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Thank you algofy, I enter trades with a Stop Market so i am enter on the best market order. Can I use a stop limit order for exiting where I protect myself for slippage and more loss? Rather then a stop market?

Thank you Robert Morse for advice. Yes, I reduce to 1 contract for now. Cause those stop loss orders take more loss and i was confused. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happen and was confused. There was time I was going long at 50.24, I did not fill til 50.20. So is this to be...

Thanks algofy, I don't understand why if many others have their stop at my entry a few ticks slippage is normal. Can you explain please? Yes, this week CL move fast/ I am trading CTS T4 platform and TopStepTrader is my broker.

Hello, So, I started trading CL live this past week after trading sim for about 3 months. Here is what I discovered that has cause me more losses then i expected. 1. Many times I enter a stop losss stop market order of -15ticks, but after the trade noticed I took an -15 to -19 tick loss...

Good response. Keeping it simple is what I have been trying to do lately. If I don't know something while I am trading, I simply do nothing. I write it down and discuss it with myself after the market close. I enjoy it.

Hello, I am still not profitable. So far spent about $1000 in study material and systems and lost about $6000. I been trading futures on and off for about 3.5 years. Lately studying and practicing alot.

Thank you Stymie and Handle123, Thankful for your response. I did not know that. Right now I am sim trading and my orders fill pretty nice. Are you telling me that if I always use a protection stop market order of -15 ticks from entry, there is a chance I can actually get stopped out at more...

Thanks Handle123, You have great experience in the markets. I trade the CL with 3 contracts. There are times when it just moves really fast. I stay out of trades at open bell and around news times. Have you experience any issues with Stop Market or Limit orders not getting filled and you...

Thanks Stymie, Can you explain a bit more with an example please? For CL, I use stop market order to stop out for a loss on trades, and limit orders at profit targets. What do you mean "when markets moves"? Do you mean move really fast? Thanks

Thank you for response. And good comments and advice. Yes, I am still forwarding testing daily. Its pain, but it lets me review my systems and answer those what if, then else, or wow I didn't think of this. Or what about the chop as you mentioned. Where do you hire a programmer? Thanks

Thanks everyone for the response and effort. Definitely help me.

Hello, I have some ideas on how I want to intraday trade CL and/or TF. I have only forward test this method the past 1-2 months during and after market hours with good success (decent weekly profits). I have good logic skills, but don't know the first step on testing software or programming. I...

Thank you Xela for response, I like this idea. Do you have any reference material you can recommend where I can study how to detect swing highs and lows and practice please? Thank you

Thanks for your response. That's a good idea to use Ninja Trader through market replay daily and their ATM strategy. I will give this some thoughts, cause forward testing , but ultimately I eventually need a simple way to back test my ideas. not sure where to start, but I will look.

Thanks achiles28 I would like to sit on position and let it play out. I personally do not want to add positions. I want to enter all in and all out, or all out trail. This fits my personality and my time management because I also take trades while trying to work a 9 to 5 pm. So to take a trade...

Thanks achilles, This is a good question. I enter on retraces, so I get stop out at breakeven, i will not reenter. I have been keeping data on stop market orders, and will test enter on retraces if stopped out on the stop market order.

Gotcha, Thanks for the updates. I need to update my spreadsheet. Its a bit sloppy in that column. Sorry for confusion. I would like to setup a backtesting system for now. So this is my focus.

Thanks Overnight, I manually trail like this. I enter, then wait for 20 ticks. then move stop in favor by 10 ticks from entry. Once market move another 10 ticks in favor I move another 10 ticks. I do this til break even. Out of about 40 trades, the most I got was 50 ticks. I honestly just...

Thank you for advice Overnight, I agree, the pre determined targets I have data to show leave profit on the table. I first believe in if I risk 20 ticks (stop loss), i need to set my target (profit) at 40 ticks for the trade to make sense for r:r greater then 1. So what I would like to do...

Thank you Xela for your advice and comments. I will review you book because my brain is wired (or maybe my experiences) to trade systematically and in probabilities. for instances, i am a fan of risk vs reward trading, this i why I favor all in all out. But I have also been testing and...