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I am convinced the poster overnight is a teenage girl. Yaps like a toy poodle. Completely obsessed with me. Sorry I don't date teenage girls.

There is a lot of money to be made during this session. Look into buying the US cash close and selling the cash open. Do some research. Here is a nice article. The Stock Market Works by Day, but It Loves the Night - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

One more thing I learned from a mentor. If you can't make money on a simulator, you most certainly won't make money trading with a live real money account.. Have a plan, have a system, record your thoughts in a journal. Over time you will learn. I spent a lot of time here from 2005-2011 goofing...

I don't see any trades on Saturday. I learned years ago, no matter what you say and post here, there will always be those who will cast doubt no matter what. I have a very wealthy speculator in oil and gas industry here in Dallas who is going to bank roll me in 2022 with up to 10 million, To...

If you watch a price ladder closely you will notice what appears to bid and offers in a fairly tight spread. There are numerous ways to fool folks into believing these bids and offers are legit. Things are not what they seem.

I don't consider slippage a problem, it's just a fixed cost that must be accepted. There simply is no way to totally avoid the spread. Just as there is no way to avoid commissions. We can always work to mitigate these factors, but that's about it.

I find it's better to over allow for slippage. what some folks might not realize, as you near contract roll over, which start's this Thursday slippage becomes much worse. I have found over the years it's better to over estimate your slippage when designing trading systems with futures.

NQ

Im not sure what your referring to when you say "why'd you switch from full NQ contracts"

Weekly

That is discretionary trading. This is a fully automated system.

I will continue to monitor this system going forward. No adjustments have been made for over 12 months. To my surprise it continues to perform well. I keep waiting for back to back monthly losses to occur. Some months start out losing and i think to myself, it's going to crash now, but it always...

Slippage is thru the roof running micro contracts. If it took fewer trades that would be a possibility.

This is not a back-tested creation. I've tried that, with some success. In the end, these back-tested creations always fell apart. I guess you could say this is over a decade of staring at stock index futures and putting it together. It may very well fall apart but hasn't yet.