So this is Dow closing for today (pit hours). No entry for me whole day. Sideways and undecisive whole day ahead of FOMC meeting.
Trading often is a waiting game. It's not glittering numbers in red and green, glamour of trading floors, shouting and fuss; often it is just silent waiting in front of the monitor. Waiting for the setup to form as to enter.
I go on with scalping at price breakouts on lows of the day but profits are still small. Still waiting for the wave to set up as to ride along for bigger wins.
No Instrument Pos. Qty Entry Exit Entry time Exit time Profit
1 MYM 06-24 Short 1 39220 39201 3/14/2024 21:08 3/14/2024 21:09 9,00 $
2 MYM 06-24 Short 1 39178 39171 3/14/2024 21:25 3/14/2024 21:26 3,00 $
Labels: trades
Quite choppy day today. Mainly watching the price action at Dow futures. Entered with a short trade at the breakout of day low for a fast scalp. I am trading breakouts and never learned trading bounces. There might be much better entries trading bounces; however I prefer trade imbalances and breakouts.
Sell 1 MYMH4 Stop 38769 Filled 03/08/2024 20:36:32
Buy 1 MYMH4 Limit 38753 Filled 03/08/2024 20:39:57
Labels: trades
Went for a fast short scalp on price action breaking out low of the day and bearish imbalance:
Sell 1 MYMH4 STP at 38647 - Filled - 1/1
Buy 1 MYMH4 LMT at 38611 - Filled - 1/1
Labels: trades
A loss day
Tuesday
2/27/2024 10:22:00 PM GMT+03:00
It's been a losing day, right on direction but got stopped out on a tighter stop; following with emotional revenge trades that reduced loses but not good at all for discipline and meeting trading plan.
Labels: trades
It's been no trading day for me; but after going through todays' dow emini micro futures chart, there would be a good entry here as per my standards:
All easy when looking from side lines. In real time trading environment, it is way too harder.
Looking forward to tomorrow's trading day.
I don't like after hours trading; prefer the pit hours.
The futures markets have just opened and I've already logged onto my account as to compare Tradovate web to NinjaTrader Desktop platforms. I've been trading to futures using Tradovate platform for a couple of years now and been quite satisfied with the simplicity and user friendly interface it has.
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Tradovate Web Platform |
As for NT I tried it as a demo on several occasions before but never used in live trading environment. Indeed it has better charting options, charts look quite rather more sophisticated to Tradovate ones; Yet I can't find how to trade from the chart on NT while this is the main option I like in Tradovate.
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NinjaTrader Desktop Platform |
As a person graduated in applied linguistics, I always have been interest in content and textual side of things. The interesting thing here is that human brain evolved in a way that we understand, describe and think about the world around us in text, using language, words, connected by syntax and rules. The same structures to communicate and nowadays even think are used by computers. The truth is that current most sophisticated AI use language as to understand the world. Even images and videos are described, split into word snippets and described by language.
The language is beautiful, having content and form. Both are beautiful in their own way. For example the content of a word is its meaning; it might have tens or hundreds of meanings while having one form -- it is the way it is written or the sequence of letters. Letters visually all different and, forming a word that once read, instantly signalling a meaning.
I grew up in the 80s in the libraries and forming in the 90s in the internet rooms. So my generation learned to receive information from text as well as to express and transmit information by text. I liked and enjoyed to communicate in IRC rooms, later emails and writing emails was the cool thing on the block. But at some point the internet changed or better to say evolved to web 2.0 and text started loosing traction to visual and instant communication. In the very beginning of web 2.0, Twitter was one of the last textual instances that held its positions but sadly no more..
I liked and still do like the physical feeling of writing words using a keyboard. Thus, for me, the ultimate communication machine can be a laptop or a blackberry phone. I never managed to learn to use a touch screen device -- call me an old-fashioned prick. Written words have some kind of mystical power as well as visual satisfying beauty. Take for a great example the Bible which is a written word, written text. You have thousands or fonts and forms of written word that once read brings information, feelings, dreams and understanding.
So going on this note, I've been thinking and imagining a social network that is built around only written text; having no other destruction or noise such as images, video or sound, but being only text, descriptive, imaginative, inspiring, written..Imagine how cool it could be, instead of sharing a picture of your amazing holiday, meal or cat, to describe it with words, tell a story, rich and imaginative as it could be, make other people read about it and tell and retell to other people from mouth to moth.
So as it appears now since Tradovate is a subsidiary of NinjaTrader, it allows downloding NT desktop application and logging on to it. My first acquaintance with #ninjatrader was some 4 years ago. I found it a quite enticing and good platform to trade but went with Ironbeam and spent a couple of years there. After that I went with Tradovate as a cheap alternative and very easy-to-use and intuitive; then NT bought Tradovate and now I am finding that I can log onto NinjaTrader desktop platform with my Tradovate account login details.
I didn't have live trades yet on NT as found it on Friday after hours. Currently, setting up all my preferences and strategies on NinjaTrader and will go on with first trades on Monday.
It feels good to be back.
And this is how the same trade looks like in NinjaTrader. During the last couple of years I got used to Tradovate web platform. Now I just have found that NJ is available with Tradovae login details. I only used NJ in demo environment though. Now I'm going to test the platform with my real account through the upcoming week.
Today there's been a non-trading day for me as out of my desk. I had a little scalp in imbalanced territory which wasn't a runner at all..
So it's Friday and markets closed.
Looking forward to the next trading week.
A couple of scalps before the close and closing statement below.
Overall it's been quite choppy day with no clear entries and no winners to ride.
Labels: trades
Two trades during the first hour of pit/cash trading of dow micro e-mini futures.
The first one got stopped out due to tight stop although overall correct direction long.
The second one was a winner on a breakout into imbalance territory.
Trading day continues.
Labels: trades
So this is Dow closing for today (pit hours). No entry for me whole day. Sideways and undecisive whole day ahead of FOMC meeting.
Trading often is a waiting game. It's not glittering numbers in red and green, glamour of trading floors, shouting and fuss; often it is just silent waiting in front of the monitor. Waiting for the setup to form as to enter.
I go on with scalping at price breakouts on lows of the day but profits are still small. Still waiting for the wave to set up as to ride along for bigger wins.
No Instrument Pos. Qty Entry Exit Entry time Exit time Profit
1 MYM 06-24 Short 1 39220 39201 3/14/2024 21:08 3/14/2024 21:09 9,00 $
2 MYM 06-24 Short 1 39178 39171 3/14/2024 21:25 3/14/2024 21:26 3,00 $
Labels: trades
Quite choppy day today. Mainly watching the price action at Dow futures. Entered with a short trade at the breakout of day low for a fast scalp. I am trading breakouts and never learned trading bounces. There might be much better entries trading bounces; however I prefer trade imbalances and breakouts.
Sell 1 MYMH4 Stop 38769 Filled 03/08/2024 20:36:32
Buy 1 MYMH4 Limit 38753 Filled 03/08/2024 20:39:57
Labels: trades
Went for a fast short scalp on price action breaking out low of the day and bearish imbalance:
Sell 1 MYMH4 STP at 38647 - Filled - 1/1
Buy 1 MYMH4 LMT at 38611 - Filled - 1/1
Labels: trades
A loss day
Tuesday
2/27/2024 10:22:00 PM GMT+03:00
It's been a losing day, right on direction but got stopped out on a tighter stop; following with emotional revenge trades that reduced loses but not good at all for discipline and meeting trading plan.
Labels: trades
It's been no trading day for me; but after going through todays' dow emini micro futures chart, there would be a good entry here as per my standards:
All easy when looking from side lines. In real time trading environment, it is way too harder.
Looking forward to tomorrow's trading day.
I don't like after hours trading; prefer the pit hours.
The futures markets have just opened and I've already logged onto my account as to compare Tradovate web to NinjaTrader Desktop platforms. I've been trading to futures using Tradovate platform for a couple of years now and been quite satisfied with the simplicity and user friendly interface it has.
|
Tradovate Web Platform |
As for NT I tried it as a demo on several occasions before but never used in live trading environment. Indeed it has better charting options, charts look quite rather more sophisticated to Tradovate ones; Yet I can't find how to trade from the chart on NT while this is the main option I like in Tradovate.
|
NinjaTrader Desktop Platform |
As a person graduated in applied linguistics, I always have been interest in content and textual side of things. The interesting thing here is that human brain evolved in a way that we understand, describe and think about the world around us in text, using language, words, connected by syntax and rules. The same structures to communicate and nowadays even think are used by computers. The truth is that current most sophisticated AI use language as to understand the world. Even images and videos are described, split into word snippets and described by language.
The language is beautiful, having content and form. Both are beautiful in their own way. For example the content of a word is its meaning; it might have tens or hundreds of meanings while having one form -- it is the way it is written or the sequence of letters. Letters visually all different and, forming a word that once read, instantly signalling a meaning.
I grew up in the 80s in the libraries and forming in the 90s in the internet rooms. So my generation learned to receive information from text as well as to express and transmit information by text. I liked and enjoyed to communicate in IRC rooms, later emails and writing emails was the cool thing on the block. But at some point the internet changed or better to say evolved to web 2.0 and text started loosing traction to visual and instant communication. In the very beginning of web 2.0, Twitter was one of the last textual instances that held its positions but sadly no more..
I liked and still do like the physical feeling of writing words using a keyboard. Thus, for me, the ultimate communication machine can be a laptop or a blackberry phone. I never managed to learn to use a touch screen device -- call me an old-fashioned prick. Written words have some kind of mystical power as well as visual satisfying beauty. Take for a great example the Bible which is a written word, written text. You have thousands or fonts and forms of written word that once read brings information, feelings, dreams and understanding.
So going on this note, I've been thinking and imagining a social network that is built around only written text; having no other destruction or noise such as images, video or sound, but being only text, descriptive, imaginative, inspiring, written..Imagine how cool it could be, instead of sharing a picture of your amazing holiday, meal or cat, to describe it with words, tell a story, rich and imaginative as it could be, make other people read about it and tell and retell to other people from mouth to moth.
So as it appears now since Tradovate is a subsidiary of NinjaTrader, it allows downloding NT desktop application and logging on to it. My first acquaintance with #ninjatrader was some 4 years ago. I found it a quite enticing and good platform to trade but went with Ironbeam and spent a couple of years there. After that I went with Tradovate as a cheap alternative and very easy-to-use and intuitive; then NT bought Tradovate and now I am finding that I can log onto NinjaTrader desktop platform with my Tradovate account login details.
I didn't have live trades yet on NT as found it on Friday after hours. Currently, setting up all my preferences and strategies on NinjaTrader and will go on with first trades on Monday.
It feels good to be back.
And this is how the same trade looks like in NinjaTrader. During the last couple of years I got used to Tradovate web platform. Now I just have found that NJ is available with Tradovae login details. I only used NJ in demo environment though. Now I'm going to test the platform with my real account through the upcoming week.
Today there's been a non-trading day for me as out of my desk. I had a little scalp in imbalanced territory which wasn't a runner at all..
So it's Friday and markets closed.
Looking forward to the next trading week.
A couple of scalps before the close and closing statement below.
Overall it's been quite choppy day with no clear entries and no winners to ride.
Labels: trades
Two trades during the first hour of pit/cash trading of dow micro e-mini futures.
The first one got stopped out due to tight stop although overall correct direction long.
The second one was a winner on a breakout into imbalance territory.
Trading day continues.
Labels: trades