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I am trading only in my head right now :) I watch the market, but I do not see any of my set-ups. Yeah, interest rate futures react quite hard to macro news, because that is all they have. Nobody sells all his stocks because the unemployment rate has changed, the focus is a lot more on...

I take small pieces of trends. I scalp on average 5 times a day. I watch momentum and volume, various time frames and pivot points (not just last days high and low) Most trades last less then 30 minutes. I do p&f, MP and bar charts.

IMO if you play short time frame (1 h bars is short time frame) it makes only sense to fade the narrow range in front of potentially big news, which would mean buying below 115,5 and selling above 115,6 going for some ticks. My guess is that the range before noon will be not more then 20 ticks...

Why that? Hmm..., we will have a tight range in front of the BOE and EZB rate descisions and following statements. And after the news the direction is wide open to all sides.. (even if as I assume nothing spectacular will be said or made)

You are scalping really nicely the stock index futures. You should focus on them and avoid or really underweight fixed income futures.

That's the right way: focus on the process (basic sport psychology).

KS, do you use time stops? I mean, do you give a trade for example 15 minutes to evolve and if not scratch it?

Indeed I was long estx and gbl in the morning, and short gbl in the afternoon and I am flat now. Sonds great, but were just some scalps for some ticks.. ;-)

low volume, getting nowhere..+ but where is nowhere?

Could be.. There are too many players out there waiting for a correction (and are positioned for) that an upward breakout has quite a good chance even off the obvious sell divergences (weakening momentum) And below 4230 there is some support, but let's see and find a good risk/reward set-up. :)

Narrow range in the estx. We had very tight ranges thursday and friday. perhaps we will see some move today. gbl is above major resitstance levels. could test 115,75 today or next days. was nice trend up this morning.

Wether for longs nor for shorts.. I think we could be bound for a retracement up in the bund I use MP now for almost a year and I - a like it - a different view on the market than bar chars - it helps me to define support, resistance, range and balance area.

You know, I draw my own market profile charts in a spreadsheet and the bund today looks like a gun - perfect shape :D

this long is golden and I guess a good chunk of profit is saved by a sl :D

Looks like a tug of war of the big guys. could be the beginning of a retracement up to the weekly downtrending MAs... Anyway, let's see what the Minchigan survey says and how they will react then.

The bund got crazy whipsaws today...

Gutsy right in front of the news.

good sleep and being unbiased is very fundamental for me and besides holding overnight is riskier than closing and opening again in the morning

Cause you can sleep better that night and you wake up without a bias. I:) Very often a loser remains a loser the next morning. Surely, it is different if you trade on a longer timeframe, eg. swing trading for several days

Could be. Bund was cutting through a lot of resistances yesterday, but it was a harsh reversal. Bund is still in overall downtrend, but a little oversold with daily buy divergences. I was surprised that you did hold the long position overnight. Better not staying with a losing future position...