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Even though you cannot explain your methodology, it has still been interesting for us at least. Maybe one day you want to mention something more about how you arrived at your methodology (even if unexplainable), how long it took, the different roads you traveled in the beginning.. Good to hear at least you learned a lesson yesterday!
It’s your journal do what you want, but the format you have been following has really helped me out. I’ll still follow it either way, but your posts haven’t been in vain.
1)it didn’t make any difference for me, I don’t feel any stress due to the bigger position (400/450 dollars per tick);
2)I can easily put 10, 20, 40 contracts orders (limit orders at ask/bid or 1 tick below/above, not market orders), even out of the main session hours (the market just absorb it like it was nothing);
3)I have never notice any robot/algo strange behavior.
TOS is freezing constantly during and after price spikes, it’s frozen right now and I just had to exit a position using the iPad.
Results: Won 8k. Lost 13k. Won 13k. Net 8k until now.
Latter I’ll do a “debrief” of today’s trades. Right now I’m refreshing my mind in a cold pool (until my rage due to the platform bug vanishes lol).
Today I was scalping (5 and 1-minute chart) when prices went down strongly against my position. I decided to go with the flow and inverted to take advantage of the possible second leg down. I was particularly happy because I added more contracts and nothing was different (no fear and no greed from a psychological POV).
After a 2-hour pause, I noticed that prices were about to test the "long term" trendline. I shorted [email protected] in the microtrendline breakout and added 20 contracts 20 minutes later, when prices went strong against me (you should expect that before a spike in your direction).
Very nice. I agree with your view on the market, even though I currently trade ES and have not touched CL for quite some time.
Big players move the market and it usually pays out to watch for traps.
I am currently trying to quantify my rather intuitive trading, though - trying to create some playbooks with repeating scenarios. In general for most traders trading intuitively is a killer, though - I feel that market movements are often so fast, that you need to know in advance, what to look out for. As soon as one starts to think while trading, he usually starts to lose money.