Summary of instruments monitored and result: China A50: Traded as above. Also noted viscious spread (like 130*2 per roundtrip for 19 units). HK33: Considered entry but didn't pull trigger at a point where trend did have a long way to go Copper: Considered it an interesting setup but missed it due to monitoring first China A50 trade, probably cleanest trend of all today. I suspect we will be seeing either strong upside or downside today but I don't trust my judgement tonight so closing down.
News that Trump administration is risking to restart trade war derailed this trade, will see if post-open is any better.
Shit day (in terms of wasted opportunities) but that's fine, early day trend was decidedly strong and my execution was rather flawed (yet another instance of staying up at night to trade being harmful to trading later in day). I don't expect to have time in February to pursue any process improvements. I prefer to be optimistic that I will have one home run trade this month and there are still more than 3.5 weeks remaining.
Sell USB30Y @ 162.40 stop 163.23 Holding until end of week unless it quickly goes to hell. Yesterday night I had the option of buying into NQ.. didn't. The rest is history as they say.
The above bond short was for -1234 units. I'm getting fairly sloppy in specifying trades, mostly because I think nobody cares including myself (having the details in the system anyway). Some kind of mean reversion to be expected before trend resumption as market has been very trendy today. Wasn't really in a good focused mood for trading today either with car purchase dominating most of day.