Greetings Everyone,
Well today was a lot of picking up table scraps after the real move was underway. I missed the smash me in the face short in the morning, and again found myself one step behind on the trend. The good news is that with volume leading the way, most of my trades were in the green, I was just holding for the rip out that never ended up coming.... until I wasn't paying attention of course
AM:
I thought this morning went well.
1. I missed the glorious short while trading the ES.
2. The next two longs matched my setup pretty closely, so I'm not bummed that they didn't explode. Both were in the green comfortably, but I was hoping for a screaming reversal that never materialized. Lately the ES and CL have been tracking very closely, so I should have known better since I wasn't getting any long signals on the the ES.
3. I had to try this short twice. The HUGE volume was the clue for me. I remembered yesterday how the huge volume coming in didn't hold the market up at all, so my thinking was similar here. This worked out pretty well.
PM:
AREA1: Got a setup, took it, and it failed. When it failed I just reversed and that trade went well. I tried to hold a second contract for a bleeder and that didn't pan out.
AREA2: I got a long signal and took it. This trade took forever to materialize, but finally got there. I held through the chop because the last major swing was not violated, and volume never came in to the downside.
Net after commisisons: 22 ticks