Sometimes I like to use volume based triggered stop. I used it a lot, both for entries and exits when I traded from CQG Trader. I know they have the technique also in X-Trader, and lately I found out it could also be used in NinjaTrader, although only for stops, not entries. In the video, [...]
This morning I saw a perfect opportunity on the EuroStoxx. Unfortunately for me, my eyes was a little too focused on the Bobl at the time. The play is that there are very large offers just above a high volume price node, and you know that IF they get pulled, there will at least be [...]
A nice little scalp at the end of the day. It was late in the day for me, so I was just about to call it a day, but then I saw these huge offers on 10, 30 and 5-year T-Notes. In hindsight it would have been better to hold on to the trade longer, [...]
Last week I did a post on cutting cost. Unfortunately I was a little bit hasty with my assumptions. Not that you can´t trade without monthly fee, it was more about the quality of the feed. After reading John Gradys at nobsdaytrading blog post on the difference between Kinetick feed and TT Feed, I contacted [...]
Live webinar, recording Today, I hosted a live trading webinar, trading the US Treasuries. I was able to catch a very good entry, I thought I´d share with you. I did eventually scratch the trade when I didn´t feel the momentum was with me any more, and of course that was the wrong decision in [...]
In the beginning 1983, my dad bought an IBM PC. It was brand new, running MS-DOS 1.0. I was 12 years old by then. Other kids were playing video games with their Ataris, VIC20 or best of them all, C64. I was never hooked on video games, instead I wanted to create programs myself. One [...]
When I started to trade, about a year ago, it was mostly because of the intellectual challenge. Everybody have their reason to trade, might it be for excitement, money or what not, but I now realize I wanted to beat the game. When I started my former IT consulting company, some 16 years ago, it [...]
One thing that I´m working on right now, or should I say, have been working on for quite a while: Holding on to trades a bit longer, letting them mature. I´m a scalper, so it´s not that I have to have any sleepless nights or so, I´m talking holding on for a couples of minutes [...]
I´m in constant hunt for reducing cost and optimize my trading experience. Since September 2012, I´ve been using NinjaTrader platform with Jigsaw Depth&Sales indicator, CQG as my execution platform and DTN IQFeed as my data feed provider. I´ve been more than happy with my configuration, except that the CQG and Jigsaw combination hasn´t been optimal, [...]
This is my new screen setup. Not too unlike the one I had before. Far left (JigsawTrading Depth&Sales) is the 5-year T-Note with Volume histogram, bids&offers and current trades at each price. Second to the left is 30-year T-Note, same columns as 5-year. In the middle, there´s the 10-year T-Note with buy button, current trades, [...]
