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u+2 @ 767
+2 @ 757 = +4 @ 762 (Ger30)
+3 pending @ 737 (just changed from +2 to +3)
As we approach June expiration, Ger30 currently about 3 pts lower than futures :
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Comment : I realise that trading two methods on the same underlying is beyond both my execution skills & account size (the other method would be short from around 784). At present, I would have to trade the directional with 1 x FDXM and the "Scale" approach (how I describe B's method here) with multiple Ger30 soldiers of perhaps €1/pt each. The only way I might be able to do it would be to automate the 1 x FDXM : I can get this to work in sim, but not Live....
The reason I am attracted to doing this is that the trend method "should" always be with the occasional huge one way rises or falls and protect the Scale method from a bloodbath.
Continuing this fascinating discussion with myself... I often feel that trading is a wonderful way of coming face to face with my own stupidity. I have just realised that one of the "missing components" in my two method idea is to only use the trend entries when they are counter to the Scale method. An option trader would have recognised this immediately.
+2 @ 757 = +4 @ 762 (Ger30)
+3 pending @ 737 (just changed from +2 to +3)
As we approach June expiration, Ger30 currently about 3 pts lower than futures :
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Comment : I realise that trading two methods on the same underlying is beyond both my execution skills & account size (the other method would be short from around 784). At present, I would have to trade the directional with 1 x FDXM and the "Scale" approach (how I describe B's method here) with multiple Ger30 soldiers of perhaps €1/pt each. The only way I might be able to do it would be to automate the 1 x FDXM : I can get this to work in sim, but not Live....
The reason I am attracted to doing this is that the trend method "should" always be with the occasional huge one way rises or falls and protect the Scale method from a bloodbath.
Continuing this fascinating discussion with myself... I often feel that trading is a wonderful way of coming face to face with my own stupidity. I have just realised that one of the "missing components" in my two method idea is to only use the trend entries when they are counter to the Scale method. An option trader would have recognised this immediately.
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- May 31, 2018 2:50am May 31, 2018 2:50am
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Currently flip-flopping around b/e level. Stop is there as my Ninja ATM (automatic trade manager function which places targets and stops on entry fill) must have a stop.
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I call upon my father's spirit , watching over me
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I call upon my father's spirit , watching over me
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- Edited 3:22am May 31, 2018 3:06am | Edited 3:22am
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{quote} I have 6FDXM 750
+4 pending @ 707
My soldiers are much smaller than your soldiers
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So - hypothetically - IF my Ger30 units were €1/pt & IF I was short 1 x FDXM from 781, at the point my 737 filled, instead of my Ger30 breakeven moving to 751 (as above), with approx +40 gain on FDXM (versus 7 x Ger30 €1 units = €5 FDXM equivalent +28), breakeven would have been 723, ie. total trade in profit. Capisce ? (sorry my explanation may not be too clear)
My FDXM reference chart :
