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  1. Topsteptrader

    Well, I absolutely needed any semblance of a normal, average range ES session today. So far the low is 1958+ and high of 66+ with 100% sideways...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 9, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  2. Topsteptrader

    When I'm trading 5-lots, many of those "trades" are 1-contract in, 1-contract in, 3-in or 2-in and 3-in scaled entries as price moves in favor...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 9, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  3. Topsteptrader

    CL: four sessions P&L = $2,937 net ES: eight sessions P&L = (456) net ---------------------------------------- total combined net = +$2,501...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 9, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  4. Topsteptrader

    Today we expected range expansion out of the ultra-dead congestion of yesterday. And so it came to pass. Just missed a 2-lot CL long from 103.45...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 8, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  5. Topsteptrader

    Monday 7/07 was the 7th day of combine trading efforts. And I emphasize the term “efforts” because it was one of those uber-dead range...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 8, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  6. ES Journal - 2014

    funny how a 14pt pedestrian range has us all feeling like the market made some kind of monumental move. We've been staring at 3-tick hourly chop...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 8, 2014 in forum: Journals

  7. ES Journal - 2014

    ... but most important of all, it is today's CM-RoadMap 233-value down. As we've profiled here countless times, the 233 levels off the pit-session...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 8, 2014 in forum: Journals

  8. CL Redux

    I don't use a stop larger than -8 cents (ticks) at the most and commonly use -5 cent (tick) stops for CL trades. If those stops won't hold,...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 6, 2014 in forum: Journals

  9. Topsteptrader

    In any event, six days of combine efforts leaves me with a 50% daily win rate, +$1,700 left to reach minimum profit target and of that we need...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 2, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  10. Topsteptrader

    So then yesterday while I sat staring at the screens, watching ES chop yet another 3-tick dead range for an hour, I said to myself "f(orget) this...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 2, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  11. Topsteptrader

    A couple of weeks ago I was invited to give a one-hour presentation inside the TST intraday chatroom. It seems like the information given there...
    Post by: austinp, Jul 2, 2014 in forum: Prop Firms

  12. ES Journal - 2014

    eur, gbp, chf = usd pairs all offered +30 ~ +40 pip moves this morning. Straight, stair-stepped methodical. Monday it might be the jpy pairs turn....
    Post by: austinp, Jun 20, 2014 in forum: Journals

  13. ES Journal - 2014

    intraday trading is totally dependent on the factors stated. Nobody on earth with zero exceptions makes consistent gains purely intraday during...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 20, 2014 in forum: Journals

  14. ES Journal - 2014

    four years ago when VIX was 30+ the daily price range for ES was 20 - 40+ index points. A 4-tick move was common inside of 1-min price bars. You...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 20, 2014 in forum: Journals

  15. Going long and short EUR/USD on two different broker accounts.

    Well, it sounds to me like you are doing it wrong. My initial stop on a EURUSD trade is -10 pips. When the stop is hit on a losing trade, I am...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 14, 2014 in forum: Forex

  16. Going long and short EUR/USD on two different broker accounts.

    When I go to McDonalds without a free coupon for big macs, the sandwich costs me $5 or so. That's what I pay in cash to eat a big mac. The...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 14, 2014 in forum: Forex

  17. Going long and short EUR/USD on two different broker accounts.

    #1: the concept of synthetics is apparently over your head right now. So enough about that straddle stuff. I don't do it or advocate it anyways,...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 14, 2014 in forum: Forex

  18. I'd like to hear opinions about the results of my first ATS

    all of those contracts will experience slippage on actual fills... to my knowledge, TOS sim is not that realistic unless they changed its...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 14, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  19. Going long and short EUR/USD on two different broker accounts.

    First of all, what JC evidently wrote in his book was a synthetic options straddle. Using FX as a fixed-loss instrument with no possibility of...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 14, 2014 in forum: Forex

  20. Going long and short EUR/USD on two different broker accounts.

    Go back and read the post again... slowly this time. See where I wrote: ... your $3,000 short account is now $0 while your $3,000 long account is...
    Post by: austinp, Jun 14, 2014 in forum: Forex
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