Pre-market was weak. Nothing was really exciting today. I was looking for opportunity to scalp ES. Another TICK Band setup was formed. After Intraday high was tested twice and failed to be cleared, I was looking for opportunity to get long and targeted at day high.
Target hit with +1 ES point (1-R gain). I am looking for another opportunity again.
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I do not label this as a dummy trade. The entry was not really a narrow range bar. Instead I have established a new category called TICK Band. This trade was made based on NYSE TICK behavior.
The strategy is to catch the short term momentum in the market and trade along the direction in ES (E-mini S&P). A strong resistance was found at previous day’s high. It was tested once, and failed to clear it. I was waiting for ES to test it again.
Indeed, higher lows were formed in ES and TICK. The probability of this setup is high according my experience. That was the reason I risked 1-R to gain 0.6R. No secret, just traded with trend lines.
Target hit. First trade closed with +1 point (0.6-R) gain.
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Let’s start the week with this. Man United 2- Sheff United 1.Rooney, 3 goals in 4 days. He is back to his best again. Not trading well recently? Keep your head up, focus, focus and focus..
Go read about how Manchester United came back from behind and slaughter Sheff United.
And, secondly, read Chasing success, again from Trader-x.
by Gav 5 Comments
It is Thursday! It is options expiry Thursday. I will be taking Thursday and Friday off. Instead of trading , I am working on some programming in Tradestation. Playing around with EasyLanguage and code some simple alerts and indicators. Trading in the evening time is tiring, so I guess some alerts help to keep me awake when opportunity appears.
Some observations after reading blogs: I found some common traits among traders (those appear in blogsphere) who do well (at least from the trades they have posted) like Trader-x, Estocastica, Maoxian, Tom.C etc though they might have learnt some skills/ideas from other traders or mentors, the key point is, they have developed a set of strategies by their own. There might be similarities, but there is always something unique from each of them.
I am kinda lazy to continue writing on this topic. The key point is, you wanna use an indicator? please open up the source code, read it, and understand what the heck is inside. You wanna learn a trading strategy, read it, understand it, and make it your own. Yup, your own.
Just some random thoughts.
