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Old 05-04-2008, 12:54 PM
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Re: Index & Currency futures- Re: Question About Time & Sales

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I don't like talking about specifics, but this myth about needing complex tools to earn good money is just complete bullshit. Maybe people assume that successful traders "out there" all use hi-tech tools. All of the people in my office who earn 6 -7 figures a year have the most simple trading setup you could imagine, just using a price ladder & basic charts with no indicators. Just bars/candles and volume.
It is my guess that traders from your office don't really trade the heavy-volume instruments, whether in stocks or futures. It is my opinion that if you trade an index futures market such as the ES like many of us do, you would need a little more than a T&S and a simple chart. In this market, we have a multitudes of program tradings, arbitrage activities, and automated black box systems that would automatically read the T%S data and execute at blinding speed.
Tell me if Im wrong.

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