I feel very cold here. Because…my tradestation charts and quotes are FROZEN again?!? So cold…I can’t trade at all… YM, NQ, ES, ER2 all frozen like ice….
I don’t know what is going on here. Does anyone of you trading futures on tradestation and having the same problem? Please shoot me a comment.
I am trying to reinstall Tradestation build 3258 (man, i never know they have upgraded to this release) , hope it works.
I guess, I am unlikely to make any trade today.
I am back to trading today. But…..
I really don’t know what is going on with tradestation. All charts of index futures are frozen.
After rebooting my laptop, it doesn’t help. Something is wrong. Bad start of the trading day. So, I am not going to waste my time here. No trade for me today. I am going to continue my reading.
Before I leave for a week off, here is my weekly result review.
Another positive week for me. There weren’t much opportunities during the options expiration week. I made 3 trades, 2 losers and 1 winner. And yet, I am still in black at the end of the week. Average trade and execution score is bad, that was because I made 1 impulsive trade this week. Here is how do I grade my trade and execution.
Summary
Total no.of trades: 3
Winer: 1 (+2.38-R)
Loser: 2 (-0.66-R, -0.49-R)
Net P/L: +1.23-R
Average initial risk (R): 0.52% of total trading equity.
Average trade score: 3 (Grading: 1:Best 5:Worst)
Average execution score:3.6 (Grading 1:Best 5:Worst)
Trading U.S markets from Asia is interesting. We have different time zone, so I am keeping my day job as a IT professional crew and do my “full time” trading at the evening time. I normally get to my bed around 1am or 2am.
Here are some ‘survivor’ tips I have gathered and experienced after few months of active daytrading. I guess Eyal might have better tips since he has been trading from New zealand and Singapore now.
After all, trading U.S market from Asia is still bad for health. I am just doing something to reduce the possible damage. I need a healthy body to spend the money I make from trading.
Dear diary,
Market seems to know my frustration(just fed up with them) over those people who are questioning dummy trading. It gave me some small rewards today. Short position of YM was established below the low of 6th candle (945am NY time candle). That was a fast trade. Target at Fib extension 61.8% was achieved at 8th candle.
Cash market was losing -90 points. I chose to close my position since first target was hit. One trade closed with 2.38-R gain (27 YM points gain)
Trade Grade:
Trade score: 1: Target hit
Execution score: 1: Followed trade as dictated in my plan
Here is the beauty. Kiss her.
Be a better trader today.
It was not a strong day for index futures, but there were couple of set ups for quick profit (well, if only I caught it).
This is NQ. It was not a good setup, but it showed me how the setup works with 20-MA. Potential entry would be above high of 14th bar. Noted it went down to touch 20-MA and closed above all 3 MA and Opening Range high.
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This is a trade which I had missed out. I was having position in NQ. Again, this is another setup that would provide some small quick profit. YM bounced back after testing 20-MA.
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