Today was validation as to why I trade algos and will continue to push through the highs and lows. Yes there are down days, this week so far has been a bit rough to be honest, but today I came back from a long meeting to see the following trade. Just under $90, also did whatContinue reading “1/11/2024: Quick Update”
Category Archives: Futures trading
12/13/23: Trading Update
It is amazing to me sometimes how much you learn, forget and then relearn on the trading of futures. In particular for trading algos and finding the correct settings, time frames to optimize, trust the output and what to trust. Having said this the initial settings that I had tested and validated in SIM trading, thoseContinue reading “12/13/23: Trading Update”
10/20/23: Trading Update
I have been actively trading live since 9/8/23, for a restart I would say that I am not unhappy with the performance so far. As I have said before I have been trading short trades only with a algo, with that the market had been trending up last week, this week was rough as IContinue reading “10/20/23: Trading Update”
9/26/23: Trading Update
I have been trade testing in a sim account on some new algo settings, still on MES. These settings were refined over about a month, the plan is to Sim trade for 30 trades and check before going live with real cash. These setting are set to take more trades and more risk. Here isContinue reading “9/26/23: Trading Update”
9/15/23: Live Trading – Week 2
As mentioned in my last post I have started to live trade in the short direction only with the algo. My luck is such that the past two weeks have been flat to a up market: Last week did have some down movements, the algo did take one trade for a +$80 win, but missedContinue reading “9/15/23: Live Trading – Week 2”
9/1/23: Trading Update
As mentioned in the last post I have been trading some settings in a SIM account, here are my results so far: These results overall are not as good as expected with a profit factor over 4, but a net for long and short trades of 2.68 is a good result in anyone’s book. ThatContinue reading “9/1/23: Trading Update”
8/21/23: Sim Test Progress
Sim testing is about complete, so far positive results, not what I expected from optimization results but positive just the same. In optimization testing showed a Profit Factor of over 4, which from my experience is not realistic in real trading, thus why I run in Sim on live data. Here are my results inContinue reading “8/21/23: Sim Test Progress”
8/11/23: Restart
It is hard to believe that it has been a year and a half since I had posted last, I still need to go back and read some of my last posts but I do recall the reasons well. This past year certainly has been eventful both in my personal and professional life. I doContinue reading “8/11/23: Restart”
10/12/21: Day Two Results
As I said in prior posts I have been really working to rethink my trading style, tons of old habits to try to break, but in general larger risk with much larger reward. Last week I did do some trading on some Algo settings, adjusting and playing with mixed results. This week after the experienceContinue reading “10/12/21: Day Two Results”
10/10/21: Trading Algos Unattended
I have been trading for a couple of years now, both manually and with Algos either written by myself (bad Idea) or using systems developed by professionals. Initially I was trying to run on a machine at home that I would remote into as needed to check how things were going. What I learned: HomeContinue reading “10/10/21: Trading Algos Unattended”
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