HFT Impact on a Futures Retail Trader

[eS19]

I hope this works out well for you. Is it automated or manual ?

I am trading manually at the moment.

 

[bmw335isedan]

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I might considering doing some testing and playing around with the math some. Are you looking at charts or using the depth of market? If using charts, you may be able to look back and see how often your 2 tick moves would have yielded 4 ticks. If you can get your average winner to be 4 ticks and maintain your average loser at 3 ticks. Now you can have a 50% win rate and if consistent can goose the strategy with some size and make a pretty decent amount.

Seems like this is the best answer so far. I did the same thing going after 2 ticks with 3 ticks stop on ES, but it only made my broker rich. I increased my profit target to 5 ticks. It solved all the problem. If you can predict 2 ticks with high accuracy, then at least half the time your position will go to 4 ~ 6 ticks profit range. No need to take profit at 2 ticks. I always aim for 50% accuracy on 5 ticks profit target and 3 ticks stop. Good luck!