To Bank … or not to Bank?
First apologies to Shakespeare for blatantly abusing one of his quotes. However, the topic of setting a bank for your trades is one that is widely discussed and I thought it was a nice link! What is a bank point? When you are running multi-contract trades you obviously have…
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Trading Micro E-minis …… think like a Football coach!
Back in May of this year the CME Group launched micro E-mini contracts for 4 major indices: Nasdaq100, Dow Jones 30, S&P500 and the Russell 2000. The original E-mini was brought out back in the late 1990s so our view on chatting with colleagues in the market, including our friends…
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Beyond the Trades Interview – Mark Sear
Mark Sear, Inteligex Co-Founder and CTO Beyond the Trades Interview QUESTION – Thank you for taking the time to participate in the Q & A session. Before we start in detail. Would you like to share with everyone who may not know, who you are, what you do, where you…
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What Traders can learn from NYC Cab Drivers
We’re traders, we’re our own boss, we decide when we trade and when we don’t. We may trade 8 hours a day because we think of it as a job. We may trade until we hit a certain profit as we have a goal we want to achieve. We…
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Inteligex Algorithms revolutionize Technical Analysis
As a trader you’ve no doubt done your technical analysis. You’ve put in the hard yards poring over charts, identified support and resistance, set up indicators and charting tools to help you see those repeating patterns and used this information to help you trade. We all know it’s important to…
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What Are Your Trading Goals?
What Are Your Trading Goals? When I am having a trading discussion with someone, the topic eventually comes up – What are your goals? I want to make money! A common goal for a lot of people is – I want to make a certain amount of dollars per day.…
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I Just Needed To Get Out Of The Way!
I Just Needed To Get Out Of The Way! So, if you have read my last 2 posts, I presented my thought process (hopefully logically) about why I chose to go with automated trading and specifically, Inteligex. So, you would think that when I turned it on, I trusted the…
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Trust The Math You Must!
Trust the math you must! The next step In my last post, I talked about why I decided to go with an automated system. The next step in my research was to decide on which automation company. There are lots of options out there, but once you start looking, the…
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Manual vs Auto Trading
Manual vs auto trading For me, the choice to move to an automated system was relatively easy; you may be considering it now. Let me share my thought process… The Emotional Element I know I have trouble sometimes not wanting to take another trade if the last one lost because…
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