apex futures attempt

have yet to lose a funded prop firm forex account..... have nothing but good things to say about them...... but there is a fork in the road ahead......

one door closes..... another opens......

signed up with apex...... studied on it pretty hard last weekend...... went ahead and bought the twenty 25,000 accounts......

had never seen the tradovate platform...... chose it over the others offered..... no reason why.......

tradovate has a internal copier...... broke the accounts down into 4 groups...... named the groups by number of accounts in each...... 'two' , 'three', 'five' and 'ten'......

a trade placed in a group, places the same trade in each member of the group......

trading micros only...... dow, nas, s&p, russell and gold...... only......

1500$ target to pass should be no problem...... the trailing drawdown should be no problem....... being able to explain trades if required, should be no problem.......

they seem interested in people with a plan..... and less interested in cowboys.......

there is a required master course that must be taken prior to trading....... took it twice....... just to be sure......

the platform is quite different from metatrader....... it might take me a few weeks to get a good hold on it........

will try to be a honor student........h
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dow weekly td sequential at 18.......h
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Hello Hayseed,

what do the nine little squares correspond to?

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hey mchl..... that is a ea which writes itself..... so what is seen changes...... i see what it feels i need to see..... an alert after it runs lets me know what i'm lookin at.....

in that particular screen shot, in order,

6 ema, 8 ema, 10 ema, pwcf, 12 vs 34, tsr 10, tsr 20, tsr 89, zigzag.......

the pwcf is just a custom indicator.....

the 12 vs 34 is just the 12 smma vs the 34 smma..... in other words is the 12 above or below the 34.....

occasionally the mfi 20 above or below the 50 will be in there...... and at times the qqe above or below the 50..... or the wpr......

zigzag is always last,......h

passed...... terrible w/l ratio...... needs to be > 80%...... high 80's would be normal..... commissions was not be a factor......

it was me.....h
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tradovate quick start guide.......h

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all 20 evaluations passed and are now pa accounts...... made a foolish error in one account monday...... twice.......

other than that, 0 losses for the week.......

next week the sheets come off.......h
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said you must make 2600 in video, meant to say 1600 ......h

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thinkin next week might be a bit tough...... going to estimate between 50 and 300 trades next week..... averaging 20$ per........

will post my results here regardless.....

from enivids site below.....


to pass the evaluation on twenty 25k accounts you must make a minimum of 30k...... 30k....... 1500 per account.....

then you start over with pa accounts ...... to get your first payout, on twenty 25k pa accounts, you must make 32k....... 32k...... 1600 per account.....

so, before your first payout on twenty 25k accounts you must make 62k....... 62k..... 3100 per account......

62k would choke a full grown mule.........

know it going in.......

line'em up and let's play......h
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dang durable goods news sent a big wave my way...... bailed out with a loss before the ripples finished me off......h

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managed to crawl back up yesterday..... had been up nearly 3k at one point..... trailing stops closed everything ...... ended up 1k..... or, 50$ across 20 accounts.....

rolling the dice again.......h
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filled both full value gaps..... and cleared the 240 psar.....

end of the week, month and quarter...... will get dicey......

might sit it out.....h

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from enivds site........

to get a payout with apex, the minimum requirements are 10 days traded and 1500 over the max trailing drawdown....., in my case that figure is 26,600..... 100 must be left in..... which in essence means after the first payout my account can never fall below 25,100......

on average, i believe it will be difficult for me to make 1500 per account every 10 days using a single micro future...... today is my 9th day..... i'm 60$ from it now.... markets closed for rest of this week.....

so how to make this work.....

obviously, increasing my lot size..... which would in effect mean doubling my contract size...... from 1 to 2...... no....... no way......

another solution would be to trade better...... far preferable to fiddling with contract size......

another, somewhat hanky panky idea is to use the payout window time...... that's 5 extra days..... there is no true advantage in requesting the payout on first day vs 5th day.....

if my payout request window is the entire next week, friday is just as good as monday..... after the first payout, there should never be any issue at all......

have high hopes for next week...... improvement is on my mind........h
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