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Hey trader.
Your stops from your history seem to be averaging - 20 ticks.
With your wins +5 to 20.
That means your win rate needs to be greater than 50%.
In cL 4 ticks is noise. CL is also a small market where they intentionally run stops on things like 1min or 3min inside bars.
Pump and dump.
CL also averages 50 ticks in 30min and 70ticks in 60 min. More since we are so volatile lately.
If a markets run 70 ticks from the last swing and 50min have passed...
There's nuances in cL. In every market.
Have you ever thought of scaling 80% to keep positive then let a few as a runner?
Excessive position-sizing is the normal reason for traders with a genuine edge and a net profitable method to fail Combines. Not some kind of obscure, unlucky accident: the normal reason.
I think you chose the wrong Combine. Beside there is not a real difference between the 100K and the 150K (so you could have saved 50 bucks right there) you should have done the 30K, for a couple of reasons:
1. For the price of a 150K Combine you can try 2.5 30K Combines.
2. You would use less number of contracts. Less temptation to try to score big.
3. The full position to max. DD ratio is much better at 30K, it is 10 times. Your combine had it at 6, so much less wiggle room if you keep trading a full position.
4. Same with the profit target to full position ratio, it is only 10 at 30K but 12 at 150K. Harder to reach it at 150K.
TL: DR; next time choose the 30K Combine, much cheaper and easier to do.