No trades yet today as I lost my connection to the prop firm data feed for some reason. I just got it back now. I don't know if this was a Ninjatrader issue or TPT issue. image

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Forgot to switch account from SIM to live. At the moment, it looks like I finally made a mistake that won't cost me. The HOLO short SIM was just stopped for -25 ticks. Most mistakes cost me. This time I made a mistake that saved me $250. Lucky me I ...

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I will take this HOLO short in my own live account if it triggers. For the reasons stated above, I will not be taking it in the prop account as their rules really make it an uncertain situation as I would be forced to exit the trade at 10:28 if it ...

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I did a small long scalp on the pullback to the 8 ema and used M5 ATR for target, so now instead - 11 ticks I am +3 ticks. Probably going to leave CL alone at least until after the NYSE open, even if it triggers a HOLO short by trading back down to ...

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A word about the Tradovate Platform. It fairly sucks. You MUST be certain to go into the main panel and click "exit all positions and cancel all" because the platform does not do a good job of canceling orders after a stop loss or take profit is ...

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The blue arrows & lines are target prior support/resistance price levels. Super strong bull breakout mode. The new highest open is $79.12. image

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Oil is in breakout mode and the move, while slow, is strong. Today oil inventory data is released at 10:30 AM NYSE time. Makes one wonder whether someone knows something or if this one of those old-fashioned "sell the news" set ups. CL not even ...

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-11 ticks on HOLO short, with a sell stop to enter a second HOLO short. Unfortuantley, the second HOLO entry is right at yesterday's high. The oil market is in breakout mode. Reversal trades should be traded with caution. I will use a -10 tick stop ...

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FF member @slightlyodd has been posting recently at @tooslow's thread "Highest Open Lowest Open" and he trades NQ using M15 and M60 HOLO. I'm going to do some studying on using the HOLO for NQ trading. One thing I seem to remember from my back ...

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One of my favorite NQ set ups image

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I am done trading for the day. NQ reached my profit stop. CL max number of trades is two. I will continue to trade 1 lots tomorrow on both CL and NQ.

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The second HOLO long went to the +50 tick take profit target. -25, +50 = +25 ticks on the day. I stretched the profit target in the prop account by a few ticks to help cover commissions (I used the price level noted by the blue arrow on this chart ...

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I had someone message me the other day asking why I only showed part of chart and suggested I was "hiding" my losing trades. These trades are marked in real time by the trading platform software itself, not me. As you can see, I did not trade in the ...

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Today is day 1 of the TPT NQ account. I am done as my last trade was stopped on a trailing stop and the net profit for the day is $1000. That is not mygoal; however, when I gfind myself at $1000 or more net profit/contract traded, e.g. today I ...

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First HOLO long was -25 ticks. This is the second HOLO long of the day. As the second trade of the dfay, win or lose, this will be my last CL trade for today. image

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SIM trade HOLO Long. I can't do this trade right now in the prop account because of the red news trade embargo. If this were live I would keep the stop loss to a full -25 ticks rather than one tick below the current low of day because of the red ...

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The two prop firms with whom I ma trading both have trade restrictions around certain red news events, one of which is CPI data, which gets released at 8:30 AM. TD requires NO trading 2 minutes before news until 2 minutes after news. TPT requires no ...

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An M5 candle finally broke outside the range of that large M5 candle, so stop loss is now one tick above the new break down candle high Again, this is a sim trade and I am not doing it in the prop account. image

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Since the 821 chart is now short, i.e. it is now aligned with the direction of the current HOLO trade, I move the stop loss down to one tick above the most recent closed five minute candle. However, in this case, there are now three 5 minute candles ...

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I sim traded this HOLO short, ed. See the stop loss is not quite above the high of the day. That is because a stop above the high would be larger than my max loss of -25 ticks. image

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