Day trading derivatives futures.

[maxinger]

19 oct asian session

shorted gold 920am,12815
profit : +ve. good


checking impact of China GDP news impact.
China xINHUA A50 not moving.
sometimes big boys think very hard and long. so have to wait for hours and check for reaction. I better skip my morning exercise and lunch.

signal missed :
Long Taiwan index futures @ 920am

 

[maxinger]

19 oct European session

yesterday Bund, BTP long red candle.
gold 3 red candles already.
will probably avoid DAX, AUDUSD due to its small range
energy futures seems to form close edge.

Look at how Hang Seng dive down massively.
Just subscribed data from HKFE. so unable to profit from it.

 

[maxinger]

cont ....

longed gold @253pm, 12825.
missed short gold signal @235pm.
sigh ... too engrossed setting up Hang Seng chart.
profit :40 ticks ($400 only). not ok because late entry and hence cannot use multi lots.

shorted gbpusd @3pm, 13225
profit : ok

longed eurex btp @320pm, 13685
profit : -12 ticks. OK

shorted dax @340pm, 13012
profit : good

something is happening to index futures. Wonder what that is.

ok. now for short break.
whether position profitable or not is not within my control.

signal missed :
short Hang Seng @226pm.
sigh.... must quickly setup min six 32 " monitors for trading

short crude oil 400pm

 

[maxinger]

How do I short gbpusd?

This way. If you trade with tens of lots, your profit will be thousands of dollars.
I retired. so quantity traded has been reduced.

OK. Time for afternoon exercise. then nice dinner.

Later need to review what's going to happen during US session, considering that index futures dropped alot.

 

[maxinger]

19 oct US session

animal futures have been moving.
soya, corn, wheat all sleeping. don't know when it will wake up.

most index futures were down. what's going to happen next ? absolutely no idea. must wait and see.

copper , oil, gbpusd all down.

gold has been up. now forming 2nd bull flag.

finally my Hang seng and China enterprises charts all setup already as I just paid for the data today.
will archive the violent HO and RB Gasoline futures.

 

[maxinger]

cont ...

shorted Russell 2000 @940pm, 14967
profit : ok. but trading NQ would have been better.

signal missed:
short cattle @ 936pm.

 

[truetype]

Thanks for keeping this journal. Do you track your P/L by trade, and in total?

 

[maxinger]

Thanks for keeping this journal. Do you track your P/L by trade, and in total?

definitely

 

[maxinger]

20 oct Asian session premarket analysis

yesterday HangSeng went down and many futures (oil, copper, dax, ES, NQ ....) followed.
at the same time gold went up.

market might take a rest this morning.
whatever it is, better be on alert.

will definitely focus on Asian index futures.
Its day range might not be great. Even if you target
Risk reward ratio of 1:2 only , you can earn tons of money with hugh position.


Yesterday Hang Seng dropped from 28700 to 28220.
recently it appears it is moving in small range between 28060 and 28300.

At this moment, I can't detect any patterns from currency/index/commodity markets.
perhaps everyone waiting for Hang Seng to react.


shorted Taiwan index @908am, 4043

 

[maxinger]

cont ...
taiwan index
profit : zero. ok

shorted gold @911am ,12909
profit : 35 ticks. also ok
straight forward trade.


traded Hangseng which I seldom traded. don't know why cannot set stop order.
luckily I earnt few cents. must call broker.

I doubt there will be any more signals.
So will go for early morning exercise the nice lunch.

i see that US index futures are rushing to go up