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closed 1 unit 46.25 (+2.00) stop to 44.50 (BE+0.25) on remaining 2/3 target 1/3 47.25 target 1/3 51.00

target 2/3: 47.25 target 1/3: 51.00

SIM long 44.25 stop 42.50

I've been a big proponent of reporting the average gain per contract in the past and feel it is the best metric for actual performance. I simply got lazy and didn't divide by 3. No worries, I will do this, let's move on and focus on ES. Just to clarify, my trades until recently have all...

Per unit, yes. I was posting TOTAL units, giving a metric for how many TOTAL points made, given a 1 contract per unit trade. I will clarify in futures posts the average per unit and the total. Sorry for confusion.

out for +.25 and +.25 on final 2/3, total +3.75

target 1 hit, +3.25 stop on final 2/3 to 42 (BE+0.25)

target 1: 39.00 target 2: 35.50 target 3: 31.00

sim short 42.25 stop 44.25

screw it, i'm out 42.50 on the last 1/3 so +2.00, +3.25, and +2.50 ... felt like I had been shaken out at 39.50 on the prior trade so jumped back in for the buy into the close as has been so common recently -6.00 on the last trade, +7.75 on this one, not pretty but ok

took off 1/3 at 42, 1/3 at 43.25, final 1/3 at 44.75 if we get it stop at 41.00

back in long 40.00

out 39.50 for full -2.00 on all units

simmed long 41.50 stop 40 targets 2/3 at 44.75 1/3 at 47.00 edit: make that stop 39.75

calendar my man .... FOMC minutes released 2pm

Was off by 2 ticks on a profit target earlier today, and now 1 tick here.. market just doesn't want to go quite where I want it to :)

blah, one tick from limit to close and reverse, so closed for +0.75 on all units

bought 45.75 sim, looking to close and reverse at 47.75

A good example of IMO how the market keeps traders honest. The biggest move of the day comes right in at lunch hour, from 12 to 1 EST. You think that will have some traders eating lunch at their desks in front of the screen tomorrow? Just a thought, perhaps logically unsound.

nice