Plan the Trade

Good luck with E2T, Ras - is this your first session with them?

My bias that the Dow had made its move for the day & that there was 'no way' it was going to reverse, & if it did that wouldn't happen straight away prevented me from doing well today. I exited that last long based on the bias.

yes first session .. dashboard a little different to ts .. less info on things like time in position. I'm using sierra with rithmic so exactly the same when trading. Great news on you getting funded

I got priced out of the market today today. I've been pulling money from Think or Swim to my home account to fund the new AMP account, and I leave enough to trade one MES + and extra $50 to $100. Margins at ToS had been $1320 to trade an MES and today without warning that I can see they are now $1730. I didn't mind exchange margins but this is now higher than the exchange from what I can see at the CME website. This will accelerate my move to AMP. I will keep enough at ToS to keep real time data and use their charts.

AMP MES margins look like they are only $40 per contract! Can that be real?

Day 5
Was on track to go 0/3 again... managed to keep it together.

I did find I had enough money for margin to trade the MYM micro dow. I will post the chart when I exit the trade but I wanted to post this now, because when I first started trading the MYM I ket getting in and then my stop loss owuld be hit. o I'd reenter and I couldn't figure out what was going on. I lost about 26 ticks before I realized that the trading platform was set up for the MES stop loss which is too small for the MYM. I am up 370 ticks of open profit at the moment, which is about 342 net after my initial screw ups.

The chart is going to look ugly because ToS uses such large trade markers on the chart it is difficult to make out what all was going on when I was having my problems.

Here is my PnL at the moment. It may be more or less by the time I close. I'm going to hold a bit longer.

That's a lot of ticks! nice job

Thanks! I am still holding the short. Going to see what happens when it reopens tonight. Unless it drops down to 28,000 even before the futures close - then I might take it off.

Better today.

Welcome back FF peeps! Missed everyone yesterday and happy to see the forum back up!

I'm still stuck trading MYM because Think or Swim jacked margins on MES. One trade so far today and this might be it for me today. Entered breakout of the opening range with a stop order and used +75 ticks as my target. Done and done!

MES I would have taken same set up but my profit target on MES is usually 10 points, or 40 ticks.

Good luck today to everyone!

I thought I'd take it easy but when the set ups are there it is hard not to take them!

For the day:

+75
+17
-37
+75
Total +130 ticks MYM on the day!



See you tomorrow!

Took all day but two decent longs and I finish with +206 ticks. Trades are not showing on the ToS charts today for some reason so I will post the pnl

I wired money to AMP to fund my account and the wire is there. I decided I want ot use the Trading Technologies platform, which is $50/month. AMP told me TT does not pro-rate the monthly fee, so I am going to suffer with ToS for the rest of this week and next week. I will start trading AMP on 11/01. I can't wait as the commissions will be only 57 cents per side for micros (I'm paying $2.47 per side, or $4.94 per round turn now), the margins will be much lower so more flexible to trade more than one contract, and ToS data freezes from time to time during the day. I have a TT demo account and the data never seems to freeze on their platform.

I will trade micros the first week on TT to make sure I have the order entry and stop loss functions down, and then I will move to the full emini.

Hope everyone is trading well as it has been very quiet here since the forum was down the other day.

Day 9
The account continues to grow! I'm slowly approaching the half way point and if I can keep this pace up I should be able to finish before the next billing cycle. Happy Friday

Way to go! We're all pulling for you!

I was unable to log in to Think or Swim this morning but no use crying about what could have been. I was able to log in and patience won out. Took this short for +75 ticks on the YM.

This is my last week with Think or Swim as my broker. I will still keep some money there and use them for charts. The charts are excellent when the platform is working. I will trade MYM the rest of this week looking for one or two good trades each day. Next week I will start trading with AMP using their Trading Technologies platform. I can't wait!

Good trading to all!

Probably calling it a day here. Took another +30 ticks on the micro dow (stopped out on trailing stop).

+105 ticks. Sure wish I were trading full size when I have these good days!

Too quiet here since last week's FF shut down. Hope everyone is safe and well.

Still here but bungled daylight savings & can't see anything I like (too late). Hope everybody doing well

I thought FF had gone skint, really unusual for that much downtime. Must have new owners or something. Nothing on twitter feed or to users, most unprofessional. I have same handle on another forum (which I won't mention) but hilmy83 is there so if this happens again, everyone knows how to hook up.

Edit quick +11 but too late on for me really.

One way market and hard to stop trading when I get a set up.

Now +186 ticks on the day.

I know some of you guys are moving along in your funding combines. I hope you are all doing well.

I'll be trading my new AMP account next week and I am now going to use the small Think or Swim account to learn to trade stock options. Anyone here have any experience with them?

I wonder if the rest of the week will be a bit choppy as the big boys are positioning for election results, depending on what they think will happen. I remember watching Harold make bank the couple days after the election 4 years ago. The market was moving really fast and Harold was just trading like normal. LOL