S&P 500 & other indexes - intraday. Plus chat

[robster970]

:clap:

You aren't going to gloat about me using software that isn't ready?

Nor that I should know better?

Very nice of you, sir... being in the industry & all.

I'd gloat to be honest

Of course not Pedro - that's the whole point of participating in/performing an alpha - you find out sh1t like this.

Anyway, I don't need poor performing software to help me loose - look at my first short on Friday http://www.trade2win.com/boards/ind...dexes-intraday-plus-chat-324.html#post1950386 - I can do it all on my own :clap:

 

[DionysusToast]

Stupid bug - got 2 windows open - restarted the one but the other one stayed open without a restart - so for some reason one is showing one thing and the other something completely different.

I thought on Friday I'd set the qty wrong but today I thought there's no way I'd done it again.

So - 2 windows talking to the back end - but not talking to each other. I nailed the low before a 9 point move up and got $50 for it.

The market mocks me. I've yet to make a trading mistake that made me money instead of costing me money. Shouldn't it be 50/50????

 

[DionysusToast]

I think I am going to need some sort of religious intervention here....

 

[DionysusToast]

Try again.

 

[DionysusToast]

Nope - -4 ticks....

 

[JT_MOT]

I'm getting pretty fed up of this 'bad news is good news because we get more QE that we crave' nonsense. Was 5 points onside and back to break even in no time.. pfff. Still in the trade, just looking for a couple of points from here and will call it a day.

 

[Pat494]

Wed Aug 29

2:30am AUD Construction Work Done q/q -0.2% 0.6% 7.8%
All Day EUR German Prelim CPI m/m 0.1% 0.4%
8:00am CHF KOF Economic Barometer 1.57 1.51 1.41
9:00am EUR Italian Retail Sales m/m 0.4% -0.1% 0.1%
1:30pm CAD RMPI m/m 2.1% -4.0%
1:30pm CAD IPPI m/m 0.3% -0.3%
1:30pm USD Prelim GDP q/q 1.7% 1.5%
1:30pm USD Prelim GDP Price Index q/q 1.6% 1.6%
3:00pm USD Pending Home Sales m/m 1.1% -1.4%
3:30pm USD Crude Oil Inventories -1.1M -5.4M
7:00pm USD Beige Book
11:45pm NZD Building Consents m/m 5.7%

 

[Pat494]

fingers crossed

 

[Pat494]

fingers crossed

Tak the small profit imho

 

[Pat494]

Quiet today

:whistling

 

[robster970]

Up 4 ticks today off 2 trades. -4, +8.

 

[JT_MOT]

2 trades for me today as well.. both 2 point winners. Action still very thin so trying to just take whatever I can get.

 

[Pat494]

Thu Aug 30

12:50am JPY Retail Sales y/y -0.8% -0.1% 0.2%
2:00am NZD NBNZ Business Confidence 19.5 15.1
2:30am AUD Building Approvals m/m -17.3% -4.8% -1.0%
2:30am AUD Private Capital Expenditure q/q 3.4% 2.7% 7.7%
8:55am EUR German Unemployment Change 7K 7K
9:10am EUR Retail PMI 46.4
9:30am GBP Net Lending to Individuals m/m 0.9B 0.3B
9:30am GBP M4 Money Supply m/m 0.4% -1.6%
9:30am GBP Mortgage Approvals 47K 44K
Tentative EUR Italian 10-y Bond Auction 5.96|1.3
1:30pm CAD Current Account -15.2B -10.3B
1:30pm USD Unemployment Claims 370K 372K
1:30pm USD Core PCE Price Index m/m 0.1% 0.2%
1:30pm USD Personal Spending m/m 0.4% 0.0%
1:30pm USD Personal Income m/m 0.4% 0.5%
3:30pm USD Natural Gas Storage 65B 47B
Day 1 ALL Jackson Hole Symposium

 

[robster970]

+8 ticks, long at 1400.50, out at 1402.50

 

[robster970]

I would strongly suggest reading this if you are discretionary, have read any Kahneman and liked it or have read any of Andrew Lo's work on Adaptive Market Hypothesis or other works associated with behavioural finance.

This author is a neuroscientist who was once a trader and he dissects from a neurological/physiological PoV what is going on when we make trading decisions, execute, manage, assess risk, etc, etc.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust eBook: John Coates: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

 

[JT_MOT]

Well that's more like it... two trades today. One 5 point winner and this one that is still open. Stop is at break even (with a little breathing room in case of any slippage). I'm planning to hold this into tomorrow hoping that Ben dissapoints big time... my gut feeling is he will. My plan was to hold a short trade with breathing room into tomorrow so very pleased. But who knows, these are crazy times and you never know what might happen.

 

[JT_MOT]

I would strongly suggest reading this if you are discretionary, have read any Kahneman and liked it or have read any of Andrew Lo's work on Adaptive Market Hypothesis or other works associated with behavioural finance.

This author is a neuroscientist who was once a trader and he dissects from a neurological/physiological PoV what is going on when we make trading decisions, execute, manage, assess risk, etc, etc.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust eBook: John Coates: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Gonna put that on my kindle right now, will give it a go on the train tomorrow

 

[Pat494]

Fri Aug 31

12:01am GBP GfK Consumer Confidence -29 -27 -29
12:15am JPY Manufacturing PMI 47.7 47.9
12:30am JPY Household Spending y/y 1.7% 1.2% 1.6%
12:30am JPY Tokyo Core CPI y/y -0.5% -0.6% -0.6%
12:30am JPY National Core CPI y/y -0.3% -0.3% -0.2%
12:30am JPY Unemployment Rate 4.3% 4.3% 4.3%
12:50am JPY Prelim Industrial Production m/m -1.2% 1.7% 0.4%
2:30am AUD Private Sector Credit m/m 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
6:00am JPY Housing Starts y/y -9.6% -9.9% -0.2%
7:00am EUR German Retail Sales m/m -0.9% 0.2% 0.5%
7:00am GBP Nationwide HPI m/m 1.3% 0.1% -0.8%
9:00am EUR Italian Monthly Unemployment Rate 10.7% 10.9% 10.7%
9:00am EUR Italian Quarterly Unemployment Rate 10.6% 10.6% 10.1%
10:00am EUR CPI Flash Estimate y/y 2.5% 2.4%
10:00am EUR Unemployment Rate 11.3% 11.2%
10:00am EUR Italian Prelim CPI m/m 0.3% 0.1%
1:30pm CAD GDP m/m 0.1% 0.1%
2:45pm USD Chicago PMI 53.6 53.7
2:55pm USD Revised UoM Consumer Sentiment 73.7 73.6
2:55pm USD Revised UoM Inflation Expectations 3.6%
3:00pm USD Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks
3:00pm USD Factory Orders m/m 1.7% -0.5%
6:10pm GBP MPC Member Posen Speaks
Day 2 ALL Jackson Hole Symposium

 

[The Leopard]

This has been one of the quietest months I can remember. Thus far I have taken 2 trades, and seen one other opportunity (missed because I was away from my desk for a short period).

That is it.

I'm going to have to think of some strategies for trading ranges.

 

[robster970]

This has been one of the quietest months I can remember. Thus far I have taken 2 trades, and seen one other opportunity (missed because I was away from my desk for a short period.

That is it.

I'm going to have to think of some strategies for trading ranges.

Can you smell a sell-off today?