Yes, but careful with Home Sales and Consumer Confidence in about 10 minutes.
If they're awful and the stock market tanks I'm going short, but with those two storms lurking will be quick to take profits and will look for a place to reverse and get long before the close.
Then again... I was...
My number one rule and the one that's helped me the most with my discipline, sticking to the rest of the rules, etc. is simply:
<b>Absolutely no trading before I've been awake for two hours.</b>
I'll have breakfast, prepare lunch in advance, read the news, go over some charts, re-read my...
A nice comment on somebody else's performance... Aren't you afraid they will ban you from the site? :D
Seriously, though, yes, it's an impressive performance: 1 losing month, 1 that is basically a scratch and 10 moderate to large winners. :)
Awesome trade, congrats. :)
One technical question: do you use a "close all" time for all instruments (and if so, which one) or one per instrument (16:00//16:15 for ES; 17:15 for CL; etc.). Thanks.
I'm sure you already know, but at 2:00 EST Bernanke speaks - which should give us some movement (in my view, particularly through EURUSD).
Edit 19:40 Storm downgraded a notch 5 minutes ago, hahaha
That pop in oil (which led the pop in the ES by a minute or two) may have been caused by the last update on the storm that is now moving West - or not :D
Yes, if I'd seen the numbers right away I would have shorted at the rebound to 77.60, but since it was retracing all it had dropped I was looking to get long at a retest of the lows.
(Is elitetrader going real slow today or is it my connection?)
If I understand you correctly, what you're looking for is called "Time and Sales" in IB and is a different window from depth of market. You don't need any subscription.
I have it as a button on the toolbar and I have already closed the TWS, but I think is somewhere in the Information tools...