Tag Archives: Futures trading

8/26/24: Still At It

I don’t recall the last time I posted, but know it was some time ago. Lets see in the last 6 months or so life has been hectic, I have tried various things to make some side cash outside of trading, not too much success. Honestly not enough time to commit to anything to giveContinue reading “8/26/24: Still At It”

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 IContinue reading “Trading – QuantVue”

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 whatContinue reading “1/11/2024: Quick Update”

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”