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I'm a beginning trader with a small account; for this reason, I've been mostly trading ZF until I have a consistently profitable strategy.
I mostly trade in the afternoons (I'm on the west coast) - and volatility can be pretty low during those times.
I've been trading with market profile but have had very few opportunities the last few days. Today (for the several hours I watched ZF) it only traded between a 4 tick range.
I'm wondering what you guys do when volatility goes down substantially? Do you trade other markets? Spreads? If so, curious what markets and how you trade them?
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I would recommend trying to trade something like the micro e Minis. That’ll expose you to real volatility with small capital exposure. There is also a micro gold but gold is very correlated to bonds
So basically intraday I should also monitor the 30 dow companies (vs. say NYSE TICK?)? Are there other internals I should be watching out for? Rotations into defensives vs. cyclicals (dow vs. nasdaq?) What else should I watch out for intraday?
I only do swing algorithmic trading on daily charts, so from a standpoint of discretionary intraday I have no idea what you would have to be looking at to be successful. But I wouldn’t even try it. I’ve spend countless hours developing “intraday” systems that close at the end of stock session and it seems almost impossible. I was just saying that if you’re bored with bonds a great place to look for action with little danger is the micros.
