The Naz had something to do with the trade, but looking at some of the main Naz sensitive stocks at that current time, there were quite a few that double-topped along with the Naz so that was a great opportunity to send out a basket order. I'm doing too many things at once over here and only traded the one stock. I'm still working on my futures game plan during the day and just when I think I have figures out the best set up I come across a problem. I'm still making "paper" profit trading futures but I'm looking for a few more consistent points before I go live.
TODAYS EXECUTIONS: 15:17:42 QCOM BOT 2000 31.84 15:09:56 QCOM SHRT 2000 32.34 10:26:32 QLGC SLD 2000 50.74 10:08:18 QLGC BOT 2000 49.93 OPEN POSITIONS: LONG PALM 10000 3.63 -0.83 CLOSED P&L: $2,620 OPEN P&L: ($8,300) MTD: $44,330 YTD: $203,660
Nicely done today Seanote. Two clean trades in a tricky market. I'm curious why you wouldn't just use the same approach with the futures.
That's what I've been working on for the last 5-6 months. I almost have my strategy set and I'm very eager to begin live trading with futures.
Seanote, What is it about the futures that requires all that work? You seem to have a pretty impressive handle on trading stocks and options.
It's not actually the basic trading strategy as much as writing the program to auto execute without churning all day. I don't want to daytrade futures all day long (ie: 25 roundtrips).... I am tinkering on my signals to give me about 5 roundtrips on an "average" day.
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I'm just curious. Do you look at Fib Retracement levels at all in your trading decisions? QLGC had a low of 49.47. It trended up to a high of 50.80 then started heading down. The 0.382 Fib is 59.29. You shorted @ 50.30. Of course, that assumes you shorted on the way down. Just trying to figure it all out. Great Thread, Jeff.