[jonbig04]

took a stop today for -1.5 too lazy to post the chart, unless someone wants it. had a little s/r trouble.

[MidKnight]

Man...that is lazy!

[jonbig04]

lmao, yea yea

[jonbig04]

I had one of (if not THE) worst week ever last week, finishing at -7. Yech! I have narrowed down what I think were the main factors in my shittyness:

Crappy S/R. We were in new territory and the only level I had was 940, which did flip a few times and hold (giving me a false sense of security haha). However I should have recognized on 6/3 that the level was no longer valid when we reversed 7 points above it. Instead I stubbornly decided to keep playing that level when the new level continued to be impressive. I was slightly off on my other level of 927, it wouldn't have made a difference but the level should have been 923 (which I only could have known after the fact). I also have a new level in between that I didn't have until now. Anyways the crappyness came from trying to play 940 when it was so obviously INSIDE the range and not the extreme. stupid stupid, that's OK though. The problem is that I have to be careful when adjusting s/r, because even the best levels don't work all the time, and its a lack of discipline to go adjusting too often, but this week I really should have taken a step back before things got this way. Lesson learned though.

I think now its going to be a matter of picking good S/R (and making necessary adjustments), and making better entries. I have no magic numbers or silver bullets to help me. Just more screen time. I need to be able to recognize patterns on the 5 sec more quickly, and to realize when the market is telling me that I'm wrong. There's no short cuts. Anyways I'm not too bummed, one good trade will more than take care of all the losses (which is a pysche benefit of large r/r )

New levels are 947, 933.25, 923

[jonbig04]

haha dicked by 2 ticks again, nothing I could have done better though. -1 on the day, but I did everything I was supposed to.

[jonbig04]

+5 or 0 lol hmmmmmmmmmmm

[MidKnight]

Hi john,

I cannot understand that happening live, but can understand that happening in sim if your broker feed is using snapshot data then it can miss the extreme ticks and in situations like this, not get a fill in the simulator. If it was live, I can't see any way you would not have gotten filled if your limit order was in there and accepted by the exchange before it traded 2 ticks above.

My best,
MK

[AgeKay]

Agree with MidKnight. You would have definitely gotten filled if you traded live. The reason you did not get filled on the Ninja Trader Sim is because their simulator is total crap. Their magic fill algorithm makes no sense (among other things). It seems the developers of Ninja Trader do not understand how the exchanges match orders, which is actually pretty simple.