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Couple R To Finish April, ATS Trades Slipped Up
It took almost all day for the trades I took to finally turn profitable, but it happened in the late afternoon. I ended the day up a couple R for my discretionary trades. My automated trades are...
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Boring Start To Month, Progress on Automated Trading
It seemed like there was a ton of candidates today but very few setups. I made 3 trades, 1 worked out (HOLX). I also felt like I made some headway on the automated trading front. I’ve been throwing a...
View ArticleGood Couple Days, Automated Trading Coming Along
I mentioned last week my automated trading approach – the ol’ throw a bunch of strategies at the wall and see what sticks. So far so good. Yesterday one of my strategies made about 5R, today it lost an...
View ArticleAutomated Trades +7R, Manual -2R
The automated trading did the heavy lifting today. One strategy is definitely rising above the others in my shotgun approach. I’m still trading much smaller in my automated trades, but over time I’ll...
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Increasing Risk with Automated Trading +4R, Manual Trading -2R
Today was a tough day – just glance at a chart of the Qs and you’ll see why: I lost a couple R on my manual trades, but my automated trades made +4R. I’ll be increasing my risk on the automated trades...
View ArticleSlow Day: ATS +1R, Manual +0.23R
Unlike OONR7, I didn’t have a lot on my watchlist today. My automated trading system pulled in 1R and I’m still slowly increasing size there. I’ve also tested a new automated strategy that I tested the...
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Summer Doldrums Have Arrived?
I twittered yesterday that there was nothing on my trading radar. I did find something to trade that ended up stopping out with some slippage. It was NGAS and it seemed to run out of, well, gas. It was...
View ArticleRan Automated Trading Robot Unattended For First Time
I had to run an errand yesterday right at the open, so I couldn’t be in front of my trading screen until 10:30AM ET or so. In my manual trading days, of course, this would have meant a wasted...
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Crazy Trade in GW Yesterday
I took one manual trade in GW yesterday. It was gapping down and printed a nice inverted hammer on the 2nd 10 minute bar. It looked like it was on its way until 10:28AM or so. Luckily I was stopped out...
View ArticleHow I Look at Money Management
As I’ve increased my trading size over the years, I’ve thought more about money management and the best way to approach it. You can make money management as complicated an issue as you want to, but as...
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