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You have to survive

You have to survive
Every day is a battle, survival is rule #1

Friday, July 29, 2011

The hourly trade with /ES that i just found would have been good for 16 points.  Me likey.  I would have had to exit at 2 am though.  I stay up late anyways.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

I could have entered this 5 min move "a little late" at the open and i would have gained about 9 points.


 Even better though, is this hourly move which i would prefer to have gotten into, if i had th choice.  It is still going and it is about a 17 point gain at this moment.  This could easily tell me to exit this bar or the next.  I used the 4hr chart to draw resistance lines, which is good enough if i cant use the daily chart.  There were actually two lines but the first line i could have ignored since the trade setup didn't look perfect enough until the 2nd line was punctured anyways.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Found a nice 15 min move.  I would have had to enter at the open, then ride it out into the late evening as the trend weakened and volatility dried up.  It would have been good for 13 points on Sp500 futures.
The hourly chart looked "almost there", but during its break out bar the EMA's were not good enough, so i dropped down and found the 15 min move with a great set up.  There was also a move before this one that i would have entered but that one would have been at or just above break even.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

The ES hourly trade that i was watching turned out very well.  It would have been  a gain of about 41 points if i had exited early monday morning.  Im sure i would stay up late or set loud alerts to go off with an hourly trade like this one.  Using the pivot high/low trailing stop is definitely the best way for me to exit.  I really like it and i had only switched away from it a while back for what i thought were tactical reasons.

Friday, July 1, 2011

as of the close today, my hourly sp500 futures trade would be a $2350 gain.  market really shot up today.  new, higher pivot lows keep getting made.