13 oct US session longed gold 8.31pm 12993 with just one lot (major news - market could be violent). profit : 35 ticks. $350 profit in 5 minutes is quite decent. of course 2 lots will yield $700 .... longed eurusd 831pm 11884 profit : 30 pips ( decent $375 but total less than 4 digits). ok. now let me focus on index futures. wonder when is Trump going to talk. ES, Russell and NQ same pattern. all sleeping for days and waiting for some trigger. but right now, price is going up. wonder if it will be continuation signal or perhaps should wait for reversal down signal.
13 oct US session Longed Natural gas 945pm, 3030 it might be slooow moving or it might explode up/down later profit : zero. Let me choose other better futures. NG might want to take a nap. Good night natural gas. signal missed : long russell @ 932pm was focusing on other futures.
Around this time 3 years ago, NG would go total gangbusters right at it's report time, with massive price swings in the first 2 minutes. HFT? After that winter season it simply stopped doing that, and has become asstastically boring. You are correct in asserting that it's just not good for price action lately. I still have a workspace devoted to NG I peek at now and again, to look for signs of that funky stuff coming back around, but I have an instinct that it was more a matter of spoofing large orders than actual industry trading. We may know soon as the CME usually takes a few years to come out with disciplinary notices about such activity.
16 oct Asian market CME opening - no big boys present. market very quiet ie past few hours no major news/events, no rockets flying. so most likely no signal next 2 hrs. let's see what happen when Asian exchanges open. OK. back to sleep again.
16 oct asian market longed crude oil 750am, 5184 price went up alot already. anyway, this is first possible signal. now going for breakfast. OK. back from breakfast. analysis : asian index futures : it has been rather tradable past few days. Nikkei - suddenly woke up on 13 oct. whatever it is, I'm not keen to trade Nikkei. US dollar : seems to be rather dead. perhaps it might wake up during european session but anyway, be on alert. copper. it has many blue candles since 5 oct. it wants to sleep now. crude oil / HO / RB - this morning went up perhaps after Trump made a speech?
continue ... shorted gold 920am, 13039 profit : -11 ticks Ok. time for morning exercise, then nice lunch
16 oct India session Longed India nifty 1145am, 11255 my crude oil position still open. Hope Europeans wake up early and assess Iraq situation faster. I see that I missed the copper signal which occurred during my lunch. OK. now to explore my next hobby. Now having 4 equivalent 32" monitors for trading. thinking how to expand to six or even nine 32" monitors. hmmm. wonder how much I must twist my neck to see all these monitors. Now time for afternoon nap.
retired from full time trading already. now at home I can have hobbies like having more monitors, more tables, more computers, and trade more exchanges. Seems like I will be working even more hours ; very oxymoric. That's the advantage of day trading.