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Also, the ES and Forex are completely opposite when considering margin. With hedging in the futures market, regardless of the symbol, hedging DOUBLES your margin that you are using. As opposed to FX, where it gives you back your margin. Wish it wasn't this way, but it is. But then, I also wish...

I think I want to clarify one very important thing with respect to hedging, and I don't think I emphasized this at all. My approach is guided by market structure. Time gets in the way. I have found that using a hedge on the same instrument is only beneficial at certain points after a motive wave...

First the only reason would be to protect a longer-running trade, which could be hours or days. In the case of using a "hedge" for day trading, TIME is the key aspect of consideration with respect to the resumption of the trend. The time of resumption of a trend could be minutes or hours and...