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I am a new member. Trading is new for me. I read Thor's book with great interest and the strategies he describes totally speak to me. I initially paid for DAS Trader Pro simulator. My DAS subscription ended. NinjaTrader has some nice features that are not available in DAS Trader Pro, so I opened an account. After the 14-day trial I realized that NinjaTrader does not allow Canadians to open paid accounts. Any other country would work, but Canada. They told me they were working on it and advised me to check every week. I phoned ThinkOrSwim and they told me that with a Canadian address I was not able to open an account either. I had an idea that maybe to start I could just use Bookmap. I can set it up so that it also displays candle sticks. The problem is that Bookmap does not have the Camarilla pivots study. I heard that some people used Sierra Charts. I checked that Sierra Charts do have Camarilla points (which is great), but only up to the 5th levels. I guess I could live with that, but they don't provide phone support. I will have to dig through their documentation and figure out what works and what doesn't. I will do it, because I don't have a better idea at the moment. Question: If you are trading futures from Canada and use Camarilla pivot points and Bookmap, and use a platform that is more cost effective than DAS Trader Pro, please let me know. My goal is to have a setup I can use to check if I understood the strategies, can execute them correctly in a simulator and am consistently profitable. When I achieve that I can use a different setup to trade with real money (maybe by that time NinjaTrader will be available for Canadians. Please note that they said it would be available only for customers from Ontario [figure out why?]. I am in Ontario, so I guess lucky for me) I really like NinjaTrader and the possibility to set a stop when the price reaches a moving average. As far as I know, one is not able to do it in DAS. Thank you!

Today someone shared this hotkey code: CXL ALLSYMB;StopPrice=Price;StopPrice=StopPrice*0.50;StopPrice=Round1;StopPrice=StopPrice/0.50;Price=Ask-Price;Share=10/Price;TogSShare;ROUTE=LIMIT;Price= Ask+0.25;TIF=DAY+;BUY;Price=Ask-StopPrice*4+Ask;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:RANGE LowPrice:StopPrice HighPrice:Price ACT:SELL QTY:POS TIF:DAY+ This is a hotkey for FUTURES, that lets you click where you want your STOP to be. This is for a LONG position only. I am looking to see if someone can post or make a code to go SHORT. Thank you for any help

Hello fabulous BBT community! With the wild stock market ups and downs we're seeing these days, we'll frequently hear before the market opens on financial websites things like that "S&P Futures are up 400 points!" giving possible clues on how that markets will rally or fall during that day... Attempting to read this data myself I come up frustrated. For example if I overlay SPY with ES 09-20 or ES1! they are nearly identical to each other once properly re-scaled. I just don't see much divergence between the instruments and certainly not 400 points! What I my missing? What information source do market analyst review when they say things like "S&P/NYSE/NASDAQ Futures are up/down x points!" Thanks for the awesomeness and keep your person and your wallet safe! Jean-Pierre