Rosebud

Discussion in 'Journals' started by nitro, May 11, 2015.

  1. ya, don't mention it:D
     
    #111     Jul 31, 2015
  2. ubo

    ubo

    Hi Nodoji,

    Do you mind posting a chart to illustrate? Also I can't really see what you are referring to regarding the 2 swing lows for the hourly chart.

    Thanks.
     
    #112     Aug 1, 2015
  3. NoDoji

    NoDoji

    Sure, here ya go. The charts are Pacific Time.

    As for the turning point on CL (first chart), I was trading to the long side from the open because I'm a day trader and will trade any direction that makes sense on a 5-min chart (a swing trader would be short or looking for shorts in CL and a 5-min chart would likely be noise). However, my profit target zone was around that LTL which also coincided with an earlier range low, so basically I expected previous support to become resistance, at least for a while.

    On the Nasdaq short (the chart is QQQ's) I was targeting a break through the descending lower channel line for lows into the close, but that did not happen and the trade was scratched when the second attempt down resulted in price turning up off a higher low.

    CLBOPB60min.png QQQBOPB.png
     
    #113     Aug 2, 2015
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  4. again, since OVX futures are delisted ; but of course you are trading synthetic representation of OVX.....with OVX spot up huge (41.98) since the above quoted post (and i see no where u have closed the trade)...

    what are your plans? hold until profitable?

    of course that's what i do in "actual vix futures"..but that's real so no point getting in to that here.

    in any case i'm curious what your plans are with the OVX 2 shorts.
     
    #114     Aug 6, 2015
  5. nitro

    nitro

    Out CL 44.01, - 3.61. A silly mistake cost me an extra dollar in losses.

    Holding two short OVX.
     
    #115     Aug 7, 2015
  6. Those lines are very subjective in real-time but great in ad hoc:D
     
    #116     Aug 10, 2015
  7. Nitro, how does an algo make a silly mistake??
     
    #117     Aug 10, 2015
  8. nitro

    nitro

    I changed the way I exit unit 1 (stop loss) and I copied and pasted code and forgot to change a constant. That would have cost more than a dollar had I not puzzled over why it didn't get out when it should have.
     
    #118     Aug 10, 2015
  9. ok. we'll see how it does going forward. is IT in a trade?
     
    #119     Aug 10, 2015
  10. nitro

    nitro

    Two short OVX. That is it.

    It just missed going long CL last night.
     
    #120     Aug 10, 2015