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Joined in 2009. Haven't been here since 2017. Left the trading biz that I was involved in from 2001-2014. Went into tangible asset management. Still at that game. And now find myself back dabbling in the Index Futs when the mood strikes me. What did I miss? Crispy.

Oh good. I own amibroker. I guess I've never seen it because I don't write my systems on that. Excellent news thank you I employ it similarly. I also design risk solely around certain averages and rolling wins/losses of the system.

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Long time no post... MFE and MAE are metrics I used to manually track in excel. However, I dont have the time for that anymore. So, I need something plug and play into my IB account. Or even an FCM reco of a firm that tracks these in their software. Thanks folks.

Losing traders are a particularly litigious bunch. Any gap, news, halt or other act other than one of God opens up the opportunity for the shifting of blame onto the executing broker. I understand the Why.

Nothing done yday. Didnt even look at screens. Back at it today a bit.

12 10 14 6 trades. 4 losers. 1 winner. 1 scratch. -22.74 avg loss. 124.80 win. 29.79 net Another interesting day. 2-(BWA,DRI)straight up losers from start to finish. 1- (PX)I mistakenly placed the stop to tight, and that cost me $30 net by days end, never tapped the proper one, those are the...

Wouldn't you need a much larger sample size to even start to think that what you see in that win column has ANY meaning at all. It just seems to me that to even talk about "my average winner" makes no sense at all ... at this stage. In short of course you are right. But, I was referencing avg...

Strong stocks are for buying. And weak stocks are for selling. But sometimes its all chop to me. 8 trades. 7 losers. 1 winner. 1 scratch...went 1% my way set stop to BE, came back to entry. 24.82 avg loss. 72.90 avg win. -101 net. Good thing for the one winner I was able let have some...

12 8 14 Only able to trade for about 2 hours today. 4 trades. 2 Wins 2 Losses. Netted 8.37. I would say at this pace that by Jan 15th I have some good information to build on regarding how I think stocks are trading. And how to approach better, more importantly.

Fridays finals were +22 net on three winners. Hit rate thus far 57%. Avg win .183 Avg loss -.125. Will re-eval stop distance after about 50 trades in blotter. Right now stops set at 1/2% for protection. But so far avg MAE on wins is -.18%. Id bet ultimately I can tighten to around -.375% and...

Bot 66 EXPE @ 91.35. SLD @ 91.85. Volume spike after highs printed brought on the near term sellers sold around there -------------------------------------------- 3 open bums... Sld 216 AGNC @ 22.65 - 7.00 here Bot 169 PWR @ 30.24 -25.00 here Bot 230 VIPS @ 22.19 - 7.00 here

Yesterday I put two more on after finding the real time report window. Everything looks ok. Time and tick working fine so no margin BS pops up. Began tracking metrics in excel sheet. Ending days result @ -22.21 net.

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Test fire one down range... bot 186 MTSI @ 27.40. 27.26 stop One only today. Want to make sure things settle up correctly and commission is proper. etc...

Battling the TWS download with some strange Javaw.exe pop block...

yes I am assuming only 25k base cap. I misplaced decimal. 1/10th of a % per. yes, metrics will be analyzed every 100 trades and adjusted accordingly. I dont proclaim to know everything. But I know this in an expert fashion - when I get a winner it barely goes against me. Fixed % stop position...

I am going to journal my daily PnL and thoughts for awhile. Maybe a month, maybe more. I deposited $26,000 @ IB. I am giving myself $1000 draw down before I would pull the plug. There will be 100% discretionary entries. I have things I look for based on scans. When I see something I like I...

I did. But avg pnl per car was still small. I would need to swing 100 cars per trade to realistically re-create the income I need to make a full go at it. I got the new split. Officially ending my participation in this thread now./

I dont mind being an open book in regards to some things. But I will not talk money. That being said - Yes, I scaled up. My personal risk management plan allowed for 1 ES per every 1000 earned. And vice versa I scaled back on DD`s. They were more liberal I think. I could have sized faster. I...