[brownsfan019]

Originally Posted by macdfx »

Another item that traders should check is whether their stops are placed natively on the exchange, or held on the brokers server (or even worst, on your own platform) for queuing.

For instance, that hard stop with OEC isn't actually in the market, on the exchange, but actually on OEC servers.

And never had 1 problem with it.

Good to see you are back to bashing OEC macd, been awhile. Do you and Tams take turns?

[brownsfan019]

Originally Posted by macdfx »

Good luck with that in a fast moving market.

Yep, never an issue here.

But good try.

[Tams]

a good stop will protect you from a wrong entry,
but will not be triggered by noise.

[natedredd10]

Originally Posted by bathrobe »

When I am scalping (1.5 points or less) I use a fixed stop of 1 point and take off 80% of position at 1 point-and let the rest run.

Kind of meaningless without knowing the capital you are swinging...Assuming though you are trading 5 cars to take off 4/80% to leave a contract to run..i think this is -EV because you are not juicing big winners with taking all off at 1 point...Like your trying to build this steady equity curve by deleting the variance of losing vs random huge outlier wins(outlier wins that are juiced on 2 or 3 cars)....That seems to me to be a great strategy to make a break even equity curve.

[brownsfan019]

This thread is a great example of what is going on around here... I post about the topic, no mention of OEC or anything yet MACD wants to chime in and take it off topic.



Just another example of a thread that could be a good one to discuss but the personal attacks continue.

[brownsfan019]

Originally Posted by macdfx »

Another item that traders should check is whether their stops are placed natively on the exchange, or held on the brokers server (or even worst, on your own platform) for queuing.

For instance, that hard stop with OEC isn't actually in the market, on the exchange, but resides instead on OEC servers for execution upon being hit.

Good luck with that in a fast moving market.

Good example of why people that don't use the software should really just keep their comments to something they know - here's how OEC handles stops. Not quite the same picture you are attempting to paint here.

Next time maybe take the time to verify your information being presented here instead of just random guessing.

[bathrobe]

Originally Posted by natedredd10 »

Kind of meaningless without knowing the capital you are swinging...Assuming though you are trading 5 cars to take off 4/80% to leave a contract to run..i think this is -EV because you are not juicing big winners with taking all off at 1 point...Like your trying to build this steady equity curve by deleting the variance of losing vs random huge outlier wins(outlier wins that are juiced on 2 or 3 cars)....That seems to me to be a great strategy to make a break even equity curve.

I momentum scalp around news releases at levels. I should have included that this method is far better than 50% winners, making it profitable for me. I leave the 20% on with a stop loss at the theoretical average +1 tick

[MadMarketScientist]

I've removed a few posts since there was unnecessary name calling -- keep it on topic please. Thanks!

MMS