Cooltraderdude's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade report and journal)

Quote from NDJeff02:

I started trading Nov today. To always be in the right month just look at the T4 DOM and trade whichever month has the most volume.
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Isn't there a page at the CME that tells you that...?
 
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Isn't there a page at the CME that tells you that...?
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I'm sure there probably is but the only thing I'm trading right now is crude. I just make sure I know when rollover is coming and then switch to the new month the first day that the volume is higher. That's why I switched to Nov this morning.
 
Quote from NDJeff02:

I'm sure there probably is but the only thing I'm trading right now is crude. I just make sure I know when rollover is coming and then switch to the new month the first day that the volume is higher. That's why I switched to Nov this morning.
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Allright... thank you...

I'm looking at crude right now Nov. 12... Been really volatile to the down side today...!!!
 
Yup, crude has had a nice trend all morning. Have you gone into the chat room at TST yet? There are lots of good traders in the rooms who are always sharing ideas. If you're just starting out in futures then just have one of the rooms up and observe what the guys are doing who make money.
 
Quote from NDJeff02:

Yup, crude has had a nice trend all morning. Have you gone into the chat room at TST yet? There are lots of good traders in the rooms who are always sharing ideas. If you're just starting out in futures then just have one of the rooms up and observe what the guys are doing who make money.
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Allright...

I'm going to the crude room...!:)
 
I don't now how exactly the rules work in regard to product selection. But dude, you said you traded equities for 10 years. You know that volatility is very cyclical, so sometimes Crude is very tradeable, other times its the grains, metals, and even the indices.

People that are making blanket statements about a products action are being misleading. Crude has be a choppy mess for a month and a half. We know that a contraction in vol usually leads to an expansion. Two days ago you had a large range day in crude, so hey look at crude. The indices have their moments when they are very tradeable. ES has had a huge run and you are getting some digestion...intraday action will likely be very choppy!

I'm not trying to lecture you as you said that you have experience. Maybe you are a little rusty, but these are basics man!
 
Quote from CoolTraderDude:

Isn't there a page at the CME that tells you that...?
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Volume often shifts to the next month before the last trading day of the front month contract, and sometimes like for Gold it shifted to the December contract at the end of July skipping the October contract.

If you want to know real time have a chart or quotesheet open with volumes shown. If you want to know the next day the CME Group Settlement page will give you the volumes.

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/crude-oil/light-sweet-crude_quotes_settlements_futures.html
 
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