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AMA: FuturesTrader71 (FT71) / Morad Askar - Ask Me Anything

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Hi FT71,
I wanted thank you for the great webminar yesterday. It got me to thinking about one of the other webminars I have seen you give on day type analysis. Was that done in Excel or from inside Investor/RT? I trade CL exclusively and would like to do a similar study to the one I saw you do for ES. If its in excel can you post an empty spreadsheet with the formulas as a template or maybe just a rough thought process flow that I could go through to create it? Thank you.

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FT,

Do you only take trades towards value? True or false ?

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How would you suggest managing the trade with a 1 lot

With out a doubt, trading with 1 contract is much harder than 3 or 4. But it seems to be a normal progessing step from 1 to multiple. Then with that is risk managment and giving the trade some room to breath.
I believe it is all about waiting for your setup to mature and then execute with confidence. Whether it is 1 or multiple lots.



I'm aiming to change the fact that you have to go from 1 to 2 contracts to trade a product like the ES. We are pushing the exchange (met with the CME today, in fact) to introduce micro-Index products to help people start at 2 or more. It is definitely tougher trading in a binary way (either 1 contract on or off).

The best way to manage a 1-lot really is to use a fixed trade management scheme and to have an approach that gives you many signals during the trading session. There is no great way to trade it since you can't bank any profits to let the runner run in this situation.

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Don't want to clutter the thread too much, but wanted to give a thanks to FT and to Mike. Great information, lots of wisdom in these 30 minutes without hype, as usual.

Thanks, Josh. Glad you find it useful. This makes it a worthwhile effort for everyone.

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Hi FT71,
I wanted thank you for the great webminar yesterday. It got me to thinking about one of the other webminars I have seen you give on day type analysis. Was that done in Excel or from inside Investor/RT? I trade CL exclusively and would like to do a similar study to the one I saw you do for ES. If its in excel can you post an empty spreadsheet with the formulas as a template or maybe just a rough thought process flow that I could go through to create it? Thank you.

Chris

Day-type analysis was done in Excel from bar data exported from IRT. I am unable to post the excel sheet because it is specific to that data and it contains some proprietary stuff in there that is reserved for Stage 5 traders.

It is not hard to create it though. Give it a crack and see where you end up.

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FT,

Do you only take trades towards value? True or false ?

PS: Inspirational work all you do, great thank you!

False. I take trades that are based on a probability of some future thing happening. If the context is such that we are breaking away from value and are moving away (initiative moves), then I will go with that. But if the market is in balance, then I will trade to value on a choppy day.

In either case, I generally don't trade breakouts and am fading some time frame to capture another.

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Hi,

This is a question for Big Mike and FT71 that I have been wanting to ask for a while.

FT says he has a background as a scalper and still looks at shorter timeframes. Big Mike talks about how his smaller charts are 100K tick charts.

I would love it if you two would discuss what is different about your trading styles, and what is not.

In the areas where you diverge, how do you guys feel your styles fit personally, and in the areas where you find common ground, what do you agree are the most important and universal concepts for trading success?

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I'm aiming to change the fact that you have to go from 1 to 2 contracts to trade a product like the ES. We are pushing the exchange (met with the CME today, in fact) to introduce micro-Index products to help people start at 2 or more. It is definitely tougher trading in a binary way (either 1 contract on or off).

The best way to manage a 1-lot really is to use a fixed trade management scheme and to have an approach that gives you many signals during the trading session. There is no great way to trade it since you can't bank any profits to let the runner run in this situation.


Wow, a micro ES (any/all micro-Index products actually) would be an awesome way for beginners to to learn the trading craft. Certainly wish you success in your efforts. And I'm looking forward to funding my S5 account soon, Cheers!

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