Welcome to my LCD madness

System that I have rigged up. Used all the available DVI capable LCDs I have in my possession. Seriously, I don’t need so many trading charts but sure is great to have this much real estate. I can read my mail, browser without switching application tabs.  These graphic cards PowerColor 3870X2 are great. I still have 3 more ports to boot another 3 more LCDs. But where am I to mount them? I ran out of desk real estate.

For VO, Kool, Pasha and others who wants to publish their blogs

Here is a tip. Download Windows Live software. Messenger is included in it. Among other stuff like Windows Live Mail. The important one is Windows Live Writer. http://home.live.com Get Messenger.  

Upon the first run of the application, setup your blogging account as other with Blogger. Key in your Blogger account details. Viola! you can edit offline and publish.

There is a Forbidden 403 issue if you attach images and try to publish. It will give this error. What you need to do is create a folder in your “Picassa Web Album” http://picasaweb.google.com Create a folder called “Windows Live Writer”

Do it by the “+upload” tag on the top and “create a new album” You can now publish your text as well as your graphics from Windows Live Writer to your Blogger blogs.

Have a profitable day ahead.

Trades 20 August

Its a long time since I have traded. This is my first post after a long while.

0336h EST Bought FDAX 5298.0 and sold 5308.0. +10pts on the FDAX. The indicator is the courtesy coded by Todd. This method consumes less market monitoring. Just buy or sell the 5 min Initial Balance of the open cry. European markets start at 3am EST though electronically they start trading at 2am EST. This method has its flaws. Just leave it to the probabilities to work it out. Fire and Forget method. This is one of my objectives is to spend less time monitoring and more time for other things in life. Just spreading my eggs. Trade the open of a few markets.

I have modified this indicator for ES, NQ, YM and TF. FESX however does not work well on this method for the 0305am breakout even though it is a European index, strangely works well on the US market open cry at 0935am breakout.

I have modified for CL(0905h), ZS, ZO and ZW(1035h). 6E and 6J(0825h) works well too.

TF Trade 28 July

1117h EST Sold TF 546.2 x1
1126h EST Exit 545.9 +$26.00 nett.
1157h EST I am tired. Missed all the opening opportunities. Out the whole day and the evening with the girls. Having the girls hug me and say "I love you daddy" is the best profit of the day. Later, after I have moved my residence and setup my platform. So updates will be inconsistent.

Mish Mash of trades

1141h EST made 9 trades. +$187.74 nett. Winners were CL, 6J, TF, YM and ZS. This method is quite mechanical but still requires some discretion. Though the SIM trades combined with these live ones would have yielded $743.10

End of the week and some results

As you all know, one of my objectives is to reduce my time spent on the screens. Analysis can be my strength but market monitoring is my weakness.

So far I am exploring to automate the simple 5 minute IB breakout method with the help of Todd.

So far I am liking it, not sticking to an instrument exclusively. More like hedging different instruments against each other.

A few days of forward testing on SIM, I have concluded that this methods works quite well on certain instruments. Namely, CL & QM which have exceptionally high wins. Followed by the currency pairs in order of wins, JPYUSD, EUDUSD and GBPUSD. ZB and ZN, the 10 yr and 30 yr Treasury Notes. Then ZS, Soy Beans seem to work quite well. Among the US Indices, YM(DOW) has the best results, followed by NQ(NASDAQ), TF(Russell 2000) and the worst performer ES(S&P).

GC, Gold and the Euro indices, FDAX and FESX does not yield good results.

I will make the best combination of above 12 instruments. I only made 8 live trades this week. Yielded just over US$1000. More forward tests and I will be comfortable to go live fully with 12 instruments.

New week and new method testing

Hi, after an atrocious week last week. I am laying of the live trading and go to some forward testing of a method and hunch. I won’t be posting much. I have go a new place to move to. So I’ll be busy setting up the new place and moving all the stuff.

I’ll be watching FESX(Stoxx 50), FDAX(DAX), 6E(EUR/USD), 6J(JPY/USD), 6B(GBP/USD), GC(Gold), ZB(30 year Treasury Notes), ZN(10 year Treasury Notes), CL(Light Sweet Crude), QM(miNY Light Sweet Crude), ES(eMini S&P), NQ(eMini NASDAQ), YM(eMini DOW) and TF(eMini Russell) for this forward test.

Since I am exploring currency futures, I have included in my right panel is video updates of the FOREX market with Dukascopy TV. They are a Swiss forex broker.