I'm glad to hear i'm not the only one! I was hosed for much of the day before I changed tactics. I wouldn't feel bad about sticking to my counter-trend strategy if I didn't realize very early in the day that prices were slowly creeping up. I consciously made the decision to stick to my strategy in the name of discipline. Discipline schmiscipline. There's always tomorrow. Revenge trading, here I come!
from what I just wrote is that if you cannot stand being bored, go with the trend and not against it.
Gee... I meant counter-trend trading... well this is a thread about simplicity, so I simplified that...
uhh, minus some points here on the esx, hope it is due to inexperience, haven been trading it for a few days only!
Since the primary contributors to the thread have been focused on futures, perhaps it would be best to move the thread to the futures board. --Db
The opening range breakout strategy, moving average crossover strategy, fibonacci retracement strategy, Bollinger Band penetration strategy, etc., are excellent strategies for trading. From experience I know that each of these strategies is applicable to equities and futures. Exclusively equities, no. Exclusively futures, no. The commonality among these systems is they are more attractive when using vehicles with greater volume and volatility. The ES and NQ represent better futures vehicles than corn, wheat or oats for daytrading. C, IBM, and AIG represent better equity vehicles than BYD or HGR for daytrading. Many, many of the active participants on ET trade the ES and NQ almost exclusively. They make great vehicles with which to try different trading strategies. All of these strategies are not exclusively applicable to the ES and NQ. Indeed, the SP daytrading method linked to in TriPacks excellent thread Gems, states that the method is not just applicable to the SP big contract, but admonishes that the chosen vehicle needs to have enough intraday volatility to make the trade worthwhile. Vehicle selection is accomplished in this particular method by taking the ratio of: the 10 day average range between the open and the close, and the 10 day average range between the high and the low. In 'candle-speak', this will select candidates whose average candle body occupies at least 50% of the total candle size. Very few strategies are applicable only to futures. I suspect it is coincidence rather than outright necessity that the strategies discussed have referenced the ES and NQ as exemplar vehicles.
Snosur4, Todays action on the emini sp......how would you have traded your system based on the first 30min rule? I ask so that I can more easily picture your system in operation. Regards Toby