tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:43:01 +0000How I trade Futures and Forex Online - Information about Brokers, Markets, and how I make money trading.http://www.futures-forex.com/noreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)Blogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-1255795841381536323Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:42:00 +00002009-11-09T12:43:01.295-08:00Uses a 1 hour chart and looks at the price movement overnight, looking for it to stay in the upper third of the range. Then break out to the upside, pull back and buy when the trend continues.According to Newtron Bomb (the name he uses on the forum) the market should continue 65% of the time.Not sure how to get a hourly chart on the currencies, but I am working on it.Looks like I might be able tohttp://www.futures-forex.com/2009/11/breakout-trading-strategy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-8804097403469737231Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:11:00 +00002009-11-09T09:02:31.690-08:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gN-6D8nH0E - this is a really good video about forex break out trading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NCurszleF0 - part 2 forex break out trading. http://www.trading-strategies.info/ - this is the website of the guy who made the videos I have not had a chance to look at it yet, but if there is any other information like the videos then it should be worthhttp://www.futures-forex.com/2009/11/goog-break-out-trading-strategy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-8295043932173054684Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:36:00 +00002009-09-21T19:36:14.988-07:00 Futures Brokers with good rates on the emini S&P   IB's unbundled commissions start at $4.70 RT and drop at specified volume breaks.futuresbroker.com charges $3.80 RT with a choice of 4 free platforms (NinjaTrader, Strategy Runner, QST, or CQG Trader). Transact Futures charges $3.76 RT with a minimum of 274 RTs a month.Lightspeed Trading charges $3.30 RT with no volume minimum and $65.00 a http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/09/futures-brokers-with-low-rates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-5321524496938817000Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:26:00 +00002009-09-02T08:26:20.463-07:00Today is the third day that OpenEcry has been screwed up. On Monday they were just down all day which caused me to miss some great trades. I thought that was the worst, but on Tuesday I shorted 6 eminis and the market turned as soon as I was short, I clicked on the "exit all and cancel all orders" button, nothing happened. I clicked on the market buy button, nothing happened. I clicked a few morehttp://www.futures-forex.com/2009/09/wwwopenecrycom-major-problems.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-5176968565826920946Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:02:00 +00002009-08-25T14:02:40.013-07:00My 2 minute reverse trade has been working good, made $200 yesterday off the open and $65 today, live trading.Changed it a little but not much. Before I would wait 2 minutes off the open then place a trade in the opposite direction to where the market was from the open.So after 2 minutes if the bar was red, I would buy, if the bar was green, I would sell.Now I wait for the 2nd 2 minute bar to http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/my-2-minute-reverse-es-trade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-8015240069231462991Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:21:00 +00002009-08-22T11:22:01.845-07:00I remember sitting next to a top trader he almost always made $5000 off the stock markets first half hour, and I was trying to copy his trades, which wasn't working, he was trying as hard as he could to help me, but it just wasn't taking. On this particular trade I was sitting there wondering what the heck was going on and I got out with a small loss he ended up making a small profit on the http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/difference-between-profitable-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-202213203679607032Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:34:00 +00002009-08-22T08:34:42.086-07:00   To succeed as a trader you need only one quality.   PERSEVERANCE. http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/how-to-succeed-as-trader.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-6463445972307583869Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:05:00 +00002009-08-21T20:06:46.486-07:00 ((((( Forex & Stocks Books ))))) The art of warTrading Champions Share Their Keys To Top Trading Profits.rar‏Betting.pdf‏Whats In Your Head.pdf‏turtles-matter.pdf‏Van Tharp - Stop Worrying Yourself out of Profits.pdf‏Secrets of Todays Top Traders.pdf‏Prospect Theory.pdf‏Tom Peters - 100Ways.pdf‏RALEM NAFSAK AL TAFKIR.txt‏Napoleon Hill - Think & Grow Rich.pdf‏AsAManThinketh.pdf‏ 7 http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/forex-stocks-books-art-of-war-trading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-5887547481912090383Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:48:00 +00002009-08-14T08:48:59.121-07:00Got out of 1st hook with a loss, then the market ran in my direction.2nd hook, news came out and I got in 2.5 points late, still went in my direction, and I could have held much longer than I did.was up some money and missed the 3rd hook because I was typing in the stock chat room.4th hook, lots of support, and it was just bouncing off it, so I was waiting then a big order broke through fast and http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/emini-trading-hooks-up-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-325074128755936222Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:27:00 +00002009-08-12T14:27:31.569-07:00My tight stops are killing me on days that the market runs in one direction. This is the 2nd or 3rd day when the market moves straight up or down off the open and I have all losing trades. Looking at the chart today it almost looks impossible to buy 4 times and lose money, but that's what I did.On the slow days the short stops save me money, on days like today they cost me a lot.- - -ran across http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/tight-stops-are-hurting-profits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-4554214709586677668Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:26:00 +00002009-08-11T11:26:58.585-07:00Another very bad day, I over traded today, was trying something new again. Very disseminated that my hook trades have not been working very well the last few trading sessions. So I decided to blow $500 for what reason I am not really sure, but was looking at the afternoon volume trades, watched 4 of them work perfectly and then I decided to trade one, of course it went against me, then added to http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/very-bad-day-trading-emini-need-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-2857508002044491945Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:52:00 +00002009-08-08T13:06:05.324-07:00I got a new computer because my old computer could not run all the software from trying to trade the Emini and stocks. I trade the Emini for the first hour and then stocks the rest of the day. The new computer is turning out to be a lot more work than I ever thought it would. Installing all the software and getting everything configured right is really taking a lot of time.today my free host http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/need-new-free-host-for-my-site.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-540023321807074569Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:48:00 +00002009-08-08T12:48:49.118-07:00I have to start keeping better notes, I am just terrible at it though.Friday I traded the 2 minute reverse the second time and it was successful for 1.25 points.I really need to start keeping stats on this trade because it seems to work pretty good.I also changed my stop to a trailing stop, it follows 1.25 behind the market. This saved me a point yesterday, got stopped out twice and only lost http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/new-trailing-stop-worked-nice-to-start.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-4259443539994168298Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:20:00 +00002009-08-06T15:20:35.927-07:00Emini 4 trades all 4 were goodI need to look into a trailing stop loss, because if the market moves a point in my direction then I don't want to let it go 2 points against me and get me out with a 1 point loss, and this happens to me.If the market moves in my direction even a half point I want to start moving my stop down and take a smaller loss.Anyway, today was a better day for me, I had 2 goodhttp://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/emini-4-trades-all-4-were-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-3457257759296970616Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:09:00 +00002009-08-06T21:27:26.355-07:00Today has probably been the most disappointing day since I started trading the hooks.There were 4 good setups and I traded all 4. The market was dropping and I went short on all 4 and lost money on all 4 trades.It almost does not seem possible that the market could drop so much and I could short it 4 times and lose money, but that's the drawback to using a one point stop. It almost doesn't matterhttp://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/my-worst-day-trading-emini.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-4651646287867375827Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:45:00 +00002009-08-02T20:46:00.167-07:00bought the first hook, went up for a total of +3.5 points. made +1.0second hook stopped out first then went up 1.00third hook was going down on an up day but right after the 30 minute mark so I took it, made +1.00 went +6.75some big movers today.still not sure how to keep track of these trades and also keep track of how much I could have made with different stops and limit orders.what would be http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/08/es-emini-futures-trades-7-31-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-689323358079799065Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:47:00 +00002009-07-30T15:47:09.512-07:00Closed my account with www.Livewithoscar.com because I was losing too much money.and because the trading hours were too much for me.I had started out thinking that I could just wake up in the middle of the night and take a trade, the problem is once in the trade sometimes Oscar will send alerts every hour telling you things are going ok, or nibble some more, or sell half, or sometimes just I willhttp://www.futures-forex.com/2009/07/livewithoscarcom-alert-service-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-7455280065879622584Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:36:00 +00002009-07-18T22:36:22.564-07:00http://eminiplayer.blogspot.com/2009/06/learning-to-become-successful-trader.html - really good post on what it takes to be profitable in the markets. Bill "Muddy" Milsted � google searched this name and came up with this chat room http://mysite.verizon.net/resynsu8/greenonthescreen/ - reading one of the logs it looks identical to this chat room - http://www.investorsunderground.com/ not http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/07/searching-google-for-penny-stock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-4306407390674908312Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:21:00 +00002009-06-25T13:12:06.025-07:00Today I was trying to see if how long just over 1000 contracts would last when people started selling, they lasted a fraction of a second. It looked like one large order took them all out. so my strategy of waiting to see if they would hold or not would have cost me another quarter of a point trading the ES today.I would still like some kind of database where I could track all the different http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/06/paper-trading-emini-s.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-3085877053536482655Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:15:00 +00002009-06-14T15:15:48.765-07:00Not sure this is worth it or not, but I still can not get wblogger to post a title to any posts.So my work around is this...1. create post and email it to blogger with title.2. open up wblogger and pull up post with title to make edits.This is twice the work for each post so I am not sure I want to keep doing that, but it is the only solution I can come up with at the moment.hopefully this http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/06/wblogger-title-problem-quick-fix.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-8162007124135850081Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:16:00 +00002009-06-14T15:08:37.565-07:00I just installed the desktop software from wblogger.comI don't know why they call it w.blogger because w.blogger.com is not a valid website, and www.w.blogger.com is not a good website either.testing out the new blockquote to see how it works.this is my first post, but so far I really like this little program it seems to do everything I was hoping it would.now I am going to try and create an http://www.futures-forex.com/.html.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-3257625077214779930Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:59:00 +00002009-06-03T20:59:14.161-07:00Was looking on www.download.com and ran across this program:http://download.cnet.com/TradeLogger/3000-2057_4-10743009.html - trade logger TradeLogger 2.3Publisher's description of TradeLoggerFrom Keyframe Multimedia:TradeLogger is a free tool for use by stock, options and futures traders which helps you save thousands of dollars in your equity. TradeLogger logs all of your financial trades and http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/06/market-logging-software.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-276358702924022056Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:33:00 +00002009-06-02T19:33:03.692-07:00I have been looking at http://timothysykes.com/ and it kind of reminds me of many of the HYIP investment programs, but these guys are running it through the real stock exchanges and doing the same thing, but with a much much shorter time frame. It looks like they shoot for around 3 days.anyway, it's all very interesting and if I could make some money with it using stock account, I would do it in http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/06/switch-to-penny-stocks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-5092827257610378996Sat, 30 May 2009 04:52:00 +00002009-05-29T21:52:06.314-07:00 The Worlds most Successful Trader -Paul Rotter - aka "the Eurex Flipper"He trades between 200-300,000 round turns daily using the X_Trader platform, and clearing through GNI Touch.q: what equipment do you use? a: MD-trader from TT, Reuters, Bloomberg, CQG and a USD-squawkbox.q: why a USD-squawk box?a: i use it because �/$ had some effects on the interest rates over the last couple of months. http://www.futures-forex.com/2009/05/worlds-most-successful-trade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15875599.post-3517733477548453517Wed, 27 May 2009 05:20:00 +00002009-05-26T22:20:34.239-07:00Narrow Range Breakout Forex Trading SystemSmall losses and BIG WINS are key to this system's successYou will learn a low risk, high probability Forex Trading System that finds huge wins while risking very little - the KEY to its success There are many ways to trade the Foreign currency market. The key behind any profitable forex trading system is having small losses, risking no more than 2-3% ofhttp://www.futures-forex.com/2009/05/narrow-range-breakout-forex-trading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gordon Gekko)0