50K ET2 Mini Gauntlet journal

NexusFi · 2020-03-11T11:34:18-04:00

OK bit of a non-starter yesterday. Woke up with a stinking cold and number one daughter sick off school too. Dragged myself to the screens and really struggled to dial in. Took a few trades and was up a few hundred into the close and tried to fade that huge last hour 90 handle ES ramp and ended up giving back my profits and another $100. Feel same today but traded a few micros and banked $330. My daily tgt is $300-$500. If I exceed that I will risk any amount over $500 on another trade and carry on. Hopefully …

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Updated March 11, 2020

50K ET2 Mini Gauntlet journal

March 11th, 2020, 11:34 AM

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rb55

Manchester England

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Experience: Intermediate

Platform: NT8, Tradingview, mt4/5

Trading: RTY, ES, YM, NQ, CL, DAX, FTSE, GC, NG

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tr8er

First at all, it's a pity that you lost your account because of this computer issue.

CME doesn't close at 15:10, CME doesn't close at 15:15, CME closes at 16:00 CT

FYI, R-Trader has the possibility to close trades at a specific time (go to trader-dashboard, right-click the account and click "view risk Parameters", there you can set all you need.

Had no idea that R-Trader could do that. I was told by e2t that there isn't that function so they need to brush up on their info and advertise this on their site, unless of course they want people to break the rules.

By the way the CME closes (halts) trading at 15:15 CT until 15:30 CT then opens again for 30 mins

Margined trades need to be covered by then so no idea why e2t want you out 5 mins earlier as other companies don't do this.

CME Globex: Sunday - Friday 6:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) with trading halt 4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.