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  • #81
  • Dec 5, 2024 3:11pm Dec 5, 2024 3:11pm
Today's positions from left to right:

- S&P 500 futures: One loss, one open position.
- Nasdaq: yesterday's position closed in profit, one loss today and one open position today.
- Dow Jones: short position hit TP.
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  • #82
  • Dec 6, 2024 3:40pm Dec 6, 2024 3:40pm
Today's Nasdaq and Dow Jones IB trades. The Nasdaq position from yesterday was closed at TP and new Dow Jones short position opened and hit within 30min.
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  • #83
  • Dec 10, 2024 3:09pm Dec 10, 2024 3:09pm
Today's S&P 500 and Nasdaq IB trades. One closed one still open.
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  • #84
  • Dec 16, 2024 1:38pm Dec 16, 2024 1:38pm
Had an early day today. Here are today's S&P500 and Nasdaq IB EA trades.
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  • #85
  • Dec 20, 2024 10:08am Dec 20, 2024 10:08am
Today's IB trades on U.S. futures. Pretty short trades, 10 pips each.
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  • #86
  • Dec 23, 2024 3:45pm Dec 23, 2024 3:45pm
Today's U.S. futures IB trades. Got some bullish break a bit late in the day, the Nasdaq trade left open.
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  • #87
  • Dec 26, 2024 3:22pm Dec 26, 2024 3:22pm
Today's U.S. futures trades. S&P 500 and Dow Jones 10 pip targets were hit pretty quick but Nasdaq long position didn't have enough juice to make it hit the 10 pip target.

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  • #88
  • Dec 27, 2024 3:13pm Dec 27, 2024 3:13pm
Not all trades are winners, and not all trades are closed within the trading day.
Today's trades on U.S. futures: Short S&P 500 and short Dow Jones. None closed.
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  • #89
  • Jan 3, 2025 1:46pm Jan 3, 2025 1:46pm
Today's IB trades on U.S. futures. Manual positions were placed since I had a bit of a lot sizing issue. The Dow Jones position was manual and placed with a very short target but a bigger than usual lot size.

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  • #90
  • Jan 7, 2025 1:46pm Jan 7, 2025 1:46pm
Quoting fortyfive20
Today's IB trades on U.S. futures. Manual positions were placed since I had a bit of a lot sizing issue. The Dow Jones position was manual and placed with a very short target but a bigger than usual lot size. {image}

Hi, Been following your forum for some time i want to make a request if you can make an option in the EA that THURSDAYS the EA does NOT open trade! Why because been backtesting and seeing that thursdays are trap days and the EA loses most of the time in those days because of fakeouts!

If you can add the 5 days of the week like monday-tuesday-wednesday-thursday-friday and i can select if i want to put it on true or false if i want it to trade for that day in specific etc. Thank you in advance your EA its very good just need to improve it more!
  • #91
  • Jan 8, 2025 12:14pm Jan 8, 2025 12:14pm
Gentles sirs, before thank you for sharing the EA. It is what I was looking for, but I am confused. Please what may be the setup for opening the trade at 12:00 hours of own broker?
Thank you in advance.
  • #92
  • Jan 8, 2025 1:10pm Jan 8, 2025 1:10pm
Quoting luisoval
{quote} Hi, Been following your forum for some time i want to make a request if you can make an option in the EA that THURSDAYS the EA does NOT open trade! Why because been backtesting and seeing that thursdays are trap days and the EA loses most of the time in those days because of fakeouts! If you can add the 5 days of the week like monday-tuesday-wednesday-thursday-friday and i can select if i want to put it on true or false if i want it to trade for that day in specific etc. Thank you in advance your EA its very good just need to improve it...
Hey Luis, thank you for downloading and testing the EA! Really interesting point you make there! I've actually been diving a little into using statistics when trading. Example: what days of the week have higher volume than others, what months are better or have a more positive change and more cyclical statistics. Example: first and last few days of the month are good days to buy into U.S. indexes like the S&P 500. I'll look into adding a days filter when I get a chance.
  • #93
  • Jan 8, 2025 1:13pm Jan 8, 2025 1:13pm
Quoting flashpaul
Gentles sirs, before thank you for sharing the EA. It is what I was looking for, but I am confused. Please what may be the setup for opening the trade at 12:00 hours of own broker? Thank you in advance.
Flashpaul, thanks for downloading and testing the EA man! Check out this post:

https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...1#post14997571

Maybe this will solve your question?
  • #94
  • Jan 8, 2025 3:50pm Jan 8, 2025 3:50pm
Today's U.S. futures trades.

  1. S&P 500 broke to the upside, hit TP then broke out to the downside and hit SL. Here's where the importance of risk management comes in, my loss was a little smaller than the previous profit made. So I managed to make a little profit from the S&P 500.
  2. Dow Jones broke to the upside, hit 10 pip TP done for the day.
  3. One open position on Nasdaq futures.

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  • #95
  • Edited 3:29pm Jan 9, 2025 1:53pm | Edited 3:29pm
Quoting fortyfive20
{quote} Flashpaul, thanks for downloading and testing the EA man! Check out this post: https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...1#post14997571 Maybe this will solve your question?
Sir, I guess I have found the way.

My ideia is to set the EA at 12:00 of my broker for all pairs and close all the trades with a global profit for all the trades.

But it should be better to have a martingale progression where a new trade with maior lote is opened al the same level of the stop loss. If one trade is opened at one side, at the other side there is the stop loss of the first trade and a new opposite trade with doubled lote.

Another way is without stop loss and to set a trade with higher lote. For example 1 lote - 3 lotes.

I know that if one trades with all pairs you pay a lot of commissions, but the goal is to catch a fixed global gain all the days with the algebric sum of the trades.

I have an EA for this purpose.

I know that it is a deviation from your original strategy and if it's inconvenient for you, don't consider it.

Thank you for your attention.
  • #96
  • Jan 13, 2025 7:15am Jan 13, 2025 7:15am
Quoting flashpaul
{quote} Sir, I guess I have found the way. My ideia is to set the EA at 12:00 of my broker for all pairs and close all the trades with a global profit for all the trades. But it should be better to have a martingale progression where a new trade with maior lote is opened al the same level of the stop loss. If one trade is opened at one side, at the other side there is the stop loss of the first trade and a new opposite trade with doubled lote. Another way is without stop loss and to set a trade with higher lote. For example 1 lote - 3 lotes. I know...
flashpaul, yeah you're going a whole different direction here. I only use this EA to trade U.S. futures based on a part of auction market theory. I try not to mess with martingale either.
  • #97
  • Jan 14, 2025 3:15pm Jan 14, 2025 3:15pm
Yesterday's S&P 500 trade.
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Today's S&P 500 trade.
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  • #98
  • Jan 14, 2025 7:02pm Jan 14, 2025 7:02pm
Quoting fortyfive20
{quote} flashpaul, yeah you're going a whole different direction here. I only use this EA to trade U.S. futures based on a part of auction market theory. I try not to mess with martingale either.
Thank you for your answer.
  • #99
  • Jan 17, 2025 11:48am Jan 17, 2025 11:48am
U.S. futures trades today. S&P 500 and Dow Jones trades. 10 pips each, done for the week.

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  • #100
  • Jan 21, 2025 3:26pm Jan 21, 2025 3:26pm
Today's trades.

S&P 500 Futures
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Nasdaq Futures (TP no hit during today's session so this one is left open)
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And now I'm starting to test the IB EA on stocks. For now my logic for choosing which stocks to use the EA on is choosing the "Big Seven". Here's an example:
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On Friday Google price broke out above the IB, not enough momentum to close on Friday but at today's market open TP was hit.
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