Would be interesting to see if the range drops off on Wednesdays. Volume looks decent today. Waiting on news tomorrow? Durable goods numbers tomorrow and advance GDP on Friday. With yesterdays big move (over 400 ticks of range) you almost expect a ...

Plan the Trade

Sticking to your plan is one of the key reasons you are successful at trading. One of the hardest things for people to learn.

Plan the Trade

Hello..ello ello ello Is anybody out there? LOL! Oh wait, it's Wednesday. Forgot. Divergence no trade day. And judging by the ridiculously tight range a wise choice it is. Hope everyone is doing well. I feel like going out and spending some of my ...

Plan the Trade

I haven't posted because I have just been sim trading Monday and Tuesday. Mostly trying to get my entry timing right. Experimenting with different time frames to try to keep the draw down to a minimum. Hope some of you caught that beautiful trend ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

Hope you are still sitting on your hands.... nice call.

Plan the Trade

Forum drama.... yuk. As Rodney King once said... "Can't we all just get along?" FF loves drama... it generates page views which is how they make money off of ads. Speaking of ads, don't the guy in the Oanda ads look like one of the Russian dudes ...

(binned per thread starter’s request) Give me your money

Here is a screenshot from NinjaTraders brokerage page: image No big deal. Premium entries only and tight stops until it builds enough to have a reasonable cushion. As far as forex goes, I do plan on creating a small account and trading it but not ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

Haven't really looked at what VWAP would look like on a forex chart with tick volume instead of real volume. I have thought about putting VWAP on a futures contract for the euro. Sort of a hybrid trading system where one of your charts is actually ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

A few notes for the upcoming week. 1. Monday has the potential to either be really awesome or really odd. Many countries are still off for Easter so I definitely won't be trading during the Euro session. I will monitor the Asian session (tonight) ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

Sounds like you spent too much time thinking and not enough time drinking.

Staying In My Lane - A Read-Only Journ(al/ey)

As long as it helps people it's not derailing the thread. I am too old to take too much seriously. LOL!

Getting Freaky With Futures

What about leverage? Do you have to pay full price per contract? Data fees are probably at the pro level as well (about 10x as much). Thanks for the info everyone. I don't seem to be mentally in the game yet. May do some demo for a week or so to get ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

Looks like the US market said thanks for running it up, we will take profit here. LOL! I wish I could have been up at around 4 am eastern US to jump on the run up but sleep won out.

Plan the Trade

Ok, here is how I trade. The 4 moving averages are grouped into 3 pairs. Time Frame: although this is effective on most any time frame the highest winning percentage is on the 5 minute and up. Stop size: Just depends on you and your tolerance for ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

The biggest drawback to trading the 5 minute and longer time frame is that you sometimes walk into a chart that looks like this: image Looks like a really nice trend developed a little while after London open. Best case would be US open pushes it ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

LOL! Nope.... but I am about to strangle NinjaTrader. I am back though. I tried to automate some things to help out but I am fighting with NinjaScript when submitting orders. Oh well, back to basics. Hope everyone is doing great. Later

Plan the Trade

volume is decent but no real news or trump and dumps to push the market.

(binned per thread starter’s request) Give me your money

I have had about all I can take with NinjaTrader. No issues when the strategy sends an order to either the sim account or during market playback. Try to send it to live account and I get an invalid time in force...... IT'S A DADGUM MARKET ORDER!!! ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

I am using NinjaTrader brokerage which is just a front for either Dorman or Philip Capital. $500 per contract intra day margin on ES, YM and NQ. $1000 is only required to open the account. If it drops below 500 I will just switch up and trade M6E ...

Getting Freaky With Futures

Price made a decent move at London open but the last hour has been flat. Because of the flatness right now, I will wait for the 5 minute to start to set up before looking at the 1 min for an entry. Would like to see it pull back a bit more (down to ...

Getting Freaky With Futures