Trading – QuantVue

I am excited to announce a new product that I have come across in casual searching. Just like EVERYTHING else I post about this is a product I have tried and stand behind.

As I have been at this for a bit I am not quick to trust a new product, in this case I did join the Discord server and watched for some time. I also interacted with some of the new comers joining, also chatted with people that have been using the product for some time.

The product itself is meant for traders with some experience, they are very up front and honest about this from the start. Prop Firm trading is also a focus for the product and the Discord, I do not personally trade using Prop Firms but it is a topic I am going to look into further in the coming months.

In the end I did do the free trial period their Pro product when it was only available using the Trading View trade platform, the current packages and pricing as of today (3/30/24) are:

The Discord server has a ton of links for training (YouTube Videos) as well as links for discounts on Prop Firm promotions etc..

I did the trial and honestly I spent a tone of time learning Trading View, which is a good platform I wish was a available when I started, all waiting for when a version would be released on NT8. The product clearly works, the proof is seen in the wins channel, where honest results are posted including losing days. The community alone is worth a follow, I believe the Discord trading group is free to join, that alone is worth a look.

I am very excited to to announce that the tools for NT8 are released, I will be signing up to use those tools and I will share results from that journey in the coming weeks.

Another key strength of the company, from my perspective is that they are constantly upgrading and releasing new product so who knows what the future will hold.

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For anyone that reads my posts a like, subscribe and comment is always welcome. I don’t blog about trading alone, health and wellness is another healthy obsession of mine.

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1/11/2024: Quick Update

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 what it should, if I had been watching I most likely would have jumped out with much less profit due to stress. Its evidence that I need to keep working on the emotional side of trading, which is the biggest thing for me for sure.

Other than that over the past month trading has been light, I continue to test and refine settings and try to learn. I do hope that all that read this had a wonderful holiday season, all the best in 2024!

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, those did produce good results for a period, the market did shift and those settings have been more or less flat since. I have since moved to optimizing on a 90 to 120 day window, making the settings more sensitive to current market conditions. The results of the settings are using now are:

This is now my active settings, will be tracking actual to projected, starting with 3 profit points at 1 contract each. I have also worked on a scaling plan to increase the number of contracts as the account grows, accounting for a max of 10% risk per trade.

I will be reviewing these settings a couple times a month to determine market shift, still learning and adapting.

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 I think the market is a bit confused given the unrest in the middle east. Here are my stats to date:

For the time frame in question here is a 1 hour chart:

So in short we have seen a mix of short and long, last week I turned the algo off for the most part, this week I did take a couple of trades, one for a loss and one for a small profit.

Starting next week I will start to test a long only set of settings, I will do this for a week or so to see how it turns out. Another item I have nailed down is that the strategy analyzer does not accurately trade the settings, so with that it is a good estimate. I have found better results by loading a chart for a long period of time and looking at the historical trade performance.

It explains the disconnect I have always seen, the historical is close enough to live or sim trading for me. I will post again next week, I am also working on a trade journal to publish online for sale at Amazon, I will let all know when it launches.

For those that are health conscious and look for some good products please take some time to review the other parts of my website, comments and feedback are always appreciated.

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 is the trade from today, very exciting:

This was a $300+ move on MES, worked exactly how I would have hoped. Also as its a algo I didnt even notice the trade until I was in the trade and I just let it run. This was the forth trade of the 30 in the test, not sure if I will have the patience to wait for all 30 before going live.

Looking at the results of the trades so far here is the trade performance:

Not all wins, PF of over 5, short trades only (per settings), exciting stuff subscribe and stay turned. Also leave some comments if you have questions.

9/19/23: Site Update

I have made some updates to this site today, I have moved some health and nutrition items around, it just makes more sense to me. There are also more items listed on the Mitolife page, please take a look and keep an eye on it as I will continue to add content as time allows.

In particular I have have added another product that myself and my family have been taking called “Dissolve-It-All”. If you are looking for a product that helps clean your body / blood this product contains Nattokinase, which is a key ingredient in some of the cleanses that are being promoted.

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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 missed the big moves, thus the nature of the beast.

This week there has been only one trade, which was today, it ended up being a $62 loss, so I am still in the green but really more or less flat MTD.

All in all not as good as the last week of August, but I am testing a more aggressive set of settings, I will put that into SIM trading next week. From there I will look at a different market than MES to trade.

On another note, I have been working on additions to my website and other ideas for passive income, such as:

  • Affiliate marketing: I have done this in the past, I am amazed as to how much information is out there about this. I am not even going to try to get through it all, following my approach in life I am only going to market what I have used and can truly support.
  • Publishing: I am working on some notebook ideas, ideas that are more than some lines and dots in a book. I am about to publish one I have always looked for and wanted for work, its about 90% there, will publish on Amazon Direct Print.

For those interested in some very good supplements that have been a big part of my health journey, I have kicked off a section for Mitolife. To be clear anything purchased I do get a small amount paid to me, but I wanted to share this info as my health journey has been life changing.

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. That said I will be going live with trading on the short side only for the time being as of 9/5/23.

I am also running simulations on MES for a more aggressive set of parameters, I will run those in SIM for a period as well. With these profits this is certainly not enough to trade full time as a living, but in the last month the net positive is over $900, this is a very good start.

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 in Sim over the past month:

Based on my engineering background and 6 Sigma exposure I need over 30 trades to consider the sample size valid, I am over halfway there. With this I can already see that the short trades are out performing the long, but this would be obvious given the overall market direction over the past months.

Stay tuned, I will probably go live with short side only in early September, in the mean time I will add some pages on supplement and health reviews.

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 do recall stepping away as my full time job became very taxing with time and emotionally, on the personal side I also took on the purchase of a home and full renovation.

As I sit here today life has calmed some, the house is getting close to complete, work life is what it is but is far less demanding of my time. I have also taken time in the past year to focus on my physical and mental health, both of which have greatly improved.

My plan moving forward is to continue on my trading path, that is still the long term goal but also to explore other entrepreneurial avenues for financial independence. I will use this blog to document my path along the way that others can benefit from the journey. You will see the site change to include products that I have found in the past year that I have tried tested and and helped.

On the Futures trading side I have been doing some Algo testing of the AlgoNinja product and I am running some settings in a live environment against a SIM account. So far the results are positive, I will document this more in the coming days. I have also continued to learn more about trading without Algos as I feel this is most likely the end game for myself.

Stay Tuned and God Bless.