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What instrument(s) do you trade? My monthly goal is the same as yours. I have a TDA account for "investing" and actively trade on NT8. I keep around $30k in NT8 account.
Mostly Nikkei and DAX futures as they are most favorable to my time zone. I do trade ES & NQ futures occasionally along with monitoring all the other futures contracts for opportunities such as the platinum trade I closed last week.
As suspected, I didn't have much time this week to focus on trading. However, I did manage to get in a few trades. It was another good week.
In addition to the day trades, I opened a new long position in platinum via one April contract and one July contract.
As a factor of my account size, I have been starting each trade with a single contract. I think I'm at the point where I can scale up to start with two contracts when opening a trade.
#1 (fat fingered a sell accidentally and bought back in...I consider this one trade)
2024.03.18 07:55:41 DDM24 buy in 1 18258 0.00 61 348.29
2024.03.18 08:00:09 DDM24 buy in 1 18247 0.00 61 348.29
2024.03.18 08 8:04 DDM24 buy in 1 18249 0.00 61 348.29
2024.03.18 08:08:54 DDM24 sell out 3 18249 -190.68 61 157.61
2024.03.18 08:09:09 DDM24 buy in 3 18247 0.00 61 157.61
2024.03.18 08:13:11 correction in 0 0.00 61 157.72 [synchronization]
2024.03.18 08:17:31 DDM24 buy in 1 18240 0.00 61 157.72
2024.03.18 08:40:02 DDM24 buy in 1 18233 0.00 61 157.72
2024.03.18 08:44:48 DDM24 sell out 1 18247 114.38 61 272.10
2024.03.18 08:44:48 DDM24 sell out 1 18247 114.38 61 386.48
2024.03.18 08:49:44 DDM24 sell out 1 18253 277.80 61 664.28
2024.03.18 08:49:44 DDM24 sell out 2 18253 555.60 62 219.88
2024.03.18 12:13:06 correction in 0 -0.39 62 219.49
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February ending balance: $37,738.87
March ending balance: $64,121.17
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March p/l: $26,382.30
As expected, time was limited this week. I managed to get a few trades in to round off a solid month, with all trades being Nikkei futures.
I have an open position in platinum, long two contracts, that is carried over to April. This week I rolled the long April contract to July.
Trade #3 below was a wake-up call for an ill-timed trade. I'm not sure why I put this one on...but clearly it wasn't my best. Upward momentum ultimately saved this one from a loss.
April started off with a big divot. Impatience finally got the best of me with a ~$8,500 loss to kick off the month. The trade went against me pretty much from the start. Buying my way out of this one didn't pan out. The last buy trade was entered from my phone. I intended to only buy one contract, but ended up buying 4 for a total position of 8 contracts long. The trade moved in my favor throughout the day and offered me the opportunity to close with a $1,000 loss at one point, but I let it ride. I set a stop loss before going to bed and ended up getting stopped out.
I was able to claw back about half of the loss by the end of the week. I'm still riding two contracts long in July Platinum that closed the week up ~$3,300.
Here's the trades...
#1 - the divot trade
2024.04.01 01:09:27 NKDM24 buy in 2 40450 0.00 64 141.95
2024.04.01 01:24:08 NKDM24 buy in 1 40405 0.00 64 141.95
2024.04.01 01:37:44 NKDM24 buy in 1 40175 0.00 64 141.95
2024.04.01 02:10:27 NKDM24 buy in 1 39895 0.00 64 141.95
2024.04.01 02:10:27 NKDM24 buy in 3 39900 0.00 64 141.95
2024.04.01 17:19:57 NKDM24 sell out 8 39920 -8 575.0055 566.95
2024.04.02 04:13:07 correction in 0 0.00 -160.52 55 406.43
Only three discretionary trades this week, with a profit of ~$3,100.
I started live testing an EA to see it's "behavior" across a few instruments. The list of trades can be found in the attached pdf. Overall, I'm happy with the performance of the EA. During testing, there were some errors being generated due to invalid entry & SL prices...a peculiarity when trading futures. These errors did not show up in live trading.
The two long platinum contracts position closed the week up ~$8,250. It was up over $10k at one point last week. I might close one contract soon.
