Sell NAS100USD x -41
Closed +160
Closed +160
Snuskpelle's CFD Adventures 2020
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Monitored through last hour. Very interesting spike right before start of corona virus press conference half an hour before close. Felt "instant" but took 40 s; I am not comfortable trying to enter on such fast signals.
All in all, losing trades when feeling very rushed sitting in an office pretending to be working (nah, I don't think someone minds there but I still have that feeling). Winning trades when I got home (even when a bit tired). No home runs at all (i.e. trades that can be added to in trend following fashion) so just pointless noise on the whole, but it's nice not to be down for the day.
All in all, losing trades when feeling very rushed sitting in an office pretending to be working (nah, I don't think someone minds there but I still have that feeling). Winning trades when I got home (even when a bit tired). No home runs at all (i.e. trades that can be added to in trend following fashion) so just pointless noise on the whole, but it's nice not to be down for the day.
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Closing January post:
I was enormously happy at the beginning of January with the great money from the Iran attacks. After that I have just been trading noise, which is not that awesome given the very plentiful trade opportunities given by corona virus. I really need to look into how to increase my entries (systematic scanning for potential trends above all). I've also been too lazy (and afraid) in starting algos capturing beta, and my decision to close my (XAU+XAG)/XCU pair trade algo also looks bad in retrospect (backtest over the period algo would have been active if left running shows sharpe 6.1).
I don't expect immediate improvements on the above as I've taken on a lot of extra work (helping my father with pushing his business into production), so working on various stuffs whenever I'm awake won't really help my trading in Feb.
CFD provider app PL attached. Normalized return in my own tax calculation app I'm coding appears off, so have to look further into that...
I was enormously happy at the beginning of January with the great money from the Iran attacks. After that I have just been trading noise, which is not that awesome given the very plentiful trade opportunities given by corona virus. I really need to look into how to increase my entries (systematic scanning for potential trends above all). I've also been too lazy (and afraid) in starting algos capturing beta, and my decision to close my (XAU+XAG)/XCU pair trade algo also looks bad in retrospect (backtest over the period algo would have been active if left running shows sharpe 6.1).
I don't expect immediate improvements on the above as I've taken on a lot of extra work (helping my father with pushing his business into production), so working on various stuffs whenever I'm awake won't really help my trading in Feb.
CFD provider app PL attached. Normalized return in my own tax calculation app I'm coding appears off, so have to look further into that...
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Sell NAS100USD x -21 @ 9007 stop 9032
Think we begin night bearish despite lack of panic opening. At least willing to make small bet on it.
Edit: unfortunately fairly shit timed so we'll see
Think we begin night bearish despite lack of panic opening. At least willing to make small bet on it.
Edit: unfortunately fairly shit timed so we'll see
Closed -340, better to take loss and try later (stop was at -600). Horrible entry timing by chance
Not in mint condition but I wanted to be up for China market open as that will show some direction.
Not in mint condition but I wanted to be up for China market open as that will show some direction.
-224 on China A50 long.
(somehow, GF waking up exactly seconds prior and making shitloads of noise doesn't help)
(somehow, GF waking up exactly seconds prior and making shitloads of noise doesn't help)
lol China banning short selling for the day
Buy China A50 x 19
Closed -309
Closed -309
Buy China A50 x 19
Nah close -409, I'm done today. Brain not in sync with market behavior
Edit: MFE about +450 on this trade IIRC. Could easily have closed at zero which I would have been appropriate given MFE.
Edit: MFE about +450 on this trade IIRC. Could easily have closed at zero which I would have been appropriate given MFE.
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