This is a losing trade. After Non Farm payroll report was out, Mini Dow Futures had a nice gap up. Long position was established above next inside bar @ 8:00am chicago time. Initial stop was triggered with 1~R loss.

The most interesting part of today’s trading is the experience of eCBOT exchange data down.
Here is the notice from eCBOT.

‘CBOT Update Regarding System Issue from Aug 4, 2006

On Friday, August 4, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. Chicago time, the e-cbot trading host moved all products to a closed state due to a software issue. At that time, all day orders in the system were automatically canceled. During the closed state, open auction products remained open. e-cbot markets reopened at 12:00 p.m. Chicago time. For more information please view the e-cbot bulletin 08.04.06’

On the other hand, I was a little lucky since my stop loss order was trriggered earlier as planned. Mini Dow futures reopen with a BIG gap which would be a multiple R loss.