Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
After watching NQ futures broke above yesterday's high, I was waiting for the first pull back to get into Long position. Indeed, Long position was established around 1035am when NQ futures bounced from moving average. This trade, I applied CBL trailing stop instead of setting a fixed profit target.
One trade ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
I have no idea what's going on with my Tradestation. I have an nice short setup of NQ around 1050am. My sell order was triggered, and immediately I saw some big loss figure in Matrix screen. It hanged, and suddenly showed me losses. That was not synchronized with what ...
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
Long position was established around 1041am (NY time), which was the first pull back of new uptrend cycle. This was the second time NQ trying to test last Friday's high. I was wrong . Stop loss was triggered with 1 R loss. Since the second attempt of previous high failed, ...
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
It is a choppy morning. After observing flag pattern formed, and the first pull back of new uptrend cycle, I took a long position of NQ Futures at the break of flag. It started nicely, however it stuttered after moving up around 38.2% from flag pole. I moved my stop ...
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Long position was established at 940am when a flag pattern and dummy spot were found. This is another pattern trade, so target is set by using the height of flag pole. Target was not achieve, however, it was near, I closed the position when uptrend seems to be weaker.
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Though we had some sell off during the opening, I did not find much trading opportunity. Instead, I saw a new uptrend cycle was formed. Long position was established around 1010am. It was a bull flag (more on chart patterns later) combined with my dummy setup.
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