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long 956.50, 5 pt stop, pa target

When a strategy is employed to enhance the returns of an underlying long, correlated portfollio I find some room for exception with your assessment. However, if one is trading to "grow" an undercapitalized account I agree with you. Additionally per earlier posts, not all trade management or...

exit 76.50

short 81.50, 2.5 pt stop, 75.50 target

exit all 77

short 985.50, 3 pt stop, 10 pt 1st target.

short 978, 4 pt stop, target 62 or pa.

Look at the yield curve used to calculate fv.

long 77.25, stop 73, pt 90+

Now I lost 39 total points. For illustrative purposes I will exhibit the mistakes in that trade. 1st, entering before 1 pm on a friday, op exp at that. 2nd, not waiting for additional key pivot or pa to confirm entry. Lastly not exiting on the initial pullback or on bullish pa. Now...

reversal pt 52.50 if no expanding downside volitility on 5 or 15 min timeframes.

agreed, as I posted when using time based or pa based stops they cannot be posted in advance, hence disregard all my trades that do not conform to the standards of the journal. again, bb asked what I did here, what did I contribute? just trying to contribute per his post for illustrative...

stops not hit.

I don't seek understanding or approval g but thank you for your concern. Nor am I seeking vidication in my results, they are what they are, p or l. I will be the first to admit the orginal 2 entries were flawed due to time of day, I understand humility and do not have stigma or shame of...

stops at 975, 39 pts!

nq and es at price projections, adding es 66.

added 62

started shorting 59.50 plan as before.

How timely, it's done! 15-Oct-2008 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhibits Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement On October 10, 2008, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ("CME"), a wholly owned subsidiary of CME Group Inc...

cme is in the process of extending credit lines, not sure where the process is but I assume lending banks demand greater margins as debt is collatoralized by margin on deposit of fcms.