Winning, Losing & BetSize trading the ES

Be sure that the markets will trade through your limit orders. For example if you have a sell limit @ 2400.00 then you should see 2400.25 prints to be sure you get filled. Also the spread will do tricks for you not getting optimal fills everytime.

Remember the LIVE situation will be different what you see in SIM.
 
Wow Thanks...Which news service is the best...this is something I need.

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Today is FOMC day. You should notice a difference in today's action compared to other days. The first 30 - 60 min will be the same but after that you will get a lot of mush until 2:00pm EST. Something to think about as you go forward.
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I am filtering time and sales for big stuff...I am putting up a second time and sales now.

Your point of sim vs. live is been a big thorn in my side as my system is very fill intensive.

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Be sure that the markets will trade through your limit orders. For example if you have a sell limit @ 2400.00 then you should see 2400.25 prints to be sure you get filled.

Remember the LIVE situation will be different what you see in SIM.
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Well folks you are stuck with me a little longer. I spoke with Rick at Tradovate and got a 2-week extension on my demo. But I have to fund with 2k to get an unlimited time. Amp and TT offer 10 minute delayed this is what threw me off. This is an entire new world compared to the wild west of Forex

I learned that my demo in fact is live data. Rick stated we have tried to make it as realistic as possible. I guess Brokers can configure their sims.

Rick said to add 1-tick to my cost...but what about my missed trade opportunities...does that 1-tick cover my method?

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up $562.50 less commish for the day thus far. (38 rt's)

I just learned that I can drag my horizontal buy and sell lines to match the action most previous to help keep the signal calibrated and current. Those lines do not have to be balanced on each side of the zero line either.

This market changes character intraday many times. Much manipulation going on.
How do you guys read the DOM only? ...that greg500 poster must be brilliant.

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P. S. If I had 6k in the account with a daily loss limit of 1k that would do it. I would scale down my daily loss limit as profit presented itself while waiting for catastrophe. I would restart each trading session with 1K daily loss limit and hopefully move it down to zero throughout the session :p I would remove half of the profits via ACH each day (TY Tradovate & Phillip Capital). When my balance doubled everything else would too.
 
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40RT's +$625.00 (commish $103.20) NET $521.80

Daily loss limit moved to $478.

My fixed costs are just membership fees ($199.00/mo). Charts free. Exchange fee $5.00/mo. My labor $35.00/ hour. Income Taxes ummmm got to think about this.

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Just check it every AM before trading.

As others have mentioned you want to know where you are in relation to key levels of current and previous activity, similarly you want to know if a report is going to come out. I remember you saying you were in CA now. So the larger reports come out at 5:30 and 7:00 PST besides that you only need to be aware of the occasional FOMC release, Trump tweet, triple witching or terrorist attack. :)

Of course if you are able to replicate your sim performance with live trading (which is doubtful) and you can still make money with your broker occasionally auto-liquidating your positions it wont matter.
 
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Be sure that the markets will trade through your limit orders. For example if you have a sell limit @ 2400.00 then you should see 2400.25 prints to be sure you get filled. Also the spread will do tricks for you not getting optimal fills everytime.

Remember the LIVE situation will be different what you see in SIM.
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mr. es < > please do not skip over this very important post quoted above< >

also congrats for such a successful, honest, non egotistical thread you have gong here.
 
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