Buy NAS100USD x 10 @ 7825 stop 7782 Attempt dip buy for overnight. A bit unclear what's causing NQ-specific dip aside from technicals.
Buy NAS100USD x 4 @ 7831 stop 7782 I've been thinking about changing base bet risk from 400 to 600 for a while now, time to do it (as I keep forgetting). 400 is less than 0.8% of my account now.
Umm yeah great, trade hit a news bomb. Oh well, leaving stop as is as I suspect retracement from here.
Sell XCUUSD x -30000 @ 2.6222 stop 2.6291 Saw a news headline about world moving towards a glut next year, and besides I'm already bearish on copper despite its refusal to move past current S/R-line. Might extend stop a bit as I put it very narrowly if position survives for an hour.
Move stop 2.6357 Remains to be seen whether trade was a good idea but it suffers a high risk of stopping and then immediately reversing where it currently is, hence wider stop. Approximately risk of $400 now
Close NAS100USD +220 XCUUSD closed for -410 Closing NQ because up move from last night looked rather weak.
So today has been another day where just holding on long would have made me $$$. But I think low risk attitude right now is fine, I will make such underperformance back on better days. And in the long haul I should learn options so I don't need to worry about poor price paths screwing my stops and what not. Where I need to take a hard decision on for next year is whether I should discretionary trade anything but equity indices at all given it's there I have positive expectancy, but TBD - the more sample data I have at year's end the better.