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Long NQ and HK33. A bit late in because of tabbing out away briefly. :( Edit: Oh yeah patience would have paid off.

Hong Kong futures down curiously despite a strong show during night. No super tradable data, will join any trends developing on a whim.

Going to bed. Might well be that markets are higher when I wake up, but not going to leave algo running to bet on that... Edit: And yeah, HK33 is nicely trendy now. Wonder if it will be 1% from where I exited when I wake up. :D

Long algo HK33HKD. Edit: Closed for -9, not behaving trendy enough (looks like risk of backlash). My algo scaling in at optimistic points eradicating the paper gains I had. Then again, it's a feature of the algo (just catch the super trends, exit everything else with small loss).

Closed all, back to original NAV. Awaiting market open behavior before re-entry.

Long HK33HKD now too. Took a -50 hit from NQ position scaling up at peak on top of hour and proceeding to get stopped, should ignore that though.

It's due to market microstructure; your limit order will sit for (what in comparison is an) eternity on a given price level, during which HFTs can make a lot of trades. In particular, HFT algos can use your order as "insurance" to make for them great R/R bets. A concrete example: If you have a...

Somewhat muted start. Keeping algo on until HK open, I might reverse direction if necessary then. However, I'm guessing this will be an up day.

Long trend algo NAS100USD Hoping BTFD mood last at least three hours from now. If it switches to panic then I can always press short button.

Medium's trading articles as shit as a rule (possibly there is some exception). Hope you can improve their level. I don't really agree on a bunch of the points in OP however.

Nope, -20. NAV 20506 which will be my close today.

Trying algo long here, NQ.

Actually, closed at +5, I'm seriously late into this.

Got home, starting short on NQ here (might be too late, but we'll see).

I'm out for -5 in total, some sub-positions knocked when going to bathroom. MFE near 20700. NAV 20522 Maybe I should just have left it open but TBH this day isn't being very suitable for my algo so leaving until later.

Long algo on both NAS100USD and DE30EUR

Will go long NQ later too if opportunity presents itself. Right now I'm a bit afraid of enough people considering this to be a wedge breakout down though.

Trying long algo DE30EUR instead, less silly than NQ

If this clears at open ceiling then I go in again. Was too much mean reverting so far.

Algo long again. And stopped at -35. Won't continue this, market not really effective for algo (or the reverse).