Day trading derivatives futures.

Discussion in 'Journals' started by maxinger, Sep 27, 2017.

  1. maxinger

    maxinger

    5 oct Eur session

    what happened so far ...

    NQ up 832a (probably due to Nikkei)
    HangSeng reverse down 944a
    Taiwan Index down 1004a <<<< superstar performer !!!
    NQ also down 1004a
    TW HangSeng reverse up 1040a
    IN Nifty down 1228p

    Why Taiwan Index went down sooo much?
    Absolutely no idea & there was absolutely no prewarning.

    India Nifty now at 10500. is it aiming for 10000?

    ha! look at NQ. See how it is sleeping. wonder when it will wake up.
     
    Last edited: Oct 5, 2018
    #521     Oct 5, 2018
  2. maxinger

    maxinger

    5 oct US session

    what happened during end Asian and Eur session :

    IN Nifty down again 142p
    Hangseng up 154p
    NQ down 224p
    germany fgbx down 302p <<<< super star performer !
    NQ down again 307p
    copper down 402p (continuation from US session)
    Italy btp down 436p (spreaders not spreading italy and germany bonds?!)
    IN down again 502p
    IN down again and again and again @532p <<<< mega star performer !

    IN Nifty aiming for 10 000?
    Perhaps few days later, news reporters will talk about India markets.

    Now wait for NFEC news.

    again how nice if I could just catch half of these signals.
     
    #522     Oct 5, 2018
  3. maxinger

    maxinger

    5 oct NFEC trading

    NQ reverse down @835p
    NQ reverse up @845p. let's see how far it can go.

    nowadays gold eur gbp are immune to nfec news.
     
    #523     Oct 5, 2018
  4. maxinger

    maxinger

    5 oct summary

    futures that went down significantly.
    Taiwan index
    India Nifty
    NQ (but very jerky spiky messy. very easy to lose money trading it)
    YM, RTY, ES ( they are much more organised than NQ)
    germany buxl


    futures that went down :
    Natural gas (lately getting quite tradable)
    Hangseng


    futures that went up :
    gbp (but untradable because very jerky spiky messy )
    mexican peso (but untradable because very jerky spiky messy)
    soya
    lean hog


    futures with small range ( very easy to lose money trading these )
    gold
    eur
    oil (because previous day long red candle)
    copper (because previous day long red candle)

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    So if you are lucky to pick trendy futures, good for you.
    And if you are unlucky to pick those very hard to trade futures, then very easy to lose money.
     
    Last edited: Oct 6, 2018
    #524     Oct 6, 2018
  5. maxinger

    maxinger

    8 oct signals summary


    NQ down 613a
    tw index reverse up 903a
    gold down 903a
    gold, gbp down again 931a (start of week effect?)
    CNX China A50 down 955a
    Hang seng , CNX china A50 down 1024a

    IN Nifty up 132p
    Hang seng reverse down 134p
    NQ down 333p
    germany fgbx up 405p
    Italy btp down 408p (spreaders spreading italy and germany bonds)
    IN Nifty down 430p
    IN Nifty up 530p

    Natural Gas up 702p (very tradable outside US session )
    NQ down 855p
    crude oil up 906p
    NQ up 939p
    NQ down 1045p
    NQ UP 200A


    most of the index futures exhibit similar pattern ( swing up swing down )
    copper sleeping.
     
    #525     Oct 8, 2018
  6. maxinger

    maxinger

    9 oct Asian session

    again index futures expected to move.

    best futures to trade is India Nifty.
    One thing good is its short trading hours ( 6 hours only) and its good trendiness.
    only need to glue ourself to the computer screen for 6 hours.
    trade with hugh quantity!
    target profit > $4k.
    max loss $1k
     
    Last edited: Oct 8, 2018
    #526     Oct 8, 2018
  7. maxinger

    maxinger

    9 oct eur session

    Unfortunately, it is time for IN Nifty to sleep. It has not slept since 21 sept.

    For those futures that have already moved yesterday,
    I'd trade with caution by reducing trade quantity as today is considered a high risk day.
     
    #527     Oct 9, 2018
  8. Handle123

    Handle123

    How is any trade considered different risk?
     
    #528     Oct 9, 2018
  9. maxinger

    maxinger

    These are the situation which I considered higher risk :

    - 2nd signal of trend continuation
    - If previous day candle is long, today trading is of higher risk
    - perhaps trend reversal
    - violent spiky moving market

    because of higher risk, I'd reduce trade quantity.
     
    #529     Oct 9, 2018
  10. maxinger

    maxinger

    9 oct US session

    My Nasdaq medium scalping trades :

    up 930p <<< big move
    up 933p
    up 935p
    down 941p
    up 950p
    up 952p ( I switched to RTY because NQ is getting too messy) <<< big move


    ok. 6 trades in half hour.
    quite straight forward to trade, answer from the text book.
    of course, some of these trades are scratch trades.

    on hindsight, I should have just traded RTY.

    hmmm. those heavy scalpers might incur 100 round turns in half hour

    ok. let me do again tomorrow if market has similar behaviour
     
    Last edited: Oct 9, 2018
    #530     Oct 9, 2018