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-2000 for this one, -3000 for 100k w/+6500 min upside

it takes me time to type... and I've been outside all day since I ceased trading at 2pm until dinnertime now. Back outside until dark, gotta enjoy summertime to the fullest while it's here :)

16 contracts turned (all short) for -825 & -80 trade costs / -905 total. I had two breakout short trades go +2pts in favor and come back out for -1pt each. The rest of that tally was 1 - 2 contract probes short at pullbacks, trying to catch a downswing with some size but no adds were...

For as many years as I can recall... prior to 2013... the rare times you would see two consecutive gap-open moves in the same direction, it was high odds one or both gaps would be filled intraday. But thru the first half of 2013, that historical gap-rule statistic has been ruled null and...

Because I am not interested in a TST funded account trading 1 - 2 CL contracts... there is no point in that for me. Nor am I interested in trading 20, 40 or 50 CL contracts in block fashion consistently over time. Yes it makes vertical moves some days. Yes those moves are predictable to...

this completes my time here today... have some office tasks to complete and then gone from screens until tomorrow morning. Nine days left (or more) to work with... same modus every day. Sit - watch - wait for measured moves, manage the trades, keep losses small and contained, quit while...

Mav (et el) by no means am I disparaging CL for trading potential: I'm simply not interested in trading 20 - 40 contracts of that thru days like this... I cannot keep losses small enough when it chops hard. as noted before: my goal is to qualify for a funded account and trade that...

thank you, "Risk" :) luck always plays a part... but I have to do my parts well enough for luck to prevail <grin>

Well, that may very well be the case. No one knows anything about the future for sure. But if I'm going to trade anything in multiple size, it's going to be ES. Otherwise I'll stick with a couple of CL or TF contracts and that's that :)

I thought I answered that, but must be not. The answer is "no" I did not meet the goals for past combines based on CL in whole or part. The reasons for that are overlapped. Part of it is split focus on trading cash alongside sim. Part of it is trading two symbols across two different platforms...

Mav, in the past CL used to oscillate and range thru several wide swings per day, more days than not. It was consistently the most ranging symbol in methodical fashion, albeit wild in its own way. but as of last fall sometime, the average price behavior changed. Rather than directional...

$50k which technically is "easier" than the $100k to meet specific qualification of minimum profit gains. $3500 on the 50k would be $7000 on the $100k to be equal in degree of effort for that particular qualification. The limitation of $50k is a relatively small risk limits. I have a...

So basically, I'm simply working 2-lot to 5-lot orders as price action (and equity balance) dictates for small to modest-sized targeted gains. The overall concept is to catch directional swings thru defined trend zones for +4 to +8 index points, maybe bigger in an abrupt spike or surge move but...

at this stage of my career, I'm not interested in a primary symbol that requires me to chase for fills, try to catch spike moves that blow thru action zones, deal with partial fills on performing trades while absorbing slippage on stopped out trades. if the TST program offered Russell 2000...

there was a time that when asked which market or symbol is "best" for trading, I'd offer a firm opinion depending on what seemed best at the time. The term "best" meaning liquidity and volatility and methodical movement. awhile ago, I realized there is no single "best" market or symbol for...

yes, I did a couple of them using CL in part or whole. That was right around the time CL went thru the liquidity transition from what it used to be into what it has been since last fall. At the same time from then to the first part of this year I've juggled focus on CL (my personal preference)...

I chose to work with ES only in this combine for a few reasons. A lot of people opt to trade CL or other high-beta symbols that work for big profits when they work. But for myself, I simply have no desire to trade 20 or 40 or 50+ CL contract block positions in the future. That market is way too...

Monday, July 8th... Yet another gap-up open on a Monday morning for the start of trading. We've seen that literally dozens of times in the past couple years, with a majority of them remaining unfilled while price action chops sideways all session. But you never know when or where price...

likewise, best wishes to oracle and everyone else thru the program :) The biggest challenge I face with combine attempts is remaining focused thru the entire stretch knowing it is "sim" and not actual cash at that moment in time. Holding oneself accountable even with the idea that there might...

Some years are more volatile than others, and some single 1-min bars are computer-algo insanity. The intraday charts setup the way I use them confirmed sell signals ahead of the break. But signal confirms via any approach cannot forecast pending follow-thru. It just so happened that this time...