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Good luck!

Via options?

Why at close?

Already done for the day. I was curious to see how bad the slippage would be during news and RB seems to be just fine. About the same as CL. Anyways got long last night around 6pm and moved my stop to 1.3550 after the EIA data. Got stopped almost immediately for a daily gain of 0.0094. Staying...

Anyone trading the FOMC rate decision today? If so, care to share your idea?

So I ran my CL back-testing on RB futures and it is stronger. I know the slippage will be worst with RB but the additional edge should more than make up for it. I will be trading RB for now. I also refined my profit taking rule. Those two changes will be the last changes I make for 12 months...

Good luck hurricane

Down day today. The reversal around noon went against me. Just have to stay the course. I know that with my system about half the trades will be losers and I am ok with that. Strings of bad days will happen and that is out of my control. All I can do is stick to my system and follow my rules.

I agree with LF. Everyone here wants OP do be successful but he is clearly not ready.

Hurricane, I think you need to first gather data and develop an edge. I spent 3 years developing my system and I follow it to the letter. Trading willy nilly in my opinion is not for you. I think you need a few simple rules and to maybe think about another time frame. You could trade daily bars...

Flat day today. Slightly down week. +2.9 for the month so far. Hoping for some big moves next week.

OP, not kicking you when you're down at all but I am genuinely curious, how did you lose almost 10k in one day?

My system gets killed on days like today. Got stopped around 9:30am EST and got back in an hour later. Got out of that second trade for a small loss for an overall daily loss of -.8. Still a successful day in my book since I followed my rules. Days like today happen once in a while, just gotta...

I was short going into the EIA report. Got stopped because of the sharp up-move but got back in and finished the day with a .35 gain.

It was actually at 46.06. I always have my stop .5 away from my entry.

Had a stop limit waiting over night around half a point away from the close to catch any big move. My stop was at 46. When my stop isn't hit I close around 4pm EST which is what I did today. These trades have been working nicely lately as there hasn't been many sharp mid session reversals.

This thread is created to provide a place for those who trade futures to post and reflect on their own trading day as well as a place to generate ideas. You're well advised to follow a few simple rules regarding DOs and DON'Ts: 1) Do post trades for the current day, the good, bad, and ugly. 2)...

That was one of my main concerns, thanks for the input

I have been researching ways to profit from index skew changes and the research paper below has some good information. http://www.mat.ucm.es/~ivorra/papers/TFMAG.pdf The paper points to the fact that index skew gets steeper as expiration approaches. I am trying to think of a way to make...

If you don't mind I would like to hear some specifics about your strategy like: - What is your entry trigger? - What is your exit trigger? - Do you hedge in any way? - What specific ratio 2 -1, 3 -1? - How do you adjust your position if price starts to go against you? - What is your time frame...