YM Stop - Move to 20?

Discussion in 'Index Futures' started by tradefreak, Mar 13, 2006.

  1. Hey all you YM traders with a 5 and 10 pts stops - have been getting stopped out over the last month? Here's a 5 min chart of YM on 3-13 with 12-20 pt moves in only 5 minutes. What's your strategy to profit from these moves?
     
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  2. no, i haven't

    most of my setups use 10 pt stops

    and the stops only get hit 21% of the time
     
  3. Coolweb has spoken. What happened to your 1tick stops?
     
  4. 20 PT STOPS ARE OKAY IF U HAVE A SUPER HIGH ACCURACY SYSTEM......IF NOT, BYE BYE REAL SOON.
     
  5. hey whitster: are u scalping?
     
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    Good question.T-freak

    Mainly stay out of green-red slop-chop like your first 14 point slop-chop countertrend candle;maybe different for bid ask scalpers.

    The fewer times do trade a countertrend, want a lot/much more trends pointing down than first 14 point candle you marked.

    With most all the 5 minute & larger candlechart trend$ are up in YM;
    many more countertrends will be stopped out, no matter what size stops, compared to trends.:cool:
     
  7. volente_00

    volente_00


    Short the 10:30 reversal on a gap up, cover when it fills.
     
  8. i lost my shorts on ur short.......not really........my system said up up and away times a few cars........up the cars not the points.......when u see them.........punch the money button......
     
  9. there is one bad thing possible in this business.........losing money
     
  10. volente_00

    volente_00



    My above reply was for the chart he posted of yesterday.


    For today, fading the 10:30 trade would have meant going long as the direction before 10:30 was heading down. Rule of 20 said to buy at 11080 on the pullback. The 50% retracemnt from 11060 to 11100 was also 11080. And if you trade T day theory, then there were 4 strong reason to be long.
     
    #10     Mar 14, 2006