Monday

IFO at 10:00

FDAX

Gap: no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: long (extreme)

10:00 - 10:30 bar: long

I created a file to be able to look at the 10:00-10:30 bar for IFO days. It doesn't give good outcomes. So no trade

Tuesday

FDAX

Gap: no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: above prior day HL
IB direction: long

DAX Long (paper) trade
Entry 10:30
Exit 12:30
SL 56 pts
Result -56 pts (SL)

Historical results with this setup:
SumR 374 (22 trades/win% 77.3%)

So, SumR translates to a relative (to current FDAX price) result of X points per trade (SumR/No of trades/10000*9am open price).

Let’s see




edit 11:15: I'm glad I'm paper trading

Wednesday

FDAX

Gap: down gap
Gap closed during IB: no
Position price at 9:30: below prior day HL
IB direction: short

DAX Short (paper) trade
Entry 9:30
Exit 10:30
SL 40 pts
Result -40 pts (SL)

Historical results with this setup:
SumR 137 (17 trades/win% 70.6%)

2nd trade:
DAX Long (paper) trade
Entry 11:30
Exit 13:00
SL 48 pts
Result 157 pts

Historical results with this setup:
SumR 170 (17 trades/win% 76.5%)


So, SumR translates to a relative (to current FDAX price) result of X points per trade (SumR/No of trades/10000*9am open price).

Let’s see

Thursday

FDAX

Gap: no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: short extreme

No trade for me due to extreme IB value

Friday

Last day of the month/quarter

FDAX

Gap: no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: long

Doesn't give good options to trade

Tuesday

Yesterday holiday Tag der Deutschen Einheit

FDAX

Gap: up gap
Gap closed during IB: no
Position price at 9:30: above prior day HL
IB direction: long

Nothing looks good enough for a trade

Wednesday

FDAX

Gap: no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: short

Nothing looks good enough for a trade. Win% is nice, but the profit/trade is too low

Thursday

FDAX

Gap: no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: above prior day HL
IB direction: long

Nothing looks good enough for a trade, as the 'above' doesn't give many historical occurrences

Friday

FDAX

Gap: down gap
Gap closed during IB: yes
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: long

DAX Long (paper) trade
Entry 10:00
Exit 11:30
SL 67 pts (very high with current ATR)
Result 51 pts

Historical results with this setup:
SumR 286 (17 trades/win% 82.4%)

So, SumR translates to a relative (to current FDAX price) result of X points per trade (SumR/No of trades/10000*9am open price).

Let’s see

Tuesday

FDAX

Gap: no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: long

Not a very promising outcome, but it’s within the rules of taking it, so:

DAX Long (paper) trade
Entry 11:30
Exit 14:30
SL 59 pts (very high with current ATR)
Result 58 pts

Historical results with this setup:
SumR 207 (16 trades/win% 68.8%)

So, SumR translates to a relative (to current FDAX price) result of X points per trade (SumR/No of trades/10000*9am open price).

Let’s see



edit 12-10: SL almost hit