How to properly trade the opening drive?

Renzo said:
This is crazy hard! I suffer from intense analysis paralysis! I've picked 2 winners out of 4 trades. It's kind of discouraging. I'm using smart stops, but all that means is I won't die suddenly but rather of a thousand tiny cuts. Comforting.

You're over trading then or picking the wrong stocks from a trading perspective. I can only handle 1 or 2 stocks max at open and I only trade the same 10 stocks.

pragmatic-trader said:
What kind if confirmation after 3-5 minutes are you looking for
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Index comparisons, breakouts/breakdowns, volume.
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pragmatic-trader said:
I have a few ideas:

- Enter premarket based on a thesis and hold into the open
- Use a stop limit order to enter the trade if the price spikes in the direction you expect off the open
- Follow the move X seconds after open
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How to properly trade the opening drive?

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I have a few ideas:

- Enter premarket based on a thesis and hold into the open
- Use a stop limit order to enter the trade if the price spikes in the direction you expect off the open
- Follow the move X seconds after open
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Well?
How'd you Do?

Here's a relatively cheap way to get a read on what can happen, and we all would like to see that.

So why not trade one mnq contract using your setup?

You could first 'Ballpark' what you expect by looking over some Very Fast Charts or Numbers that represented what HappenED over a period of time, say, 10 or so opens.

From this quick and dirty look under the hood, you could guestimate a range of numbers to give you an idea of what this expeirment could cost to try out.

Slippage and fills would seem to be important for this method, no?

It would be interesting to see if timed exits and or targeted exits can take advantage of the opening chaos to provide fills in the favor of the method.

Go For It! but you might want to stand behind a large oak tree trunk when you pull the string to fire off the trade, just in case the breech don't hold.

the mnq is a high volume, low priced product made for this test.
 
easymon1 said:
How to properly trade the opening drive?

...the mnq is a high volume, low priced product made for this test.
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The range in Jun MNQ from midnight E.T. until now is 335 points. And it dropped 200ish from the RTH open only to close RTH up 100ish.

These are not normal times. Man.
 
easymon1 said:
How long was OP gonna hold that trade?
What's the min, max, mean, average, of the mnq for that time and duration.
now, how's it look ?
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On a day-to-day basis? It's all over the place! Very hard to get a mean when the median jumps around all over the place. 100 points yesterday, 300 points today, 400 points tomorrow. Oh, we're on vacation? 30 points today. Yikes!
 
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