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While trading crude, I noticed an automated strategy I was sim testing was doing well on gold. It is a volatility breakout signal.
After many months of watching it, I noticed gold trends in channels nicely and then has great volatility breakouts.
It seems to trade like a currency and then take off in big moves to another place.
SO for a breakout/scalp thing I do, GC works better for me than CL. Even though the system was developed on CL.
I run it on auto for the crude now , and do GC discretionary.
Hi: Just started trading CL recently, after years of trading forex. Love the volatility. I noticed CL's overall volume is lower than that of forex. I'm currently just daytrading 1 or 2 lots at a time (average hold time is about 10 min). Wondering what is the maximum lot size CL can handle during floor hours (ie. being able to open/close trades without my orders being broken up and incurring additional slippage). Any thoughts?
I once traded over 12 car live on CL for a session just for the heck of it. (worst I've done is on the 6E).
It starts slipping or splitting over 8-10 contracts I recalled. i.e. some of the contracts were slipped over by a tick, or split up etc. , if Ninja's trade marking is authoritative enough on a live account. Probably dependent on volume and activity at
any given time too.