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Do you add to winners and let your winners run ?

The real issue here is that you are not receiving the information when the facts have been presented to you.

The May 2020 CL Contract debacle is what happened. And every futures broker on Planet Earth came up with contract liquidation procedures after that mess.

You didn't do your homework. IB lists Liquidation for the QMF contract (both long and short) as 2022/01/18 8:00 (ET). Found it using the link above.

Because the Chinese Real Estate Market is a giant, wildly over-levered speculative bubble and there are millions of uninhabited units in various stages of completion that have to be refinanced this year. These Chinese Companies can't even service their debt at current rates - and the Fed is...

Unless you have some sort of elaborate risk grading system, I can't see the utility of varying the notional value of the trade size.

I just can't envision an experienced software developer wanting to manually scalp E-Minis. It's an automated world. ;)

>>>>>THIS I started my career scalping Treasury Bond Futures and transitioned over to day trading spreads and now for the past dozen years I have been swing trading futures spreads. Totally different skill set. Not particularly transferable. My scalping skills are most useful for legging...

This is very sound advice. Also, don't go into a test with a pre concieved bias. Let the market test tell you what the proper course of action is.

Agreed, I try to avoid generalities when it comes to trading, but there isn’t really a negative per se to paper trading a new strategy.

I take your point - but in my mind it depends entirely upon how "new" and different the strategy is as compared to your current trade. For example, if you are an ES scalper and you've never taken a spread trade or an options trade before, paper trading for some period of time wouldn't really...

It has its place with new strategies for experienced traders.

It may just be semantics - but forcing trades usually ends up badly from my experience. If it's not there, don't take it.

Platt's is the gold standard.

Good luck fighting the FED

Very nice. I have two desks with two CPU’s in an “L” configuration similar to yours.

I provide my clients with a MS Excel spreadsheet macro for tracking their paper trades. We also typically meet one-on-one once per week or so in order to break down trade entries and trade management. It works if you track it like a real trade - entry, daily marks, stop-loss, profit target...

With futures you can easily make sub-accounts. Not sure about a straight up equities account, though.

Model Weekly or Monthly data for a better perspective. Just my 2 cents, I wish you good fortune!

1. N is July, and 2. An awful lot of professional Crude traders in Houston would beg to differ with you about the importance of Contango and Backwardation in the Crude markets.