Chat with Joe Ross

Chat log from: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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joel_regen Howdy
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amathevs21 Hi everybody
joel_regen Yo.
amathevs21 Hi Joe
JoeRoss Hi to everyone
amathevs21 Hi
JoeRoss Did y'all make money today?
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joel_regen I got paid...but not for trading.
amathevs21 Yes!
JoeRoss Big day and big week!
BigBlueSky Good evening everybody.
amathevs21 Yes, i agree with that.
JoeRoss I expected nothing less than a 50 basis point cut in interest rates, and that's what we got.
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amathevs21 Hi bigbluesky
JoeRoss Once the GDP report was in, it was a must for the FED to lower by that much.
JoeRoss I expect another cut next month.
JoeRoss I believe they will cut until they reach at least 2%.
JoeRoss Hi Blue.
amathevs21 Seems FED will more cut rates again.
joel_regen Ef we nuked the Fed...they wouldn't have interest.
joel_regen But, I digress.
joel_regen So is Ron Paul!
JoeRoss It's time to talk trading.
elias Ok.
elias Good evening everybody.
JoeRoss Anyone see any good trades out there?
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JoeRoss Hi elias
elias Hi Joe its a pleasure.
JoeRoss Hi doug.
JoeRoss Hi Susan.
SusanL Hey Joe
amathevs21 Hi SusanL.
SusanL Hi Amathevs21.
JoeRoss Where is everyone tonight?
SusanL ?? Not yet awake -- what is the big news for today?
JoeRoss News: GDP came in at 1/2 of what was expected.
JoeRoss FED cut interest rates by 1/2 percent.
JoeRoss Bond market fooled everyone by dropping like a rock first on profit taking but right now it has regained about 1/2 of the drop.
SusanL Does that effect the Easy Bond Method or the Bond Blaster Method?
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JoeRoss Hi eye.
SusanL Hi eyedvm, if you want to see what was communicated before you popped in, please go to the Menu and click Action and then Recent Room History...
JoeRoss Susan: Yes it did. Easy Bonds had a winner today. Short the bonds.
amathevs21 Hello eyedvm.
eyedvm Hello.
SusanL Good for all Easy Bond Traders :-)
joel_regen How 'bout bond blaster?
elias Not for me.
JoeRoss joel: No trade for Bond Blaster. It was neutral.
JoeRoss elias: What happened?
amathevs21 I'm a currencies trader.
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elias Sorry I don´t know so much about Bond Blaster.
amathevs21 hello bert
SusanL Which currencies are you trading amathevs21???
amathevs21 EUR/JPY
bert Hello everyone...sorry about being late.
JoeRoss amathevs: Me too. I was short 25 euro Puts, and now they are practically guaranteed to finish worthless :-)
amathevs21 No problem bert, my buddy.
SusanL Elias, do you own any of those methods at all? Either Easy Bond Method or Bond Blaster Method??
JoeRoss Hi bert.
bert Hi Joe.
amathevs21 Thanks a lot Joe.
SusanL Thanks amathevs21.
SusanL Are you a profitable Currency Trader??
amathevs21 Thanks susanL
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elias No Susan.
amathevs21 Yes.
JoeRoss Hi acman.
amathevs21 Hi acman.
SusanL Then congratulations amathevs2.
elias I work with the wheat spread.
amathevs21 Thanks susanL.
SusanL Joe also has a currency method with 4 different currencies that are trades, Curry Blend right Joe? Which currencies are included Joe??
joel_regen Quite a mix of markets.
acman Hi y'all.
amathevs21 Hi Acman.
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JoeRoss Susan: Yen, euro, pound, franc
SusanL Hi Martin, good to have you.
joel_regen Anyone daytrading the ES (s&p emini)?
SusanL Right Joe, thanks!
acman I am doing the ER-YM spread as usual. doing well again.
JoeRoss amathevs: EUR/JPY should have been a winner today, right?
amathevs21 Yes Joe, Thanks a lot.
amathevs21 But sometimes i have a losing trade, too.
amathevs21 But yesterday i had a win.
JoeRoss Wins are good :-)
amathevs21 I agree with that Joe.
amathevs21 Thank a lot Joe.
JoeRoss I just put up that EUR/JPY SPREAD, not so good.
amathevs21 IC
acman amat: are you doing 2 contracts or one.
amathevs21 I just trade 1 contract each time i enter a trade.
JoeRoss EUR/JPY: Down for the day, up at 1AM until 10AM, then not much until 2PM.
amathevs21 IC Joe
amathevs21 Joe, do you have advice for me which spread for the currencies will be good for me to trade?
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amathevs21 Hello tradecraze.
acman


Hard to trade with one, no control if it moves in your direction. I found it best to take profits quickly on one, then let second ride for real profit. Otherwise you are out and miss main move.
TradeCraze Hello.
amathevs21 Thanks a lot acman.
JoeRoss amat: Sometimes one is good and another time it is better to change. Today EUR/USD would have been great.
amathevs21 IC Joe.
JoeRoss Or even just euro in the futures.
amathevs21 IC
JoeRoss You can't get married to any one market, because they all change.
JoeRoss Hi Craze
amathevs21 IC Joe
TradeCraze Today after the market settled down it was perfect trading on the short side in the emini S&P.
TradeCraze After the FOMC announcement.
joel_regen TradeCraze: what time frame did you trade in?
TradeCraze btw, I finally am understanding the law of charts! I am very excited about that fact.
TradeCraze I had a 300 tic bar chart and a 3 min chart up.
joel_regen Me too.
joel_regen TLOC rules.
joel_regen Interesting.
joel_regen Major signals from 3 minute?
TradeCraze Still learning but it was simply beautiful today going short watching the market hit Rh after Rh and continuing to move down.
joel_regen Sweet. wish I could have seen it...(day job).
joel_regen I'll borrow the data from a friend and look at it later.
joel_regen NT 6
joel_regen Did you trade off the 300 tick and use the 3 minute to filter for trend?
joel_regen Oh well...congrats.
joel_regen :-)
joel_regen Got the flu today.
TradeCraze I traded the BO off the #3 point I was using the 300 tic chart for confirmation ... but like I said I am still learning and trying to apply what JR teaches. I am simply a student of the market.
TradeCraze Still a very long way to go.
SusanL :-)
joel_regen Excellent.
joel_regen I'm reading the "Day Trading" book along with 'Trading the Ross Hook'.
joel_regen It's like a breath of fresh air after all the other BS I've seen.
joel_regen I can't wait to trade it when I can quit my day job.
TradeCraze I really like the what JR says about "Trade what you see." But it is also the toughest thing to do ... not to trade what you think but trade what you are seeing.
joel_regen There's a lot of meat there for sure...it will take time to learn...paper trade it or do small contract set.
joel_regen I love the TTE...if you can leverage the momentum (thrust) before the hook, you can get paid to trade. Sweet.
bert Trying to give up making predictions is one of the toughest things to do.
JoeRoss It takes discipline.
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JoeRoss Hi netwonc
TradeCraze A lot of the things that I have placed into my trading previous to JR ... it's nice to know there is a Law as he talks about it. For example I never thought about Ledges the way JR talks about it ... but I understand what he is saying it's like a light came on ... simply amazing.
netwonc Hi Joe., sorry I am late...have I missed much?
bert Joe, you had a piece on the forum the other day about how you worked on not making predictions. I should have printed it out then, so now I've got to find it again.
joel_regen Finding where to trade a breakout of consolidation is pretty tricky.
JoeRoss netwonc: You can read what has happened under Action----> Recent History, or read the chat log on Friday.
joel_regen I notice that Joe uses previous days' price action to help with this.
netwonc k...thanks
JoeRoss netwonc: We yakked a bit about the FED move today, and a bit about some of the markets.
TradeCraze Personally, I have found that Genesis Trade Navigator and using Joe Ross library has helped me along with really studying the TLOC.
joel_regen Anyone have any thoughts about Ninja Trader versus other platforms?
joel_regen I haven't used any others for futures.
JoeRoss bert: Good luck in finding it :D
JoeRoss I make all kinds of posts there, but don't remember what I posted where :-D
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bert I hope the forum has a good search engine :-)
JoeRoss Hi maple.
joel_regen Is it possible to trade only calendar spreads (to benefit from reduced margin) until your account is larger?
acman After the announcement gold moved but didn't take out yesterdays high. Is this a top on gold?
joel_regen Or does that slim down your choices too much?
joel_regen What is gold at now?
joel_regen I haven't checked since it was at 862.
JoeRoss acman: My charts all show gold making a new high, but it finished rather weakly. and tonight it is not doing much.
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JoeRoss It hit 936.80 today.
Martin




Joe have you ever seen anything like the March KC - Mini wheat spread, it has been vertical for the past 7 weeks, almost unbelievable. Or how about the July meal - bean spread. Are any of these worth looking at for a possible turn the other way? Extreme Volatility!
joel_regen Yikes.
acman Feb is around 923 now. Gold.
JoeRoss Right now it is at 923.30. Sooner or later we are going to get a big correction and when we do I'm buying more.
joel_regen I had a bunch at 670...sold it at 820 or so...but it was digital gold.
acman What is a good buying price?
joel_regen Too much commission.
TradeCraze








When I was soul searching, I was reading a biography on Robert E. Lee, he said this to his son Custis, "Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you... All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage. (In other words, "TRADE WHAT YOU SEE NOT WHAT YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN."
JoeRoss Martin: Eventually, they have to turn and go the other way. They may be historically way out of line with normal.
joel_regen Brings up a good question..
joel_regen How easily is the gold market manipulated?
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joel_regen As in dumping.
JoeRoss acman: Good question. We have to see how far back it moves. Maybe to 750 ::wacko
Mapletrader Hi Joe.
JoeRoss Hi maple
Mapletrader Trouble logging in--borrowed lap top.
JoeRoss joel: The gold market is heavily manipulated by the banks, especially the Central Banks.
JoeRoss They are deathly afraid of rising gold prices.
Mapletrader That would be a nice place to jump in.
joel_regen As I would suspect...the Fed was originally instigated to battle capital formation (saving by businesses). that cut in on their business (lending at interest).
sb123



joe in your seasonal spread book you mention using Bollinger bands and RSI as filters for spreads...where can one find charting software that can do all this...most online do one or the other...any for free online??
Mapletrader 750.
joel_regen stockcharts.com
bert joel, do they do futures?
sb123 joel..they do commodity charts??
JoeRoss


sb123: All of the software I've seen will do both BBs and RSI. BB is an overlay and RSI charts below prices. I don't know where you can get one for free that does both.
sb123 Yeah...but for spreads some will not do RSI.
joel_regen http://futures.tradingcharts.com/
sb123 I've been to futuresource as recommended by some people here.
joel_regen http://futures.tradingcharts.com/javachart/XC/38
JoeRoss Try Man Financial. They have pretty decent free charts.
Mapletrader Is there a place to get free spread charts?
JoeRoss FutureSource is the other one I would say to try.
joel_regen Wow, corn is taking off.
JoeRoss maple: Both Man Financial and FutureSource have free spread charts.
Mapletrader Thanks--does one need an open funded account?
sb123 I must be missing it at futuresource...enrolled and still can only get daily single future charts...no spreads.
BigBlueSky http://britefutures.com/quotes/spreads.aspx
sb123 Yeah brite offers only RSI and Stoch for spreads...
sb123 Brite is pretty simple to get around in i must admit.
JoeRoss I've not seen FutureSource, but Andy sends everyone there for free spread charts. I do know you can get great ones at Man Financial.
sb123 You...start your own spread chart service...
JoeRoss http://www.manfutures.com/resources/getquotes.cfm?page=cspread ==>Trader Support==>Quotes and Charts==>Spread Charts
Mapletrader It would be great if these links can survive the archival process.
sb123 AD/Cd spread goes from 800-$1000 per day...from high to low...does this often...wish could find way to take some of that action...
sb123 Chk it out...
sb123 Well, almost thru for the night...
joel_regen Yup.
JoeRoss Bert: I did a search for "predictions" but didn't find anything on the forum.
JoeRoss Any other words you can remember?
bert Joe, I was gonna try the very same word... ya beat me to it.
JoeRoss Nothing for prediction either.
bert I can't remember which group it would be in. I won't make that mistake again.
JoeRoss It's that time again.
JoeRoss I have to leave. Lots to do . I have to write Chart Scan.
JoeRoss Bye until next week.
joel_regen Bye joe.
JoeRoss Thanks for coming.
BigBlueSky Bye Joe.
amathevs21 OK Joe, nice to meet you & thank for your advice to me.
JoeRoss I enjoyed all the work done by joel and craze. Saved me from typing
amathevs21 Thanks Acman.
joel_regen np.
bert G'night Joe and thank you.
amathevs21 Thanks everbody.
amathevs21 Nice to meet you all.
joel_regen Wish you well .... blessings to all.
amathevs21 Good night Joe.
amathevs21 See you next week.
JoeRoss Ciao.
JoeRoss Adios.
amathevs21 CIAO.
JoeRoss Servus.
amathevs21 Bye ::smile
TradeCraze Bye.
JoeRoss Adieu
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netwonc Thanks guys, see you all next time,,,,,,
JoeRoss gm you are late.
JoeRoss Chat began 1 hour ago
JoeRoss Try us next week.
gm Oh,
amathevs21 GOD Bless you Joe
gm Sorry, try to catch it next time.
amathevs21 & GOD Bless you all My friends
JoeRoss Thanks amat.
acman Bye everyone.
amathevs21 You're welcome
JoeRoss gm: one hour earlier.
amathevs21 Bye Acman
amathevs21 See you all next week.
acman Good luck trading amathes.
amathevs21 Thanks acman
acman Will be on cruise next week.
amathevs21 OK
amathevs21 See you acman.
amathevs21 Bye.
gm By the way, what Joe Ross talk here?
amathevs21 GOD Bless you all.
gm Any one can tell a little?
amathevs21 About cutting rates by the FED.
amathevs21 sri FED Fund cut rates.
gm Oh, not about trading?
gm Spreads?
amathevs21 Trading of course
TradeCraze You can always catch it in the archive off the website.
Mapletrader good night Joe. Thanks for all your writing.
amathevs21 OK Bye
gm Oh, thanks,
amathevs21 By gm
gm Bye,
joel_regen Ciao
joel_regen Shalom
TradeCraze Good night

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