Stopped and closed rest, -600 I would have been better of being more patient on first entry to hit low of premarket. Price movement now too erratic to bother with, rechecking at US open
Closed (XAU+XAG)/XCU for now, -28 realized in total as I don't want to risk any major cash from here by getting deeper into red (it's why it was scaling in slowly after all). Gold's failure to keep 1600 and 1550 after nudging it is somewhat troublesome.
Previous HK33 trade was just mistimed it would appear, max profit on bull move starting half an hour later w/o leverage was 0.8%. As for today, markets seem fairly non-trendy with a narrow range at the moment, hence I'm waiting for some new driver. Maybe trade deal signing is it.
Buy China A50 x 13 @ 14480 stop 14468 Increasingly looking bullish for tomorrow. Taking large spread hit here of ~160. Might consider making stop slightly wider if it survives until the evening.
Buy NAS100USD x 55 @ 9064 stop 9053 Lower end of range Edit: Nope shit timing, stopped -600 Illustrates what happens when I try to trade a ranging rather than trendy market. ;-) Looks easy but it is deceptive like hell. Another case of want to trade but shouldn't, will sit on hands now.
Nope China A50 stopped, another 600 I presume (will look up exact figure for this and previous trade tomorrow). Cursory self-investigation: These were not trend following trades. So were they panic dip buys? Not so in the case of NQ. China A50 was more debatable but it was not waiting for the assumed signal of the day (trade deal signing) which itself turned out to be a dud, if not wholly unpredictably so. Lately I've been waking up 2am at night which lets me look at Asian session fresh but makes me tired when US session comes around.. not ideal since US is the session I'm familiar with. That combined with creatively ignoring my rules again leads to this outcome. Time to get that rule checklist/flowchart up on the wall I've been considering for ages...