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Yep. Definitely need to add more swing trades in my toolkit. I'm getting better at intraday trend trading(not microscalping but intraday trends). But one good swing trade can be more than days worth of gains for intraday trend trading. :)

Just to clarify. I captured 12 pts overnight. Then made 3 pts intraday. Had I just held from beginning to now it would have a total of 32pts. WOW. Gotta learn to be more patient with swing trades. But on the positive side, I'm getting better at trading everyday. Even now overnight I banged out...

wow. Had I just held on instead of being a stupid daytrader and got out last night I would have been up another 11pts! Crazy! This morning I got in then took a small loss. Proud of that. It reversed. In the past I would not cut losses fast. Then of course it rallied hard. And I bit the bullet...

Stupid me. I got out late last night because I have such a day trader mentality. Missed out on another 5 points move. I knew from the chart it would go higher. Yet I was being a tick hound and scared of a small pull back. sometimes I feel daytrading is a waste of time! Some of my biggest gains...

still holding it...

Having said that, I actually bought GC futures late yesterday. Glad I did. It rallied hard. :)

Gold is such a sad sad asset. Even as market is tanking it still didn't rally hard. WTF? So much for safe haven status. Every time US Dollar rallies, gold shits in its pants.

Another good morning. Trading both MNQs and NQs. The way I use MNQ is to get an average price. If it bounces around I will try to get filled multiple prices. In the past, I tried to fill at a precise price which sometimes is not possible. Also that's not how one can scale. So buying at multiple...

I love MNQs! Hanging out all day for the holiday. Just came home. Turned on bought a bunch of MNQs and flip it for profits. ka-ching.

thanks for the feedback!

how about this https://www.brenexa.com/? Just found this from googling.. Do you know about it?

Thanks for the suggestion. But does OnDemand have historical data going back 5-10 years? I'm looking for a market replay/trade simulator with tick level data going back 5 to 10 years. Web based is even better but not required. http://www.tradingsimulator.net/ looks good but I think the...

I use tradingsim.com to practice my trading and it has improved my real trading. However, I was wondering if anyone here on ET knows of a similar service that shows down to tick or at least seconds level charts? Tradingsim only does 1minute chart. And the playback is not superrealistic in my...

My experience with MNQ has been the opposite. It has helped me immensely! I've actually made decent small profits trading MNQs. It helped me cement good trading habits. Before I would be shaken out of noises in the big contract. But with MNQ I can see through the noise and ride the bigger trend...

It's ok. You can keep your $100. haha. I thought the challenge was going to be bigger. It's not worth our time. I rather focus on trading well. thanks for the offer. But it's ok.

While not part of the fray, I'm finally getting better at trading NQ and MNQ futures. NQ just 1 lot. MNQ futures from 1 to 5 lots. I like the idea of your challenge as a source of motivation for me to trade hard and trade well. Maybe we can set up a mini competition here on ET. please let me...

Finally. Captured 13.26 points on the full NQ contract! I was scalping around then finally got on board and rode it. I should have gotten back for another 20 pts ride. If I can bang out 50-100 NQ points a day then I should be fine.. Good to be working from home today. hehe.

Started trading on the full NQ contract today. Just scalping. Too scared to hold longer. But with practice I will hold as long as the MNQs. Same idea. But the P&L swings are so much bigger...

That's cool. So, what are you doing in the meantime to generate income? I'm assuming you have a job? :)

I'm doing OK. Improving on my craft. Practicing my micro-edges and executing them in real life. So cool to see it plays out correctly. Working hard to cement my thinking habits and execution before I scale up. I was reviewing my old bad trades. Whew! Ugly! The way I think about trades, trends...