'Morning everyone! Profits on all three U.S. indexes before first hour of trading session. Small targets. Been finding out that swaps kill me a little more than drawdown, but oh well. I'm all done for the day!

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Happy Friday everyone! Here are this week's trades. Not too many with the volatility around last weekend's tariff announcements and then Davos this week. Earnings are also moving the indexes around. Also, I had a timing issue with the EAs, I entered ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Expand a little on this? What do you mean by reduced follow-through?

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Today's trades. Still some volatility around the Davos thing and Trump so I didnt want to risk too much with the Dow Jones trade, there was money left on the table but don't matter. I did manage to hit TP on S&P 500 futures. One position was a ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

UNRELATED: Yesterday's market drop provided a good dollar-cost-averaging opportunity for Dow Jones that hit TP today after the tariff, trade and Greenland uncertainty was cleared by the Don's speech at Davos.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Hi everyone! Slow week this week with a lot of volatility. Didnt trade Monday or Tuesday because of it and right now just keeping the trading manual. I did take trades on today's session break outs. Small profits for now, once this tariff and Davos ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Hey everyone! Traveled on Friday and today is a bank Holiday in the U.S. so here are last week's trades. Yes, I did take a loss on Friday.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Slow day for S&P500 and Nasdaq indexes after some serious bullish movement during the Asia and UK sessions. But the Dow Jones provided a TP on yesterday's session break out, a TP on today's session break out AND closed my dollar cost averaging ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Today's trades that hit profit. Only on S&P500 and Nasdaq.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Shorting U.S. markets today. TP hit on S&P500 and Dow Jones. Manual close on the Nasdaq position. Price is just dancing around at the 25662 - 25710 price so I just closed it for my own mental peace.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Forgot to turn off the EA and took another TP going long on Dow Jones. NOW I'm done for the day.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Done for the day! TP on all three U.S. indexes. I didn't feel comfortable shorting the Dow Jones, so I shrunk down the TP to a smaller target and let it hit.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

A bit off topic but one of my most recent DCA positions just closed. Dow Jones made an ATH this week that quickly reversed, I set a pending order on the grid and it just closed this morning.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Weekly trading report. Up +18% on this account. I'd like to note that I mix the break out strategy with a dollar-cost-averaging strategy. image image NFP news today moved the markets around way too much for my taste. The EA did it's job and ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Thank you! Keep following the thread and reaching out if you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or anything!

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Oh! Yeah I mean i'm trying something a little different: url Basically just trading the open instead of the initial balance. There's more movement at the open that fills my 10 and 5 pip daily goal.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Hey Roger! Thanks for commenting and for reading the thread. So, your image looks correct, and yeah on my server time the U.S. session starts at 16:30. I measure the IB from 16:30 to 17:29. I had that problem before because I don't want the high or ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

S&P 500 took some time today but hit my TP. Nasdaq and Dow Jones also provided profits.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Same trades as always.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Today's trades on U.S. indexes. You might say "oh there was money left on the table" and yes, there was. But as mentioned before, I go for relatively small yet high probability targets. I'm in, I'm out, I meet my own self-imposed "quota" and that's ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)