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Dummy day trading #37 06-Nov-2006: ES Long trade closed

by Gav Leave a Comment

Ok, a coward can’t make big money.
Mistake of the day was not taking position of YM and ES in the first 30 min. I was not confident enough. Here is a trade with second setup found in ES. I scratched the trade with 0.32-R gain. ES was hanging at 61.8 Fib level and it seemed to be finding resistance at this level. I decided to exit the position and wait for second entry when it pulled back to moving average. (I know, this is just an excuse of not willing to see my stop loss get hit, stupid coward).

  • Uptrend.
  • Long above high of 15th narrow range inside bar, which was also supported by rising 5-EMA.

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Snapshot of cash Index

by Gav Leave a Comment

Quick view of cash indices. No prediction, but it does look a bit tired, ya?

Dow

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S&P 500 Index

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Tradestation…FAILED again

by Gav 16 Comments

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.

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No trade: Tradestation failed

by Gav Leave a Comment

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.

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No trading 09-Oct-2006 Happy Columbus day

by Gav Leave a Comment

Dear diary,

I wanted to make some trades today. However, after watching volume in the 5-min chart of ES, I give up the idea. Volume is lousy. There might be some interesting trades for stocks trader, but most likely we will be having a choppy day in index futures.

So, Happy Columbus day, and I am taking the time to do some reading.

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No-trade-Friday

by Gav Leave a Comment

Dear diary,

Unexpectedly, I am working in office now. This is a real technical issue. And I am cracking my head now. So , no trading today.

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