First week of using the blackbox. single contract trading only, YM and NQ. Since readers really can't learn anything to assist their trading, and for me there is no purpose, I will likely not continue posting these results. Trade On!
Not to be construed as a direction bias. Information only. YM unfilled gaps. RTH only. Why RTH? Overnight volume is insufficient to fill gaps. Noteworthy and probably of importance for overall bullishness, is an unfilled double gap of about 150 ticks around 13100.
For the last 9 years I've donated 5 trading days a year to charity... 4 days to local, 1 day to national. In 2013, it's the greater of $1000 or the full days trading profits. I have no control over what the market will offer or what I will successfully extract on any specific day, hence the 1K minimum. Tuesday August 27 will be donated to http://www.threesquare.org/about-us/three-square-overview 2 remaining donation trading days in 2013 will be donated to http://www.theshadetree.org/AboutUs.html Please do what YOU can in YOUR local area.
This thread is in a coma. It's time to pull the plug. After this post which provides the standard ET hindsight no-docs update I consider this thread dead and closed. 1) Donation day, 8/27/13, was a HUGE success. Over $4300 was donated to threesquare.org The largest single-transaction cash donation I have EVER made! 2) I have added minor "features" to my little black-box. Things like a toggle for taking only shorts or only longs, and trade auto-sizing based on ATR. At this point, the trade logic ain't broken so I ain't fixin it! As I stated previously, BB is not a replacement of me. It is a tool to allow me to focus on other markets. BB trades YM and NQ. TF, or whatever the Mini Russell 2000 symbol is on your platform is my primary day-trading bread & butter. 3) Other than TF, I have been swinging DX (shorts only) and several softs. As usual, SB is a sweet-ass instrument for me. Unbelievably, performance bond was reduced on SB in time for the roll from V3 to H4. For the unknowing, 9/30/13 is LTD for SBV3. Action in OJ has also been fun with gaps, islands and reversals. Kinda funny what I deem as "fun" nowadays. 4) Thanks to a Jack Hershey book recommendation in another thread, I have been studying Al Brooks bar-by-bar methods. Similarities to parts of my systems should make logic tweaks relatively easy but most importantly, useful (ie. profitable). Thank you Jack. That's it. No charts. No blotters. No stat reports. No pics of cashier checks. No forecasts. Trade On!