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Trading the ES with ninja and jigsaw

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I read your posts here and I see you have selected to be long ES today (good job) but what made you decide to get long this morning at the open? Were you reading momentum? It was hard to see what you were targeting in the video since its just watching the financial gain or loss.



Hi Johnson, thank you for your time seeing my journal and for your question. It seems you are talking about february,1st?
Market looked as buyers were getting stronger and trying to make new highs. The opening is an important point so when 1 tick above got bid i decided the first move was up. The target i took from other days 84,5 ( i am in cell phone now and will check later, if it isnt i edit here). Dont remember now if another day high or something, can check too. I took so long to hit, anyway i should bail 1 tick below open if it didnt work for both contracts. Hope tô have been clear, if there is something more unclear please let me know.

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Trade took much time so the video was 1GB, looking for a new free program so i can compress it so i edit and post here.

What are you using to record? Perhaps it's possible to use OBS and stream directly to YouTube. Then nothing is saved on your computer.

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What are you using to record? Perhaps it's possible to use OBS and stream directly to YouTube. Then nothing is saved on your computer.

will try it today, thanks!!

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Trades done on 02/02/17

The day opened inside yesterday's range and we had news at the openning, so i decided to be out of the openning. My internet conection went down at 09:45 EST and here starts the mistakes i did. I got nervous cause i could not trade. 15 minutes later it went up so i could trade and was anxious.

First trade: Shortl at 2274.75, yesterday's close. Came to the price 2 times i didn't hit, for the third time i new the risk was greater but i decided to go short. Took much time around this point and i saw buyers coming to the market. so i decided to scratch

After this i made my first mistake and had a stop loss: i saw buyers were strong and we would probably have a breakout as 74.75, anyway i didn't buy. i waited so the price got 77.75 that i had as a important point. Price stopped there so i went short at 77.25 and bail at 78.

Second mistake and the worst: Price continued up and i had nothing above 77.75, only 81.5. Price came to 77.75 and with no fundamentals since i bailed at 78 and went short again. Bail at 78.5.

Third trade: the market was fading, it came below its first maximum, 77.50, 77.25 became offer so i hit the 77.25 going short, price went down until 77.00, so it came back and i bail 3 ticks up.

Fourth trade: price went down again and 77 was offer, so i hit 76.75. my target was 75.25, where we had the breakout. it was taking so long and price went back and forth, so i decided to cover at 76.

the day is not over yet, if i trade again i edit this post. Anyway, i'll wait for a clear signal to enter.

ps. traded only 1 contract today

lesson for today: wait for the nervous to calm down to trade or after a problem not to trade for the day and make no movements against the momentum.

sorry that i forgot to record my screen for today, in fact i started recording, but when my internect connection went down i stopped and forgot to record again.

Good morning!
sorry cause i could not edit the videos, had to help my wife take care of my twins. Anyway, will try to do it today and let you know! will try the tool our friend suggested too.
Have we all a great week!

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I am also Brazilian looking forward to you progress

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Daniel, HyperCam works fine for me.

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Daniel, HyperCam works fine for me.

I'm using hypercam too but what happens is that avi final video is very large and could not find any softwares that works fine with avi files

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Trades on 02/03/2017



This is my first payroll's day operation at SP. Payroll's time was 1 hour before the opening and before the news the markets was looking for news highs. I waited for the news to come, price was 2279.25, made a new high, came back to price and i did nothing, as i said, it was my first time watching payroll's at SP so i waited. My first intention was to see the ES behavior.

I saw 4 new highs and had a strong poing at 2285.75, above this there was a last week gap til 2289.



The high winds seemed to me to have stopped so i decided to sell 2 contracts. This was my first operation. My intention was sell 2, buy 1 3 ticks below so i can have my risk management and the other 1 i expected the price to come back to the price it was on payroll news, 2279.25

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ES stopped at 2285.25 so i hit 2284.75. My first stop loss was above the maximum price we had, 2285.50. It didn't came to my first exit very fast, so i moved my first stop gain to 2 ticks so i could reduce the risk, the market went just 2 ticks above my entry. It took me out with the first contract, so i had 2 ticks on my pocket and would wait for the price to come back at 2279.25. There was no my money at risk anymore. Price went down about 5 ticks when it stopped and went up stopping my trade at 0 tô 0. Sorry i'm late with the video and could not edit the post anymore, anyway, the video is here:





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Second trade



Seems to me that a person entered alone and took everything at 85.50, so the ES made a new high at 86.50. I could not see any strong buying after this, i decided if 85.50 became offered i would hit 85.25 and go short. so i did it! the stop here was at the maximum of the day, 4 ticks high, in my opinion there was no other point. For some seconds it remembered me Brazil's market. You are right at the move but there are only a few people trading, there is no much liquidity, that's what i thought and i don't like to trade ES before the opening because of this. Price came to 85.50 bid, i waited, when it came 3 ticks below my entry price i took my profit and left.
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Third trade:



Market opened at 2287.00, tried to make new highs, tried to make new lows, was undefinied. When it came below 86 i hit 85.75 with a 2 tick stop loss, ES would have to go down. Once i saw some indefinition at the open i took 2 ticks and left.





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That's what i did for today. Market had entered the GAP territory and it was clear it could close the GAP at 2289. Anyway today is friday and once i have some profit decided to stay out and spend the weekend with no worries and without thinking that i lost on friday :-)


Could not edit the post anymore due to long time, anyway, this is 03/02/2017 with the videos. Sorry for the delay!

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Trades at 02/06/2017,

Market with no direction. Could not trade at openning, i was late to click and the market is fast. Expected to sell near friday's close, didn't do to, so as it respected the value area of the day i decided to wait for the minimum point at value area to buy if i saw some buying there. Saw some people going long at 2287.25 at the minimum of the value area so i went long too. Took much time and for small account like mine i think the risk is big to be waiting for so long, so i took a 1 tick profit.
This is the trade:



I would bet that the market wouldn't go anywhere, it seemed trades didn't want to go short nor long, so when it get the upper part of the value area and i saw some people going short i went short too. The lack of liquidity and time to wait made me take my 1 tick profit too.


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02/07/2017

Did nothing this day, my internet connection was down a few minutes before the openning and when it went up i had a 10 minutes delay, so i decided to wait for the next day and study a little more.

For today, 02/08/2017 i will post tomorrow. Made US$87.50, 9 trades. Too much trades, i know. Talk about them tomorrow.

Daniel

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