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August 5th, 2022, 07:33 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Hello traders,
Time flies... Still busy with a (non trading related) assigment, that probably is going to continue till the end of the year, maybe even longer.
It's good to make some real money after a 2,5 years of fulltime trading without having income or good trading results.
On a positive note, I didn't blow up any account like many starters did, far from that, so I believe my risk management and common sense kept me from disaster.
Made many bad descissions (not described in this journal) which in a few cases caused huge losses on a single trade or in a single day. But I also had a few huge winners (thanks to @GFIs1 ).
Anyway, I want to continue trading my system in this journal.
Before I can continue, I want to make some minor changes to the system. I started doing some of the work, and can hopefully finish the changes in the next weeks.
Once the changes are done, I will look for some time how the system is doing before live trading, but will discuss the progress here.
I'm excited to get it going again and to follow a path leading towards my early pension.
Have a good day
Deetee
August 17th, 2022, 12:32 PM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Hello traders,
OK. I did the work I wanted to do. I reviewed the process and ranges that I’m looking at, and updated the data (so now 2010 till 30th June 2022).
I’m only going to look at the DAX. Maybe later, when my assignment is finished, I will continue with FESX, NQ and ES.
I’ll start posting trades if there is one, but consider it paper trading for now and I won’t count them in the results of this journal.
See you tomorrow
August 18th, 2022, 04:38 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Thursday
FDAX
Yesterday extreme values (Prior day OC -310 pts). I made a set of rules for extreme situations, but haven’t tested it.
Gap : no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: long
Following the set of rules, there is no good result, so no trade.
However, the rules make sense, I think.
August 19th, 2022, 04:33 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Friday
FDAX
Gap : down gap
Gap closed during IB: yes
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: long
Only based on 8 trades, but with a 100% win score.
DAX Short (paper) trade
Entry 10:30 @
Exit 12:00 @
SL 46 pts
Result -46 pts (SL)
Historical results with this setup:
SumR 225 (8 trades/win% 100%)
So, SumR translates to a relative (to current FDAX price) result of 28 points per trade (SumR/No of trades/10000*9am open price >> 225/8/10000*13570)
Let’s see
August 22nd, 2022, 04:33 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Monday
FDAX
Gap : down gap
Gap closed during IB: no
Position price at 9:30: below prior day HL
IB direction: short
Doesn't look good for a trade
August 23rd, 2022, 04:35 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Tuesday
FDAX
Gap : down gap
Gap closed during IB: yes
Position price at 9:30: inside prior day HL
IB direction: long
Not good enough results for a trade.
August 24th, 2022, 04:49 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Wednesday
I overslept
FDAX
Gap : down gap
Gap closed during IB: yes
Position price at 9:30: below prior day HL
IB direction: short
The below prior day HL only has a few occurrences. Not good enough results for a trade.
August 25th, 2022, 04:12 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Thursday
10am IFO numbers, not sure what to do with these, so no trade.
August 26th, 2022, 04:34 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Friday
FDAX
Gap : no gap
Gap closed during IB: x
Position price at 9:30: inside/above prior day HL
IB direction: long
The 2 best results are in opposite direction and have overlapping times, so, no trade.
August 29th, 2022, 04:30 AM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader / IB /Rithmic
Broker: EdgeClear / InteractiveBrokers / Rithmic
Trading: DAX / (M)NQ / (M)ES
Frequency: Daily
Duration: Hours
Posts: 633 since Jul 2019
Thanks Given: 2,904
Thanks Received: 876
Monday
FDAX
Gap : down gap
Gap closed during IB: no
Position price at 9:30: below prior day HL
IB direction: short
Friday extreme down day.
Not many occurrences, so no trade.
Last Updated on September 3, 2024