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On Thursday the realization that I would have to wait at least another month if I want to use NT in my combine kicked in. Was not happy.. I traded sim and clicked on everything I saw... Lost 3500 in a couple of hours. After I got over my bout of self pity, I ended up trading ZB for the rest of the day in my TST account. Made $768.
Friday I tried a really short time frame in GC after the news broke.. It ended badly. I went back to what I knew. Once I determined it was heading up I took a longer term trade and ended up +960 for the day in GC.
I traded ZB at the same time. I had one longer term trade and the rest were scalps. I ended up +656 for the day. I like how ZB moves. Its very mechanical with low volatility. A large move for ZB is 5 to 10 ticks. It makes it perfect for a scalping type of strategy. It helps the tick value is $31.25. This makes it ideal to use a larger number of contracts with a tighter stop. I made several 1 tick scalps with 4 contracts which netted $125 each. I could pick those off all day long.
I have started looking into data feeds which hook up to Ninja in case I decide I want to start my Combine early. The idea would be to use the trade interface of Sierra Charts to hook up to T4 while using NT charting.
Traded ZB and UB today. Had issues all day with ZenFire not processing stops and having unrealistic slippage when manually closing a position. Decided not to post the numbers because it does not accurately reflect my actual trading today.
Yes.. They started working again. The computer I am using post to futures.io (formerly BMT) had not been restarted in a month and a half or more. I believe this was the cause. I had several other issues with web pages which cleared up after I restarted.
I am laying out my options for starting the combine. I have two choices; wait till NT becomes available on TST, hopefully next month,or create a hybrid system of T4 and Ninja. I have been looking at different data feeds to power my NT charts. Kinetick is in the lead at this point. I started practicing with Sierra Charts entry system. I have some basic strategies set up. Right now the thing that's holding me back from going to full blown Sierra is the Channel Trend bars. I am finding them quite efficient to trade ZB and UB. I played around with Sierra's Renko bars today but it just does not compare to the Channel Trend bars.