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December 13th, 2022, 04:20 PM
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DMIC2059 Tools
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I see Ninjatrader just announced an upcoming...
I see Ninjatrader just announced an upcoming webinar for DMIC on Dec 15 in a couple of days. I signed up after the last webinar because I saw enough parallels between his appraisal of significant...
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Traders Hideout
May 11th, 2020, 03:25 PM
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I have no "edge" - Should I throw in the towel?
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A tibdit. Your mouse is the meal. The market is a...
A tibdit. Your mouse is the meal. The market is a rattlesnake. If you're scalping in the equities, especially NQ, YM, RTY, but also ES at prime time hours, you have to set your stops and targets...
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Traders Hideout
February 7th, 2020, 11:21 AM
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I'm absolutely devastated, don't know where I'm heading now
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The malady is in the money supply.
Oliver if I had to pick one piece of advice from all that's been given as the best explanation of why your systems quit working its for the same reason that even hedge funds managers and algo...
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Trading Reviews and Vendors
November 22nd, 2019, 11:17 AM
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Earn2Trade (Helios) - "The Gauntlet"
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Impressed with top level integrity at Earn2Trade
I just finished a chat with the founder of Earn2Trade, Ryan, resolving an issue with rules violation, and was impressed with the integrity with which he stepped in on the chat from top level...
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Trading Reviews and Vendors
November 21st, 2019, 01:00 PM
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Lawrence Chan & Daytrading Bias - Review (www.daytradingbias.com)
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Requested answers about daytradingbias
I received this private message this morning but elected to answer here for the benefit of all.
" daytradingbias.com
Hello profitpilgrim,
Thanks for your thread comment/review of the...
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Trading Reviews and Vendors
November 14th, 2019, 11:54 AM
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Lawrence Chan & Daytrading Bias - Review (www.daytradingbias.com)
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profitpilgrim
Little does a newcomer know the expertise of Lawrence Chan
I'm taking time here to give a heads up to those asking to know more about Lawrence Chan's service from someone with an intimate knowledge of premium membership. He doesn't know I'm making this post....
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Traders Hideout
November 4th, 2019, 07:47 PM
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Battlestations: Show us your trading desks!
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Han's tips on 43" 4k TV's as monitors & my rocking chair
Pleasures and precautions of two 43" TV's as monitor:
Pleasures:
Expanding a chart to full screen, especially if they're both on the same computer, gives a very broad view of price action which...
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NinjaTrader
September 29th, 2019, 05:51 PM
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Ask Me Anything (AMA) with NinjaTrader Client Services
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Can NT do point and click VWAP point of origin?
Raymond the cats meow in VWAP is to be able to point and click on a spike or flush to establish the point of origin. Can your new improvements to VWAP do that. Is it planned anytime soon?
Thanks...
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Trading Journals
February 26th, 2017, 10:31 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Have I won the highest net loss in journaling contest?
As the next step in analyzing how to exploit the exploiters whose algos wiggle the wealth out of retail traders, I'm going to use Bloodhound to backtest my ATM algos to see to what extent my...
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Trading Journals
February 24th, 2017, 04:05 PM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Could burning countertrend reversions be algo's best cherry picking
In reviewing my experiment at trading a simulated $150 TST Combine, with 5 contract entries attempting to scalp some profit and always leave a riding contract of 1 or 2 to catch a trend, thus far the...
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Trading Journals
February 23rd, 2017, 01:27 PM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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profitpilgrim
Tightening and loosening risk reward parameters
2-21-17 P/L ($2445.8)
Cum P/L ($143131.82)
Exceeded TST max drawdown so reset again.
2-22-17 P/L ($1209.64) Long $51.46, Short $(1261.10)
Cum P/L
You may have noticed that the progression of...
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Trading Journals
February 21st, 2017, 09:49 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Dynamically adjusting lookback periods to adapt MA's to volatility
2-20-17 P/L no trades on President's day.
The sixties pop song said "I've looked at love from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow, its love's illusions I recall I really don't...
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Trading Journals
February 20th, 2017, 01:39 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Necessary rules to respect trend and escape countertrend compulsions
2-17-17 P/L ($2413.44)
$Cum P/L $145577.62
Given another hard loss trending day, it would appear that I must impose on myself more stringent rules than the "Decisive Decision" in my 4th post,...
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Trading Journals
February 17th, 2017, 12:18 PM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Can it be done?
2-16-17 Net P/L = ($2008.94)
Cum P/L = $147,992
If you've tracked this journal you know I am attempting an ideal, that is to scalp small reversions against the immediate direction of price by...
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Trading Journals
February 17th, 2017, 09:29 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Pre-market
Its options expiration Friday. A respected professional hedge fund trader indicates that option market makers need the ES to stay below themid 30s and above 2300 so bias is down this morning.
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Trading Journals
February 16th, 2017, 10:08 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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profitpilgrim
2-14-17 Net P/L = ($3023.02) Cum P/L =...
2-14-17 Net P/L = ($3023.02)
Cum P/L = $45712.49
No Preopen comments this morning.
The 14th was another great hard trending market well suited to refine reversionary scalping ATM's intended...
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Trading Journals
February 15th, 2017, 09:27 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Revelations of Loss Analysis - How to prevent losers
2-14-17 Net P/L = ($2043.70)
Cum P/L = $48735.51
Today's Preopen bias
Markets are overextended into 4a days of new high all time highs. A 20 to 30 point pullback is likely now that the FOMC...
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Trading Journals
February 14th, 2017, 09:29 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Pre-market observations and plans
After 3 days of opening gaps up the market is due for a correction. With Fed Chair Yellen is speaking today markets are vulnerable to spikes following quiet price action. I'll be favoring entering...
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Trading Journals
February 14th, 2017, 09:02 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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profitpilgrim
Please repost your Thanks in the Journal Challenge Thread
The winner's of the topsteptrader $150K contest are determined by the number of readers when enter thanks, but only if that Thanks appears in the journal challenge thread HERE...
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Trading Journals
February 13th, 2017, 10:14 PM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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profitpilgrim
Trailers made almost all the profit!
2-13-17 Net P/L = $1066.77
Cum P/L = 150,779.21
Max drawdown ($363.26)
Sharpe ratio 4.73
Ulcer index 0.00
9 trades.
Download the new attached 5 lot (not 10) NQ YM ATM's, and the newly...
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Trading Journals
February 12th, 2017, 09:02 PM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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profitpilgrim
Three self-sabotaging impulses
In my last post I generally contrasted "cognitive bias" with known "statistical bias" and how they compete in discretionary trading decisions. I traced cognitive bias to positive and negative...
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Trading Journals
February 10th, 2017, 02:58 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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profitpilgrim
Cognitive Bias vs. Statistical Bias - A promising revelation
2-8-17 Net P/L = ($2507.82)
Cum P/L = ($287.56)
Today offered a promising though sobering revelation. I went from $922 net profit by 10:45 ET to $2507.82 net loss by EOD closing. So why...
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Trading Journals
February 9th, 2017, 09:27 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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2,858
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profitpilgrim
Premarket trades
Because the volatility on entry is not as wild as shortly after the open I look carefully for setups during the pre-market hour, with special attention to S/R (support/resistance) levels that price...
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Feedback and Announcements
February 9th, 2017, 01:13 AM
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FIO Journal Challenge - February 2017 (over $1,100 in prizes)
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17,853
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profitpilgrim
Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
Current Stats:
Cum Net Closed P&L = $2220 in first 4 days of $150K sim trading which started Feb 3.
Symbols traded = ES, NQ, YM
I debated whether or not to enter this journal contest for a $150K...
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Trading Journals
February 9th, 2017, 01:05 AM
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
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Profitpilgrim's Blend of CT Scalps & Trend Trailing (free ATMs)
If you haven't downloaded the last necessary ATM stop template below or the other 11 ATM strategy templates and stop templates posted HERE ...
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