YM Untradeable?

A swinger should normally care much less about slippage than a scalper. Bad trade execution can be a real killer for a scalper whereas a swinger should be able to accept more slippage or it is not really swing trading.

Quote from Tea:

If you are swing trading using 30-minute and higher charts you typically enter using a buy limit-stop (long). Ditto for your exit limit-stop.

I use IB and with YM it zips through the buy stop with my limit order activated several ticks under. More often than not, if there is any trend it will not back-fill and touch my limit order. This makes YM impossible for me to trade unless I want to use a market order (which I don't want to use due to the slippage - I'll just trade ES with its thicker liquidity).

For a very short term scalper, perhaps like Nitro, this may not be an issue. But for swing traders YM is a living hell.

Like I said, I really hope they get native stops so I can trade it again.
 
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