How Do You Know When To Stay Flat?

[MrPaul]

Yeah it's interesting how you have to "Get" to simple. Somewhat of a regression to the mean. You start out learning with time, price and volume in most cases, expand on that with numerous studies, indicators, psychological studies, newsletters, moon projection analysis :p etc. All to discover that you return to "simple" for anything to be consistently successful.

[rwalkerx]

I'm sure you may of already heard this. I stay flat from noon-2pm. The lunchtime/deadzone hours always have low volume. I've been head faked in this time so much! Occasionally there will be some stealthy selling/buying in these hours but that doesn't offset the amount of loss I've taken by trading these hours.

[torero]

I don't even hang around before noon strikes. I take my opps in the first 2 hours. If nothing happens, then there's tomorrow. After time after that, I'm already exhausted and it's a different market from my trading style so I stay away.