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The Pandawarrior Chronicles II

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Thanks for starting this 'experimental' journal, and good luck with your experiment!

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Last night looking at the chart I thought I had a chance for an entry on the swing side of things....so I initiated a 1 lot trade, put in the stops and targets and went to bed.

So far MFE is +75 and it pulled back to around +15 or so before heading back up. I will leave it open over the weekend. Since its sim, the stops and targets are locally hosted so if price goes against me more than 250 ticks I think I'm toast. With a live account, orders are at the exchange so don't have to worry about that with live trading.

I'm tracking this manually on paper so if for some reason this happens, I'll mark it as a -250 tick loss even though ninja might have it as a much larger one due to filling orders on monday and a large gap down opening. At least thats the way I think it will work....not done this before so no idea really how it will record the trades.

Scalping I passed on a short trade which would have netted me +20 ticks and waited for the next trade which ended up being a short in the hole which I moved to BE pretty quick as the order flow was not really confirming. Once it closed up I basically reversed and took my 20 ticks on the long. The scalping was with half size at 3 lots so +$600 on the day with an open swing trade.

See what happens.....



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Since this is my first swing trade, I'm treating it like a new born baby....taking pictures a bit to often....but I promise, this will be the last update until I either add to it or close it out.

Current state of the swing trade:

If I close it now, I will have made more money on the swing trade with one lot than I did on the scalp with 3 lots.


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Nice job journaling @PandaWarrior.

I want to let you and all your readers know that in October nexusfi.com (formerly BMT) has a Trading Journal contest w/prizes. The contest runs October 1 to October 31, and the three best journals (as decided by nexusfi.com (formerly BMT) members) will receive a 150K combine from TopstepTrader.

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If anyone has suggestions on how to solve the issue noted on my chart, please chime in.

Original swing trade still open....see chart for issues related to this.

Three scalp trades today. All three lots including the add on of 3 lots on the last trade.

-25,+6,+40 with an add on for another +20, total of +60 on that trade for a net of +40 less commissions.

PnL of $1100 after costs.

This puts me at +$500 profit per contract and time to add another lot to initial entry on the scalp trades. This delta might be to aggressive but I'm gonna test it out here.

EDIT: I closed the swing trade out at BE because I don't really know what the real entry price is anymore. I am going to start over after talking to NT again about separating the two different styles in the same account....


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If anyone has suggestions on how to solve the issue noted on my chart, please chime in.

Original swing trade still open....see chart for issues related to this.

Three scalp trades today. All three lots including the add on of 3 lots on the last trade.

-25,+6,+40 with an add on for another +20, total of +60 on that trade for a net of +40 less commissions.

PnL of $1100 after costs.

This puts me at +$500 profit per contract and time to add another lot to initial entry on the scalp trades. This delta might be to aggressive but I'm gonna test it out here.

EDIT: I closed the swing trade out at BE because I don't really know what the real entry price is anymore. I am going to start over after talking to NT again about separating the two different styles in the same account....

[IMG]https://cdn.bmcharts.com/screencast/vKcXHTKlEj.png[/IMG]

I believe You need to enable hedging for your account - unfortunately I don't recall whether you do that with your broker or if NT can do that for SIM/ in general...

Sorry that I can't be more specific..


EDIT

Searched for it b/c I could not remember where I had that info from. Seems that I've been mistaken there - hedging within Ninjatrader is only possible through using multiple accounts.

At least that's all I found in terms of statements from ninjatrader (or anyone else, for that matter)

Sorry. My bad.

ST

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I believe You need to enable hedging for your account - unfortunately I don't recall whether you do that with your broker or if NT can do that for SIM/ in general...

Sorry that I can't be more specific..


EDIT

Searched for it b/c I could not remember where I had that info from. Seems that I've been mistaken there - hedging within Ninjatrader is only possible through using multiple accounts.

At least that's all I found in terms of statements from ninjatrader (or anyone else, for that matter)

Sorry. My bad.

ST

Multiple accounts it is...confirmed with NT.....but supposedly NT.8 this will be addressed.

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Multiple accounts it is...confirmed with NT.....but supposedly NT.8 this will be addressed.

I always wondered how that worked. Thanks.

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Because of the limitations of NT using SIM to manage both long and short term trades in the same account, I've decided to simulate the swing trades only. Basically post the entry price along with the time along with the stop and target numbers. Then track this in real time as the trade develops.

To that end, here is a chart with the first and second entries noted.

Entry price for first trade is 92.55 and 93.24. Combined entry price is now 92.89. Stops for both positions now moved up to 91.98. Target remains at 97.80 which was the original target price.

The second entry happened today while I was live in the market but by then I had determined I had a calculation issue with the swing trade and no way to fix it. I closed the trade rather than add to it. I had hoped I had a box checked wrong and I could resume doing both swing and scalp trading.

Since that is not to be, please accept the simulation. I'll keep it up on an as needed basis.

Current open profit is $2900+/- with current price at 94.30 as I type.

Closed profit for scalping is $1700 after commissions.


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A nice day trading. One and done.

Reversal signals today....but had a break out long at the opening bell....way to much risk after the fact so let it go....took the break of the ledge short once price couldn't break out from the ORH and sustain it.

I felt price would make it back to the ORL which was enough for a scalp and I left some on to see what would happen. I set my final target at yesterday's 50% level and let it ride.

I had also decided to take the swing trade off today if it could not break out of 94.80 area with some authority but to let it have room to breathe as well just in case. So once price broke below the up trend line, I marked it as closed. Net profit of around $3300 after commissions.

Today's trading produced $1980 after commissions.

Total for the experiment so far, $7,000 since Thursday night. With slightly less than half coming from a single trade held since Thursday night and missing almost all of yesterday's move.

Since I made more than $500 per contract today, I am adding another one tomorrow. And while my personal limit is 5, I am going to use the TST limits for this experiment which is 15 so I have a ways to go.



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