Techniques for Day Trading the ES, NQ, YM, MES, MNQ, and MYM

Discussion in 'Journals' started by volpri, Sep 26, 2019.

  1. 5 min, bar size quite large. A fully automated system needs optimization of timeframe, usually 1 minute or less.
     
    #1451     Aug 10, 2021
  2. volpri

    volpri

    I am a discretionary manual trader trader. Nothing automated here.
     
    #1452     Aug 10, 2021
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  3. me too, automated tools are easier to deploy when needed.
     
    #1453     Aug 10, 2021
  4. volpri

    volpri

    I may not post any charts tomorrow. I have been invited with the wife to eat the evening meal at a Brazilian Steakhouse…Texas de Brazil. The folks who invited us just happened to catch us in a receptive mood! The folks are not money people and the restaurant is pricey for the evening meal but it is something they wanted to do for us. In the good book I believe it says “give and it shall be given” and “it is more blessed to give than to receive” and “if you sow sparingly you shall reap sparingly, if you sow bountifully you shall reap bountifully.”

    So, it will come back to those kind folks in some form, or the other.

    I do not want to arrive at the restaurant brain tired from annotating charts…and explaining things. It is more work doing so than I reckon most people realize.

    I hope to be back to posting soon. But just thinking of that Brazilian Steakhouse can make a hungry mans belt buckle slap his backbone!
     
    #1454     Aug 11, 2021
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  5. Relentless

    Relentless

    You ever been to one?

    Best advice I can give is fast as long as possible going in. So much protein it still won't take long to get full! Hopefully they do the lamb with pesto edging like last time I went to one.

    Too many good cuts of meat...

    Enjoy friend!
     
    #1455     Aug 11, 2021
  6. volpri

    volpri

    I have been to many steakhouses but never the Texas de Brazil. My first trip there. I will eat a very late and light breakfast tomorrow that will also double as a lunch …in preparation for the evening meal! Thanks for the advice!
     
    #1456     Aug 11, 2021
  7. You are right on when you say I was lucky to get back 90% of my loss and I really appreciate your offer to analyze the trade for me but it is in the past and was a bad mistake and I just want to go forward from that day. Since July 27th, trading has gone much better with only 1 losing day and have increased trading size to 40 shares.
     
    #1457     Aug 11, 2021
  8. ondafringe

    ondafringe

    No might about it. Your trading style is definitely "ondafringe". lol

    As to the other, we'll chalk it up as a "senior moment." I've had a few of those myself, as I am well into my senior years, too! :)
     
    #1458     Aug 11, 2021
  9. volpri

    volpri

    Good. Glad things are doing better.

    I have a question. That concoction you told me to mix up for tomatoes. Will that powdered milk bring the ants out of hiding? They love to pillage my okra blossoms. I considered putting the concoction around the okra plants but if ants will multiply…I don’t know? It is those tiny fire ants that bite like an alligator.
     
    #1459     Aug 11, 2021
  10. volpri

    volpri

    I have been having too many of those moments myself lately!
     
    #1460     Aug 11, 2021