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Nope NQ stopped -610. To be fair, I had the option of exiting at neutral this morning and apparently should have taken it since there was no indication of market budging and staying short in a bull run is a losing bet. My fault for being lazy and not logging into computer to check overnight action.

Sell NAS100USD x -31 @ 8038 stop 8058 Horrendous spread this time of day but anyway... Think NQ needs to cool down a bit.

Buy NATGASUSD x 3200 @ 2.38 stop 2.13 Seasonality play, been waiting since Winter for another stab at bulling this. Might double pos later if it starts moving in my direction.

Close ca. +320 Too tired, better than nothing.

Sell NAS100USD x -28 @ 8009 stop 8024 After further consideration, intraday pos. Move just looking a bit stretched here short term.

Was not available for trading today other than multitasking. Attempted to watch UMichigan data for clues but was impossible to monitor the situation adequately for me to take a position. Oh well, there will be more days. Just sitting on one's ass long has surely been an attractive proposition...

So today has been another day where just holding on long would have made me $$$. But I think low risk attitude right now is fine, I will make such underperformance back on better days. And in the long haul I should learn options so I don't need to worry about poor price paths screwing my stops...

Staying out remainder of day, noting I'm not that sharp.

Close NAS100USD +220 XCUUSD closed for -410 Closing NQ because up move from last night looked rather weak.

XCUUSD appears to have been an idiot trade, expecting stop to be hit shortly.

Move stop 2.6357 Remains to be seen whether trade was a good idea but it suffers a high risk of stopping and then immediately reversing where it currently is, hence wider stop. Approximately risk of $400 now

Sell XCUUSD x -30000 @ 2.6222 stop 2.6291 Saw a news headline about world moving towards a glut next year, and besides I'm already bearish on copper despite its refusal to move past current S/R-line. Might extend stop a bit as I put it very narrowly if position survives for an hour.

Umm yeah great, trade hit a news bomb. Oh well, leaving stop as is as I suspect retracement from here.

I currently use candles. I would be using range bars if my platform supported them, or even better volume bars. But I don't do the kind of trading where it matters too much.

Buy NAS100USD x 4 @ 7831 stop 7782 I've been thinking about changing base bet risk from 400 to 600 for a while now, time to do it (as I keep forgetting). 400 is less than 0.8% of my account now.

Mostly a response to the post above mine putting an equal sign between effort and income. I entirely agree effort is hard to quantify except it in the US tends to be thought of as the number of hours worked, and since that's measurable it's the natural basis of a discussion. That said, the...

Implying that income inequality in general exists because some people being lazier than others is ridiculous. Those that inherit their wealth and at the same time sit in passive investments barely have to lift a finger. Yet people can work their ass of to survive and be unable to make enough to...

The obvious flaw in such simplistic reasoning there being no linear or even monotonic relationship between effort and income.

Buy NAS100USD x 10 @ 7825 stop 7782 Attempt dip buy for overnight. A bit unclear what's causing NQ-specific dip aside from technicals.

Wow NQ took a dive after my exit, glad I didn't leave this open while going AFK or similar.