Snuskpelle's (kind of) Intraday Adventures 2019

Up considerably, now +$1600 since early June algo start. Putting that in comparison to the ~1950$ (depending on EUR/USD) until June this approach is already looking a lot better. Time to rock now that I have a way of dealing with discipline issues.

Need to continue work on and improve (currently near non-existing) market timing into my dumb volatility adjusting algos though as inevitably I'm going to suffer a 6k$ drawdown on a really bad Black Swan day, and leaving that tail risk to avoid with discretionary algo stopping is basically a bad idea (TM).

Wish I figured out I could easily add manual positions to algo accounts earlier because the gold rally above 1300 would have been easy to participate in, but hindsight hindsight.
 
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Closing down the more sensitive of my two algos since everything went well, too well since Tuesday. Planning to trade NFP on Friday unless I manage to sleep that over. Leaving other algo open so still got some exposure to equities/bonds through NFP.

Up by $2k since early June. Didn't keep track closely since I'm now on multiple sub-accounts, but suspect I will see new NAV highs soon. Obviously I will never hit the lofty goal I set at start of year, but ending year at $30k (+10k) would be cool. Mostly depends on upcoming market behavior though: Major crash in Autumn would be neat since I now have good tools to trade it. :D
 
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Changed my mind and decided to liquidate last algo as well. Don't want to wake up late with a surprise after NFP, and it will be easier to trade NFP with all monies in one sub-account.

Edit: NAV $24115 now that all figures are summed. A bit more until new account high (IIRC somewhere back in thread I was at 22.x k EUR).
 
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Overnight said:
Keep an eye out carefully this week, it could get rough on the news front.
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Hmm true, then again the algo is adjusting position size to volatility so as to not wreck account in case the turn of events refuses to cooperate. Well, I'd rather not sit through a <-2% decline admittedly.
 
Well, was too early on this one (-500 unrealized, most from NQ part). Anyway, shit Monday was reasonably probable scenario so it's fine. My decision to enter early out of greed maybe less so.

Edit. Losses trimmed a fair amount, leaving laptop as rest of day might be quite boring.
 
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