danville ca usa
Posts: 51 since Mar 2012
Thanks Given: 6
Thanks Received: 41
|
ES, EMD, NQ, TF, AND YM tend to move together. I watch/trade all of them looking for the first one to make a move, and then look at the others to see if they are setting up with a similar move and setup. sometimes they all move at the same time and other times the moves are spread apart so I can enter several trades in succession.
currency futures seem to run on their own during the night/early morning, but when the US futures market opens, then they tend to be affected by the index futures and often run in the same direction for the first hour or two after the futures market open. I watch/trade currency futures US vs euro, pound, canadian dollar, swiss franc and yen.
I am just watching crude and natural gas for this year, similar to you in trying to learn more about them. It takes me up to a year of watching and sim trading before I trade live. will probably start trading them in realtime next year.
Watching/trading 10-12 symbols can be taxing. I usually trade from 5am pst to 9am pst. After that I watch and trade only when there are good moves in the market.
my june trades by hour were:
5-6 14%
6-7 27%
7-8 22%
8-9 11%
9-10 7%
10-11 5%
11-12 8%
12-1 6%
cheers
toucan
|