I am Camp from Austria (so excuse me for bad english please, will try to give my best). My story is long and so I will maybe write a longer post about myself a little later in the thread.
With this thread I want to force myself to consistency with regard to the additional tools I want to use in my trading. My main tool always stayed the same for the last 13 month, its the D&$ from Jigsaw Trading. Since they are a registered vendor here I think its OK to name them, if not please tell me.
I will post my daily trades and results here, starting with a SIM Account, I hope there is no need to trade live here, if so please just tell me. I know that trading SIM is different from trading a live account but this is about consistency in techniques and not about the feeling of losing or making money, over all the years I made a lot and lost a lot, so I know both feelings.
Why I need to do this? The first two years of my trading I only used charts and was a loser most of the time, I then stumbled across Jigsaw and NoBS and they tought me how to use the book in a efficent way. I started to scalp out of the book and got pretty good at it I guess, when I went live with the orderbook I was up like 25% after 4 weeks, on the paper. But comission did eat a lot of it, so since then (january) Im trying to find a way to get into larger trades (2-4 points on the ES) but I am still struggling. I tried a lot of concepts from Market Profile to SMAs and I dont know what.
I will take a fresh start now using all the tools that made a lot of sense to me since I started trading, I will only use them to find trade location and manage the trades after they ran like 1-1,5 points into my direction. All other than that, things like entering and managing the trade in the first 1,5 points and exiting a trade as a loser happens through the Jigsaw DOM. I also use the DOM to average in and out of trades.
I attached a screenshot of my main screen. I use 3 screens, the one that is uploaded here, one for a basic 60 Min chart to mark levels and one for a world clock and economic calender.
The screen is loaded with a lot if information, I know. I will feel free to delete some of this tools if I feel they are too much and maybe add them later again, but I will use nothing more or different from the screen I showed you. Maybe a little less, if I feel its too much after the first sessions.
My tools are:
1 Min chart with SMA 15, Volume and GOMI Cumulative Delta.
3 Min Chart with Tick and MACD with standard settings
A Market Analyzer showing me movement across the board.
DionysusToasts Tick Average.
And a 30 Seconds 3 Line Break chart.
I think thats all for now, I will start tomorrow and will try to report daily, I hope thats ok. If there are any questions or rule violations please tell me. Thanks!