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Day 19 is in the books - it was a nice little winner with 10 contracts. That put me positive, FINALLY!
So, Day 20 (Thurs night / Friday) is going to be a simple 1 contract in and out trade. $17.50 total loser.
In the end, I ended up just slightly positive. I will submit my results to see if I qualify for a rollover (I should, unless I missed something).
I feel the only thing I did well in this Combine was keeping my discipline, and trading per the plan, even when it would have been easier to just "roll the dice" and go for broke.
At this point, I've done 2 Combines, and failed to pass, or fail, either.
Looking forward, the following questions remain:
1. Am I ready to start trading strategies 1, 2 and 3 with my own money?
2. Am I going to do another Combine, since I may qualify for a free one via rollover?
I will address these questions in the days ahead...
Tomorrow (Friday), I will be on TopStepTrader Radio at 10 AM CST (note different time than normal) to discuss my Combine and answer some questions.
I don't see it that way (both of these special situations were in fact part of the plan - the latter technique was also used on the last Combine too), but I understand your thinking.
I'll try to disclose the complete plan better, should I try another Combine.
1. Am I ready to start trading strategies 1, 2 and 3 with my own money?
Here is the latest performance chart (based on Tradestation performance report) for Strategies 1, 2 and 3. Just to remind casual readers, part of doing the Combine was to validate if I could and should trade Strats 1, 2 and 3 with my own money, regardless of Combine performance.
So far, after 4+ months and 52 trading days, the overall performance (based on 1 contract traded always) looks pretty good. It is doing better than the "average" line, which concerns me a bit - over the long term, performance should be close to the average line, which implies that the strategies will underperform in the future.
I also have to do some correlation analysis with 3 other Euro systems I currently trade live - I don't want to be too heavy in the Euro.
Based on all this, I will probably wait until I get 60 trading days (another month or so), and assuming everything checks out, then turn them "on."