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Originally I thought there might be some sort of conflict since I have my personal account with NT brokerage and I still want to trade my personal account even when funded. It was their preferred interface so I just went with it. What I have been doing with the TSTrader is just using the DOM. I place my pending orders on my account first then add them to TStrader. Pretty easy to manage especially since I am on the 500 tick charts now. Plenty of time to react.
It is buggy on the charting end of things. It won't load enough candles on a chart by default to properly calculate my moving averages. You have to compress the timeline to force it to load enough to be accurate. Bad part is you have to do that every time you change tabs. But since I have my feed from NT it really isn't a major pain. I do actually like their DOM ladder better than NT. It's very easy to see where the larger orders are sitting, if I ever get to the point of knowing enough to use them. LOL!
Nice trend up last night. Maybe I should have stayed up late instead of getting up early. LOL! Current trend appears to be weakening. Seems to be struggling with this last push up. The old me would have put in a sell stop down around 7615 but that would be counter trend and we don't do that anymore. Will wait for something to develop.
Interest rates today at 2pm eastern. Will probably stop trading around 1 today and not pick it up again until Thursday.
Thursday will bring GDP numbers pre-market so we will stay away from that as well. Restart a few minutes after the announcement.
Biggest drawback to larger time frames.... It's easier to turn a speed boat than a cargo ship. LOL! There were set ups just no follow through to take out the pending order. FOMO wants to kick in and just say screw it, go short. But I can resist.
Looking for it to pick up for a little while today then get real quiet before interest rates.
Watched a guy live on youtube drop 10k on NQ on Friday. He's not doing much better today. I don't understand some peoples trading style but man this dude needs to drop back to demo and figure it out. He was up 600 bucks a little while ago but has let it drift back negative, then he added 4 more contracts short now he is down 1300 bucks. No stop just a profit target. It's like watching a train wreck. I hope it turns around for him but looks like today is a day to be long not short.
Great volume so far since market open. Could be a great day of trading.
might be able to get some back if we close this gap other then that hes SOL.. closed at a 2 week high, wouldn't be surprised if we ran up the yearly high this week. Only 30ish pts away
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"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie"-Miyamoto Musashi
Haven't really thought about it much. Getting lazy when it comes to this journal. I find myself focusing 100% on trading and not thinking about posting here much.
Poor guy ended up dropping another 4k+ today. Had to stop watching it, I was having heart palpitations watching his money float away like that. I tried to figure out how he makes his trades but it just doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like he was blindly buying at support and selling at resistance. Works great in a choppy market. Sucks in a trending one.
What made you lost your interest in this journal? You seemed very motivated at the beginning and i must admit i took some pleasure reading your journey.