i had not logged in to these fora in a long time. i had not had the time to do so, i have had a lot to do. this is a very brief update of how i have been doing over the past months: i have had a lot of luck. jaja. a really immense lot of luck i would have to say. september was spectacular for my strategies on the mnq, but since then stupid indices have not been allowed to be made to trend significantly. i suspended all my automated trading on the mnq since the very end of september and haven't restarted it since. anyway, i have been placing manual trades on other instruments (following rules based in those in the automated strategies i have developed for other instruments, just slightly more refined) and i would say i have been lucky. automated trading is murderously boring, trading by hand will indeed generate a lot more emotion, for better and worse. and in tradestation, actually i have been placing day trades with maximum leverage positions on the nq contract. for a long time i would have dismissed such a methodology but there are some situations where it can be attractive. i still have a long way to go to reach my objectives, so i will just keep my head down and try to stay consistent as i have been lucky to be since december of last year. i could try to take a look at where these fora are at at the moment if i have a chance over the next few days.