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TheNegotiator

Day Trading the E-mini Futures

By TheNegotiator, in E-mini Futures

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joshdance    10

joshdance
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By the end of the day I am over 600Mb and it does crash my computer - especially if I do a playback... not sure what the problem is... I can't imagine I have so much going on that I am sucking the life out of it...

 

How many charts do you have open? If you only have a few, you could do a trial run where you close all but 1, observe the memory, and see if it climbs much. Then close it and try another. This should tell you which chart is causing it. Kind of painstaking, but it would work I think.

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roztom    10

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How many charts do you have open? If you only have a few, you could do a trial run where you close all but 1, observe the memory, and see if it climbs much. Then close it and try another. This should tell you which chart is causing it. Kind of painstaking, but it would work I think.

 

That is a good suggestion..

 

I have 10 open at one time...

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joshdance    10

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That is a good suggestion..

 

I have 10 open at one time...

 

I have 9 or 10 as well -- it could be painful, but if you open and restart each one, it may be the only way to verify. Do you have a lot of custom indicators, or mostly stock indicators? You could also identify all of your indicators, put all of them on a single chart and open only it, and then see if this also leaks memory. Heck, start from the very base: open IRT and close all charts, and see what the memory looks like at that point. That's how I would approach it, one bite at a time.

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TheNegotiator    13

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N: How high is your going?

 

No. I closed a few charts with big vp's on, did database maintenance wizard and turned off a load of pointless crosshairs. I'm sure the first point makes more difference, but a couple of weeks ago I was on 800mb now I'm just over 400mb.

 

Btw, did you move to the full release at all yet?

 

 

 

Although if it's climbing like that it could be some kind of buggy indicator.

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roztom    10

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I have 9 or 10 as well -- it could be painful, but if you open and restart each one, it may be the only way to verify. Do you have a lot of custom indicators, or mostly stock indicators? You could also identify all of your indicators, put all of them on a single chart and open only it, and then see if this also leaks memory. Heck, start from the very base: open IRT and close all charts, and see what the memory looks like at that point. That's how I would approach it, one bite at a time.

 

My indicators are all out of the can... but I do have the composites for the Daily and also the micro... and use Multiple period indicators..

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joshdance    10

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sold 95.75 here in anticipation of break guys.. let's see if it's for real

 

covered half at 94.50, now I can leave my stop just above the open and see if it can hit my real target of 87s

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TheNegotiator    13

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Phew. thought that wasn't going to go for a min or two. Was long into the number hoping for a little pop to properly test 99/99.50 then reversed quickly and got short at 97.5. Out at 94.5 looking at that balance low vol. Nearly reversed, but just mindful that recently it usually goes to the next level before turning. So will watch 92 area.

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joshdance    10

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"NO Supply" DOM? Is that what you are watching for htat?

 

Tom, it's a term used in VSA/Wyckoff that I usually don't use and really don't like that much, it kind of came out of my fingers as I typed, not my head :) Basically, if there were supply at that level, then a test below should reveal this and more downside should follow. But a 1 tick test below without much volume and pop back up signals no supply. I am not a VSA trader so the terminology and explanation may not be quite accurate. But, call it what you will, the principle is the same.

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joshdance    10

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covered half at 94.50, now I can leave my stop just above the open and see if it can hit my real target of 87s

 

Moving my stop to 96.25 for a near BE on 2nd half if it should come back up here. Would love to get 88 but may lower my expectations depending on how it acts if it breaks to 91.

 

EDIT: closed 93.00 .. IRT crashed and I had to rely on my backup NT chart, and based on what I saw I closed.

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joshdance    10

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Just bought 92.50 for 95, tight tight leash

 

 

Bill Gross saying last FOMC mins doesn't change his opinion on QE3 (i.e. that it'll happen)

 

"Gross: #Fed likely to hint @ QE3 in April meeting." twitter

 

GS says same thing after minutes, that they still expect further qe... not that either Gross or GS gets to vote, officially anyway :)

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joshdance    10

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Just bought 92.50 for 95, tight tight leash

 

closed 91.25 for -1.25 ...

 

Sometimes I will do this, try to play the rotations too cleverly and wind up just being wrong, when I should simply be holding short.

 

EDIT: that being said, I am long one more try at 90.50, with a 1 point stop. Any long, incl. the last one, is on with 1/2 a position by the way.

 

EDIT: okay, I'm out 90.00, enough foolishness for this morning :)

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roztom    10

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Moving my stop to 96.25 for a near BE on 2nd half if it should come back up here. Would love to get 88 but may lower my expectations depending on how it acts if it breaks to 91.

 

EDIT: closed 93.00 .. IRT crashed and I had to rely on my backup NT chart, and based on what I saw I closed.

 

What up with the IRT crash?

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joshdance    10

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What up with the IRT crash?

 

One of the new things with 10.5 is the ability to have multi-day and multi-session time periods. For example, I can have a "2 day" chart or a "1 day" which is 1440m, for example. The chart had "1 day" and when I went to change it I typed "240 [letter m]". This unfortunately changed it to 240 months (20 years per bar, so 2 bars for the full life of the ES contract :D )... IRT did not like this for some reason...

 

To change to a time periodicity you are supposed to type the letter 'i' (lower case), so I should have typed "240 i" .. oops! :rofl:

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