Free Simulated Combine + Real Journal **ES/NQ futures**

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5/3/19 post review
Bounce off 2900 area in yesterdays trading for another success for BTD traders $ES currently trading 2926.

$NQ $NQ_F

$ES $ES_F

 

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5/7/19 post market

e-micros are here
economic events
MONDAY, MAY 6
None scheduled
TUESDAY, MAY 7
10 am Job openings March -- 7.1 mln
3 pm Consumer credit March -- $15 bln
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8
None scheduled
THURSDAY, MAY 9
8:30 am Weekly jobless claims 5/4 215,000 230,000
8:30 am Trade deficit March -$50.0B -$49.4B
8:30 am Producer price index April 0.2% 0.6%
10 am Wholesale inventories March -- 0.2%
FRIDAY, MAY 10
8:30 am Consumer price index April 0.4% 0.4%
8:30 am Core CPI April 0.2% 0.1%
2 pm Federal budget April -- $214 bln

Trump announced 25% tariff on more china goods that were currently at 10% we seem to be chopping back and forth 2880-2900. I guess no one believes that this drop will last long.

ES

V: 1,300,108 OI: 2,665,584(+7,457) <--normal volume nice addition to OI

Friday ended with a long bias from the action

NQ
V: 454,602 OI: 221,879(+9,959)

4hr

 

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5/8/19

NQ
v:840,113 OI: 210,967(-3,556)

ES
V: 2,821,407 OI: 2,645,845(-7,949) <-- double the normal volume
sold off massive and recovered about half of it overnight no movement I guess its all going to hinge on the China talks

 

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5/9/19 pre-market review

economic events
8:30 am Weekly jobless claims 5/4 218,000 230,000
8:30 am Trade deficit March -$50.1B -$49.4B
8:30 am Producer price index April 0.3% 0.6%
8:30 am Jerome Powell speaks
10 am Wholesale inventories March -- 0.2%
10:45 am Raphael Bostic speaks
1:15 pm Charles Evans speaks

$NQ_F $NQ
V: 622,722 OI: 214,901(+6,019)


$ES_F $ES
V: 2,052,114 OI: 2,635,616(-7,227) <-- massive volume

 

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5/10/19 premarket

economic events

ES
V: 2,713,015 OI: 2,647,311(+10,394) <-- massive volume

NQ
V: 742,015 OI: 218,316(+5,687)

 

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5/16/19

Economic events
8:30 am Weekly jobless claims 5/11 212,000 217,000 228,000
8:30 am Housing starts April 1.235mln 1.209mln 1.168mln
8:30 am Building permits April 1.296mln 1.291mln 1.288mln
8:30 am Philly Fed manufacturing index May 16.6 10.1 8.5
12:05pm Neel Kashkari speaks
12:15pm Lael Brainard speaks

Trump tweets that they will not tax auto sales that was planned and the market rallied
NQ
V: 537,052 OI: 220,126(+3,666)
overnight

ES
V: 1,759,972 OI: 2,656,300(-4,027)
overnight flirting with YC

 

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5/17/19 premarket
Economic events
10 am Consumer sentiment index May 97.1 97.2
10 am Leading economic indicators April -- 0.4%
12:15pm John Williams speaks
1:45 pm Richard Clarida speaks
2 pm John Williams speaks

The prior day appeared to be a straight up rally day until around 2pm down from $ES_F 94 YH

NQ
V: 526,471 OI: 222,722(+5,434)

overnight

ES
V: 1,697,880 OI: 2,660,395(+10,216)

overnight: lower

 

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5/20/19 post review

I made 1 trade with 2 contracts in $MES short at what was a swing low at the time.

the market started down and found buyers for another dip IB high was broken slightly IB low remained in tatic wide IB range in ES

ES
zones

5/21/19 pre market review
economic events
7:50am Raphael Bostic speaks
10 am Existing home sales April 5.35mln 5.21 mln
10:45am Charles Evans speaks
12:10pm Eric Rosengren speaks
11 pm James Bullard speaks

ES
V: 1,664,041 OI: 2,665,260(+6,292) normal volume

 

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5/22/19 post review
my bias was short was watching 45s took the trade on what i thought was strength to the downside though it was kind of late got stopped out.


Day type: Normal Day we opened to what looked like a open drive starting off negative
NQ

ES

 

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5/23/19
NQ

ES