Day trading derivatives futures.

[maxinger]

cont ....

as usual, aud is immune to news.

Today's lead is sgx simsci, and to some extent hangseng

today's laggards
NQ, copper, gold, gbp ...
perhaps crude oil

anyway, I have > 5 open positions from various futures.


hmmm. trade war --> higher index futures?

usdcnh - don't know where it is going.
I better don't touch usdcnh.


who knows, India Nifty might break its record again.

hmmm. seems like germany buxl becomes an observer observing how other markets are moving.

 

[maxinger]

7 Aug US session or rather SCARY SCARY session

most asian index futures - today long blue candle
copper gold crude oil dax also up.

germany buxl is not moving; it just observe other people.

es ym rty nq day range has been shrinking.
Indeed very scary session.
We need some major events, news, or powerful tweets to move the market.

 

[maxinger]

7 Aug US session or rather SCARY SCARY session

 

[maxinger]

cont ...
market not that scary after all.
there was signal to short NQ @943p.

sigh ... missed longing YM. it went up s l oooooo w l y since Asian time.
I simply run out of monitors space. How nice if I have six 32" monitors.
YM up for 4 days.

ZB going down since Eur time.

OK. time to watch Netflix programs.

 

[traider]

Sir the charts for NQ don't seem to show the signal you are talking about. Was it the DOM or other equity indices that gave you the signal?

 

[maxinger]

Sir the charts for NQ don't seem to show the signal you are talking about. Was it the DOM or other equity indices that gave you the signal?

my signal is based on price action , chart pattern.

there was a signal to short Nasdaq futures @ 943pm GMT+8 time ie few minutes after US market opened.
It was a reversal signal and it gave healthy Reward risk ratio of 5:1 (of course
I didn't know how good RR would be when I entered).
overall NQ movement was rather jerky spiky messy.
occassionly there might be nice pattern and hence nice signal.

about half of my signals are reversal signals.

 

[maxinger]

8 Aug US session or SCARY session?

Today asian session - again Sgx Simsi lead the market down.
gold copper day chart shows it is ranging.

gbp going down, Italy btp going up.

es ym rty nq eur day range has been shrinking.
US session could be a scary session in the sense that market might give us false signals.
but then it could be CALM before the STORM?
we need powerful tweets, major events / news to improve day range.

 

[maxinger]

9 Aug SCARY session

Which markets have moved significantly past few hours ?
China A50, Hangseng, simsci,
copper, gbp, crude oil, heating oil, RB gasoline, Natural gas


Which markets have no pulse, and almost braindead?
ES YM NQ EUR JPY
to some extent USDCNH
They need Defibrillator.

copper and gold now not so buddy buddy .
I think copper now buddy buddy with Asian indices.


Now the challenging part:
After STORM,there will be CALM. So CALM for how long?
Also CALM before the STORM. So when is STORM coming?


sigh ... how to trade Russian Ruble? I am running out of monitors space.
but then the best time to trade was in end 2014.

 

[maxinger]

cont ....

today
# of good signal during asian session - 4
# of good signal during Eur session - 5
# of good signal during US session - only 2

star performer during asian session goes to China A50 and Hangseng.

star performer during Eur session goes to copper.

star performer during US session goes to Russell 2000.
Russell 2000 outstanding performance was rather predictable.
Great job Russell 2000 !


Of course, I didn't catch ALL these signals.

OK. I will wait for natural gas inventory news, then go watch Netflix.

 

[maxinger]

10 Aug Asian end of week sesssion

As usual USD based (gold, aud, jpy) wouldn't move during Asian session.
just now simci was down. great job simsci !
china A50 and hangseng movement undecisive.
as usual, ES YM NQ have zero pulse.

usdcnh - trying to go up?

strange !!! EUR ! copper ! chase after it !

my goodness. Europeans woke up so early today.
wondering what is happening.
Now the earth is spinning faster.

OK. now do post mortem.
end of week session could be very violent.
nikkei already down much earlier due to whatever reason.
usdcnh went up suddenly.
eur went down suddenly.
hangseng, US indices went down suddenly.