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Indeed Zandty - Lots of posts but I don't SEE very many daily results being posted, do you ?

Great call Zandty !!

Thanks for that FX....I'm going to start using trailing stops. Somehow I've had a phobia against them.....LOL. I guess every trader has a weakness or two.

Yes, the objective is reached , but it ends-up less than the optimal amount that would have occurred if I held longer. Part of the problem is that I've been using mostly market orders and sometimes limit orders. I use stop orders only to get OUT of a losing trade..never to enter into a trade...

Ah that one trade I cut short...went on to double....patience, patience. I need more of that....and better stop loss placement, that's for sure. Top/bottom ticking is no fun....but the algos love it !!

Small amount of trades = small amount of fees and commission.

Got really lucky today...as I was short the huge afternoon rally in NQ. I withstood a $2000 drawdown on that trade and was lucky to end-up with a small profit. Whew, that was a sweat-out trade. Other trades included the usual "top tick" stop loss out deal....boy do I hate those. But they're...

When you have a Nutso in the Whitehouse, you're going to have a Nutso market....guaranteed.

Wild and crazy action this Friday afternoon.....it's unbelievable. Big swing up @ 2:55 pm, followed by a retracement down at 3:30 pm. Man, the big boys with the algos are at work....big time.

Thanks to the algos. Buy programs in full force. But they are so stupid as they can't "see" a China Tariff no-deal is coming up September 1st.

Indeed - ES 2871 -> 2881 in 10 minutes. Followed by ES 2883 -> 2875 in 10 minutes after RTH. Wow - emotional market for sure.

Shorts are getting their balls busted today......typical retracement rally.

2 to 8 contracts...depending on price action and market conditions. Stops are set by price patterns. Usually a 1:2 risk/reward ratio on average. I'm looking for 6 to 20 ticks as a profit target....ES or NQ.

Could have done much better....Trade score still below zero....not good. Still....I'm beating those F'ing lawyers in terms of rate-per-hour....to some extent.

Discipline required today due to the volatility.

Wild day...one hour of trading. Let's keep this volatility up.

Yeah Zandty....I'm with you. It's simple stuff to export a trading blotter to Excel. Most platforms support this functionality.

No date/time on the X-Axis......can't really see this effect.

Ah...then that helps Terry Duffy to justify the current fee structure. I see the Shanghai exchange is way behind and only offers options on the ETF50. No futures in sight there....Chicago fully in control here.

So now the question is : How do the foreign exchanges compare fee-wise to the CME ? I am thinking Eurex, Hang Seng, Nikkei, etc.