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Small losses...large gains...sometimes

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It was the wrong chart so i will try again



this it...

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  #72 (permalink)
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A pretty eventful night before I got up as i suspected it might be...and it continued.

We had a +10 profit goal hit, but we were already out as had an 'extreme' a few minutes earlier.

the losses were skinny in both series traded and we took profits at 125775....and it went on to 125425 without us..

Net profit 9.5 before comms...13 contracts...


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FOMC day...won't be trading until after 2.30 EST

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There was no trading this afternoon...did not get in as EMA stayed positve all afternoon...Will open new series after 1.30 am,subject to radiation leaks...

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Series completed this morning...long wait...busy so will update later with chart and no more trading until sfter 1.30 am EST.

Did not get full +10 as extremme happened a shade earlier.


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Here is the chart from yesterday's trade...unlucky as had to take a loss on the series as it hit the extremme then rolled through to +10...it happens

Net loss 6.75 points plus comms...65 contracts...that hurt

Since then there have been 4 more +10s in a volatile period...no trades taken,unfortunately.

No trade available since 1.30 am EST either...wont take up a new trade until 9 am ..


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Todays trade was a close call...had approximately 3 more trades and would have hit a stop....took 26 trades equal recent high to complete series...but profitable

Net profit 11.00 points before comms...81 contracts...

Don't like Fridays will not enter before 7 am EST,but may decide not to trade at all....


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Not trading today...never really like Fridays...focusing all my day on Multicharts and probably annoy the hell out of them with some specific needs in order to justify buying their product...

Happy trading all..

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Have had an exacerbating weekend trying to get data from MC..don't know whether it was them or broker feed or CME/Globex...but was not fun

As a result of Friday's fortunate lay off from this strategy I have made a specific change to the EMA setting which will bring in (hopefully) more profit hits from the CMO 'extreme' range. In essence, I will be in effect reducing the potential +10 profit goal for the sake of less ,but more frequent profits at the extremes while,and more importantly, reducing potential exposures to my stop loss method.

I will not disclose the specific change for a week, but will be (am) running the change with the current EMA100, meaning I am running double contracts ( exposure) where both levels trigger a trade.

In effect, if it goes totally wrong over night I will have 2 losses.

Currently was S at 7675 and 7525

L 7600 and 7675...might be a little confusing but in time will resolve itself.

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Have had an exacerbating weekend trying to get data from MC..don't know whether it was them or broker feed or CME/Globex...but was not fun

As a result of Friday's fortunate lay off from this strategy I have made a specific change to the EMA setting which will bring in (hopefully) more profit hits from the CMO 'extreme' range. In essence, I will be in effect reducing the potential +10 profit goal for the sake of less ,but more frequent profits at the extremes while,and more importantly, reducing potential exposures to my stop loss method.

I will not disclose the specific change for a week, but will be (am) running the change with the current EMA100, meaning I am running double contracts ( exposure) where both levels trigger a trade.

In effect, if it goes totally wrong over night I will have 2 losses.

Currently was S at 7675 and 7525

L 7600 and 7675...might be a little confusing but in time will resolve itself.

Last nights trades went very well...will provide charts and comments later when i get a chance.

Trader

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The charts and comments from last/morning trades

Profts were 9.75 ..2 contracts and 9.25..2 contracts respectively...a good day overall....no trades since .


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