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Every instrument has its own character. Opening Ranges, Fixed bars, and reversal bars will work on almost any market that is freely traded and liquid. However, you have to do your homework on your market. For the ES, 5 minute bars are reasonable. ...

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I'm already in the trade. When bars are making lower highs and lower lows, I trail a buy stop above the high of the most recently closed bar. The reversal bar is the first bar to make a higher high than the preceding bar. I enter at the birth of the ...

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First, I never used M5 fixed bars or reversal bars on NQ. I only used M15 and higher, e.g. M30, M60. Second, looking at what you have posted, you are 1) using a too large profit target and 2) entering late, often your entry is likely very near where ...

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June 4th: +2R, BE, -1R, +2R image June 6: +2R, +2R, -1R, -1R (keep in mind that the latter two trades were NYC session, with larger ranges, and thus larger "R." So it looks like a +2R day "on paper" it was a -$125 day across the three sessions, or ...

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It trades 9:15 to 9:30 AM NYC time.

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I'll get to the other two dates later today. This is the first, May 14, 2025. +2R, +2R, -.75R, +2R image Here is a zoom in view of the NY trading window. The first trade would have been SAR'd (stopped out and reversed) when the candle after entry ...

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May 9th 1 breakeven, 1 +2R, one no trade image May 21 +2R, +2R, +2R image June 2 +2R, -1R, 1 breakeven image US Ultrabond futures using a variant of Fixed bar methodology, in this using the M15 range prioir to the Tokyo, Frankfurt, and NYSE ...

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Someone, anyone, do me a favor: Pick three random dates from, say the last 45 days, and post them here. Any three dates, so long as each is a trading day, i.e. Monday through Friday.

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Another thought is that many are stuck on the SP500, gold, oil, and the DAX. Those are all great trading markets. But don't forget that for us small retail types, the YM (DOW30) and NQ (US100) are also good traders. Blue I believe trades cattle ...

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Keep in mind that Mebob and ORB's are two different types of "fixed bar strategies." Also keep in mind that there are 78 M5 bars, 26 M15 bars, and 13 M30 bars during the NYSE session alone. Almost any one of those bars can serve a s a reference bar ...

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Hey Cog, I'm just curious, what didn't you like about the market that kept you from trading your plan?

CogAlpha's Journey to Fulltime Trading

I see he only joined FF 24 hours ago, and has already made himself a nuisance. People really should be restricted from posting anything at FF until they've been here at least a week. Preferably a month.

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I was hoping he'd get the hint, but trading attracts a bunch of narcissitic ego-maniacs (whihc is why so many fail while pretending publicly to be trading champions). I had a clear ignore list, but I put him on ignore as that is the only way to ...

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You do you.

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Back testing is part of trading. But the fact that you are focused on the back test rather than the process is clear indication that you have not spent enough time reading the thread and understanding our objectives.

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Always remember that the real objective of the 20 day test is the flawless execution of your trading plan, win or lose. Re-watch the Mark Douglas video on youtube about the exercise. video

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Microsoft OneDrive destroyed my Ninjatrader this morning on start up. I have no idea whyit did what it did, but did it it did do. Spend most of the morning trying to reverse it. Finally I had to disable OneDrive, delete it from my computer, delete ...

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