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I'm not sure I understand that sentiment. What do you mean by "too leveraged" and leaving the contract overnight? According to my broker, overnight simply means the hours the instrument is closed. When the instrument's market reopens, you are back on daytrading margin. And I have yet to see a futures instrument reopen at such a radically-different price from the previous close in the two years I have been following them.
Can you shed light on experiences you have had doing this sort of trading? What are the pitfalls?
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I guess im the idiot one here than hahaha, i honestly never traded futures before and thought it probably works the same way as any other stocks, but i guess im wrong. I really think the swing can be quite large during thin volume time and you will wake up w/ a big loss. Again, im new w/ futures and i might be wrong with my statement
You are in no way an idiot. Futures are fun, they just take time to learn. I just spent some quality time on the phone with both the CME group and my broker to be able to reiterate and confirm my statements above and they confirmed them.
Conversely, I have traded stocks very little, so I would be an idiot with trading stocks on margin.
Like I mentioned above in a previous post, whatever wild swings may happen in stocks "overnight" does not seem to happen to futures.
Here's today's update for a two-month run. Note that the CL trade was the only overnight since Tuesday. Did some more daytrading with GC short, was a nice catch, and had scaled-into the overnight CL long on the anticipation of the report, caught the profits. Missed some more short action in GC, but wasn't in the mood after today's haul.
Shifted over to Dec GC and Sep CL now.
So yes Mark100, I think the 2-month summary shows that we can "maintain profit" with these trades...(?)
That's it for this next week. I ain't going to try to sweat this upcoming Brexit stuff. Screw that. Closed the CL and GC due to the possible Brexit flutter, I've made enough in the past two months to not want to chase volatility that seems to me will be nuts.
Here's the pics. See y'all when I get back in by the 27th June when stuff settles down. (No brave trades were taken, just working the fibs. Dumped that GC short because of what may be coming. I just want out, out, out for now.)
As usual, the trading journal from last post to today's post, the running total for that date range, and the final summary from 04/16 to current trading day. (In no particular order.)
Came back after a week off to let Brexit settle, did not so bad. Here be some pics of thus far. As usual, trade listing since previous session from above post (in new pic, lop off the first two trades, they are in old tradelist), plus total trade summary since 04/16 up until today. Also included is new fibbo on CL, plus current open positions.
The more I look at it, the more interesting it is. This might not be the system for me since I don't think I can hold and add more contracts if the fib line is breach and need to wait for the next one (especially in longer term view). But I'm really looking forward seeing how it unfolds when you starting doing the live account. Keep up the good work!
Pics from today, held an overnight in the two forward CL months. Same format, there's blah blah trade summary, account summary from 04/16 to today, a GC retrace chart. Please note that the HG (copper) trade in the trade summary does not count, I had to test my data stream to see if my HG data is corrupt. It is, because if HG was that low? Buy buy buy! LOL!
I'm really stuck in that GC trade now, since the CME just upped the overnight margin to $5,500 per contract (and I scaled into it at the wrong time.)
I'll work on fixing that HG instrument when I can. Silly Ninja.
K, here's the pics from the past 8 days, and illustrates why if you do not do this right the first time and build up a good buffer balance, there will be no second time. Ever, unless you are rich. Like more than what I am working with here...
, which has some assumptions, the most important of which is that everytime I have been getting into a trade, I feel like I am going in with original starting balance. Folley in a way yes, but it is a conservative habit.
I have not figured in profits from elsewhere trades, because of what the CME did with GC margin in the interim between the time I started this endeavor until today. I need to collect my thoughts, and my math...Stand by.