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About 40 trades round trip.

I now wrap up 2 months of trading futures live. It has been an interesting journey of boom and bust cycles. I make money for a few weeks with some intraday trades or some swing trade ideas, then give a bunch back on one bad idea, rebuild up again then once again get caught wrong and give back...

Very nice post. You are one of my favorite posters on this forum :fistbump:.

Ive also had a 5 figure gain on a stock that gapped up 30% on earnings. Not doing that anymore though.

You should make this into an anonymous poll. I'm guessing most will be somewhere in the 4 digits if trading futures.

I love northern thailand. Hard to beat if you enjoy mountains.

Im shorting as a swing trade. Started shorting today. Dont have the best average price but it will do.

I mostly trade CL, sometimes NQ or ES as well. Swing and intraday. Love your country and everything has to offer. Hoping I can manage to stay here for at least a few years.

The spreads on these stocks can be 25 to 50 cents. Its so sketchy to trade them.

CL has been having some amazing Daily ATR lately. There is money to be made day trading... Make no mistakes about it. :D

Are your stops too tight? Also you can be right less than 50% of the time as long as your winners are much larger than your losers.

Why not ignore all the bullshit and just read the charts ? ? ?

Markets move from areas of demand to supply, testing and retesting until zones are exhausted then break out and on to the next zones of supply and demand. All can be found by looking left. Call it accumulation/ distribution or what ever.

Rocket, have you tried trading CL?

You are probably right, but there were a few trades in NQ or CL that if I were not to be available at the first two hours of London session I would have gave up most if not all of my open P&L. Obviously this is more of an issue if you take trades counter the bigger picture trend.

I've done the no sleep thing, or at least a "nap" between US close and Asia open. It's most important to be available from London Open onward anyway. I think its worth it if you can make a few thousand bucks ... not worth it if you end up losing.

When you say Martingale do you mean doubling up your bet every consecutive loss? Or just scaling into trades as they go against you?

Ive done it too. You need to be very strict about honoring your uncle point. One loss can wipeout a weeks work.

If there is no reversal signal by EOD why close a trade instead of letting it mature the following day or days? Trends can persist for a while. I guess reasons can be not enough margin to hold overnight or just simply the desire to have a good nights sleep.

To each their own... I had a great time solving the riddles for the pdf's in the start of the thread. Also did pick up a few bits from chatting with Mr.Scalper. I am a sucker for puzzles...I guess thats one of the draws of the market, the best ever evolving and changing point and click...