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Today I started my 50k combine and told @lemons that I will start a journal. So I will update this Thread daily and explain my trades.
So I started late today as OneUp didn't activate my account yet and had to wait. Then it went down hill. I am a Tradestation user and never used Ninjatrader. I paid the price today. I placed a Superdom and started placing limit orders to find out the horrible lag. For example I placed a few limit order +/- 0.03 of CL price trading and got filled right away. Which never happens to me on Tradestation. So I quickly wanted to exit the trade but ending up buying more.... Yup... What a first trade. So I was able to exit that trade and made a small $10 profit... yupppie. Okay now to real trade. YM I took a long position looking for a reversal and didn't pop. So exit about -$200. Next Trade I took was YM again for a reversal. Bought late since superdom I don't know how to place orders correctly on superdom. Took some profit early on and then took some after a big dip down. I set my limit order in place of where I want my stops to be and I ride it out. I do not straight at the screen of the trade as I will be looking for other position to take. I check every 5 mins or so.
I attached a picture with some word drawing (aka the finest drawing tool) to show what I look at. I will post better content with more detail it this thread picks up.
Trade 1: This morning I had an awesome trade of YM toping for one contract for a total profit of $385.00
Trade 2: Then I lost a on a CL contract. Thought it was a small pull back so i went long and quick when down $200
Trade 3: I scalp trade a CL contract from high of a 5 min bar back down to the new low
Trade 4: YM Broke the resistance line so I went long. This was just after market open and Super DOM was lagging on me again so I tried to exit so i can reset NT8. This is where i messed up. NT8 did not reopen. I still have yet to hear back from them and lost my chance to enter the market again. After hours of researching google. I got my own answer to run it in safe.
Trade 5: YM Broke Risistance line but then quickly came back down for a reversal rest of the day. At this point I was done. NT8 and I had to go to couples therapy.
Please give me some feedback on what you guys want to see. I will try to make some videos in futures just dont know what program to use yet.
So I wanted to post this to see if anyone else is having this issue.
Around 9:20 Trump said he will delay the tariff and I watched the markets go crazy and while watching the markets I notice NT8 has a delay of 2 seconds compared to my lovely Trade station. On average they are pretty much the same but during high volume spikes, NT loses. I should say my data feed, Rithmic, lose. So I attachment two pictures where you can see the difference and it looks that NT is ahead on a 5 min chart with a bar being created sooner but i watched it close and its off by about to 2 second. I watched Trade station makes new highs and lows on that 5 min bar and i was able to blink 4 times before NT hit those highs and lows.
Any one else experience that or test it out before?
Edit:
This is not only for YM but all futures. The same time oil spike it was off as well.
I use TradeStation as well, and I definitely noticed a difference when Rithmic data was not in sync with it....However initially I was not 100% sure which is the one lagging though. Had to stop trading because of that.
I had a similar experience like this in the past, i think mine was caused by my CPU running at max during fast moving markets. I was using a platform that could run on just 1 core so once it used up 25% of my CPU it was causing freezes and delays in quotes.
I would suggest keeping an eye on the amount of CPU you are using and NinjaTrader is using.
Trade 2: QM opening RTH short then closed out for a small loss of $25
Trade 3: QM short for reversal that quickly got spiked out for loss of $100
Trade 4: MNQ short for reversal double top. Loss $50
Trade 5: YM long to break double top. Sold too early head wasnt clear at this time.
Trade 6: ES short Double top.
At this point I was placing trades trying to catch big moves but instead I was shorting and going long on the same markets. Needed to clear m head so I stopped and went to go destroy my mind and body by running.
Hello all so I finally got some kind of video coming. Not the best but if you guys like it I will improve.
So total of 5 traders only 2 big ones.
Trade 1 YM 7:30- YM trending upwards overnight. Lead to a pull back/ double top that stop and headed for triple top. I exit shortly after triple top.
Trade 2,3,4 -...... NQ... What can I say. NQ I thought this was going to spike down then up then down then up... I started to get scared of losing my profit on YM so I kept changing position from long to short back to long. (Something I have to work on)
Trade 5- YM I enter at 8:50 after I seen no 8:50 market swing zone and played the trend up till buying power stopped and when into a trading range.
