williams
Opening range trading

There might value to OR trading,

However, OR trading is related to opening, in the pit.

Have you considered trusting another opening range. Perhaps, an hour before the open. That's when the...
Forum: Commodities May 5th, 2015, 02:50 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,245
Posted By e4williams
Gold Intraday trading

I have found no thread for Gold intraday traders,
So I'll try to start one.

I find observation of price action alone to be of utmost importance. Observation of behavior.
Good technical analysis...
Forum: TradeStation May 5th, 2015, 02:21 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 4,342
Posted By e4williams
An Important Question

I would like to expand upon what this person has asked. I find this to be a very relevant and important question.

This is also something that has bothered me for some time.

He is trying to...
Forum: TradeStation May 5th, 2015, 07:12 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 4,342
Posted By e4williams
easier way

There might be a much easier way to do this.
I have played around a bit with this myself but differently.

I may not be correct with my figures but for example.

a 50 ma on an hourly chart would...
Forum: Traders Hideout April 19th, 2015, 08:30 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 34,307
Posted By e4williams
4 K Monitor

I would like to pull up more chart if I am on a longer time period chart without having to tab across. I find that I can easily lose perspective by tabbing across.

Do the 4 K monitors give you...
Forum: Emini and Emicro Index April 13th, 2015, 12:27 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 4,647
Posted By e4williams
Price bar on Soybeans 3/31/15 11:00 AM

Regarding that one price bar on Soybeans, 3/31/15 11:00 AM.

Yes, I have since found out that this one bar was due to a report out, and had I had an actual trade rather than a paper trade, my...
Forum: Traders Hideout April 5th, 2015, 11:16 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 7,111
Posted By e4williams
Calculator for futures options

Hopefully, it doesn't have to be a grey area. I am sure it's an understandable area if you research it enough. You have leverage upon leverage. On the ES you still make 50 dollars a point with an...
Forum: Emini and Emicro Index April 5th, 2015, 10:05 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 4,647
Posted By e4williams
Trading other than the ES

If you take a look at Soybeans ZS at 3/31/15 12:00 P.M. That one bar, for ever more should tell you how dangerous Soybeans are. Are Soybeans that illiquid a commodity to produce that one bar? That...
Forum: Traders Hideout April 1st, 2015, 04:29 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,527
Posted By e4williams
Three nuns and a farmer

Ok, so let's say you have three nuns and a farmer/ Don't worry about the nuns too much, they are all working on their candlesticks.

Or forty acres and a nun. Maybe a horse and a mule. If you...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 26th, 2015, 05:40 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,535
Posted By e4williams
Substiting intraday trading for a stop AS AN EXERCISE

http://tos.mx/NjSQW9

By the way, I watched the webinar twice and took vigorous enough notes on this. The Quantitative Discretionary Trader w/Adam Grimes. Knowing me, I'll probably complete his...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 26th, 2015, 07:07 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 8,234
Posted By e4williams
Re: Webinar

Sending out a thanks for hosting these webinars and all the time you put into the board.

I've already watched it twice and have taken notes on it. Makes me feel like I've back in college again...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 25th, 2015, 06:29 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 3,084
Posted By e4williams
Inter market relationships

Unfortunately, we are in world where globalization has taken hand. Say, yah, about for 12 or 13 years ago.
This, unfortunately, has to be taken into account.
There are neural networks working...
Forum: Platforms and Indicators March 25th, 2015, 05:39 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,544
Posted By e4williams
Stochastics - my friend

Relying upon the slow Stochastic as a secondary indicator.

Everyone gets so complicated on this board.

Any comments as to trader's usage of the slow stochastic.

Seems to be five major...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 25th, 2015, 02:14 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 8,234
Posted By e4williams
No, offence to you either, but I am not sure you...

No, offence to you either, but I am not sure you didn't throw the baby out with the bath water five years ago with regards to moving averages.

Right now I am keeping the baby in the bath water,...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 25th, 2015, 11:27 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 8,234
Posted By e4williams
18 SMA 50 SMA crossover

I will disagree with you here. You are right on a daily, 12 hour or 8 hour chart when the instrument crosses the fifty you are too late.

But I will challenge you as to calling entry using the...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 25th, 2015, 11:15 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 5,546
Posted By e4williams
Multiple screens for larger chart

Perfect.

I think four screens would do a nice job.
Forum: Traders Hideout March 24th, 2015, 08:37 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 5,546
Posted By e4williams
5 minute chart 15 minute chart

A question to all the math geniuses out there and all the computer programming whizzes out there. Let's say that I want to pull up a 5 minute chart or a 15 minute chart. But I want to see this...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 24th, 2015, 06:36 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 8,234
Posted By e4williams
9 and 18 Ma's RE: futures

No, you got me, entirely wrong here. I am not talking about entry. And yet, at the same time, I am talking about entry. I am talking about how the commodity behaves.
Understanding how the...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 24th, 2015, 06:54 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 8,234
Posted By e4williams
9 and 18 SMA's - Commodities trading

Anyone out there taking note of the nine and eighteen day Simple Moving Averages with regards to commodities trading?

I am currently long in Soybeans.

I would love to engage in any...
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