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[Phil Mibbutz 10]

Short 103.

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

Short 103.

 

 

Half out at 090.

[Foale 10]

Short Dow 11131

[Foale 10]

closed at 5120, happy to grab whatever points! +35

 

I did not realise that you had closed...thought you were about to say...thank you +100

 

for tomorrow I have written down... "Keep those contract trades open.."

[smbtnt 10]

Short Dow 11131

 

brave move pre fomc, is this due to lack of conviction after 11100 breakout?

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

Looks uncannily strong at the moment. Another go at 150, then down, maybe?

[Foale 10]

Today for the first time in ages...I got to trade the 3:15- 3:50 time period...as no school run...

 

LOL It was a bit too fast for me...

I will have to gear up to trade that..maybe black coffee at 3pm!

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

Looks uncannily strong at the moment. Another go at 150, then down, maybe?

 

Long 111 (to prove my theory about 150 wrong...).

[Foale 10]

brave move pre fomc, is this due to lack of conviction after 11100 breakout?

 

 

 

out at 08.... +23

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

Long 111 (to prove my theory about 150 wrong...).

 

Half out before the news for +12, the rest for a fairly fluky +19 on the spike. Too much excitement for me today.

[smbtnt 10]

out at 08.... +23

 

ok, didnt realise it was a scalp....

[Foale 10]

ok, didnt realise it was a scalp....

 

 

Thanks for the heads up..I had forgotten the FOMC....Doh

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

Couldn't resist - short 152.

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

Couldn't resist - short 152.

 

Quick way to blow 13pt. That's me well and truly done for the day.

[Foale 10]

Quick way to blow 13pt. That's me well and truly done for the day.

 

 

I agree I was expecting it to turn down again too...

 

 

Good day for me...and really all Dax in the end...

 

Cash +183

Contract +76 (Sept)

 

so +259...if only every day...

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

I agree I was expecting it to turn down again too...

 

 

Good day for me...and really all Dax in the end...

 

Cash +183

Contract +76 (Sept)

 

so +259...if only every day...

 

 

Very impressive, Foale. Just worked out that my net for the day on real trades was a brilliant -1.5pt! Meanwhile, my paper account (mostly longer-term trades from yesterday) cleared about 340pt.

I should learn something from all that...

[Foale 10]

Very impressive, Foale. Just worked out that my net for the day on real trades was a brilliant -1.5pt! Meanwhile, my paper account (mostly longer-term trades from yesterday) cleared about 340pt.

I should learn something from all that...

 

 

Yes the days where is appears to have a whipsaw undesicive trend...can mean few points...then when you look back at the end of the day on a say 30 min time frame...you then see it was a buy...all day...

 

I am at least doing the contract trades...but of the last 7 I have done all would have at least doubled from the no of points that I achieved had I not bailed on the first sign of trouble...Have to learn they are a different mindset. I have those contract trades triggered by longer term charts that are on a different screen to the cash trades but still end up closing in them at 30-40 points...rather than the 60-80 they end up achieving before I get a close signal...

[Foale 10]

Very impressive, Foale. Just worked out that my net for the day on real trades was a brilliant -1.5pt! Meanwhile, my paper account (mostly longer-term trades from yesterday) cleared about 340pt.

I should learn something from all that...

 

 

So Phil...what are you NOT doing to make up that point gap...

 

number of trades?

holding on for the bigger points?

[BuzzLightYear 10]

right, gamble time, long aug at 5095 (edit:ftse, sorry)

 

Morning all. Glad I opened up this 3rd one! Just closed at 5214 +119

 

Fair bit of news out today so maybe some shorting opps later?

[Foale 10]

Morning all. Glad I opened up this 3rd one! Just closed at 5214 +119

 

Fair bit of news out today so maybe some shorting opps later?

 

 

Nice one...about time we start seeing some 3 figure gains...

[Foale 10]

short Cash Dax 6238

short Cash Ftse 5233

 

 

short Sept Dax 6288

[BuzzLightYear 10]

Thanks, lets hope it continues eh foale!

[BuzzLightYear 10]

short sept ftse 5247

[Foale 10]

Dax weaker than the Ftse this am...

 

 

Looking for the 15 min to break below its uptrend line from 11am yesterday..

 

Might need the Dow futures to oblige and fall under 11200 first...

[Phil Mibbutz 10]

So Phil...what are you NOT doing to make up that point gap...

 

number of trades?

holding on for the bigger points?

 

Errmm... wider trailing stops would have helped a lot yesterday, but the same might not be true today. If there's any sense to the world, the Dow should drop a couple of hundred points, but who knows?:\