[TradeRunner]

Originally Posted by brownsfan019 »

The only way to mimic this in sim is to have OEC set your sim account size to the same as your real one. I think the default is $50k. If you want to make it realistic, send a support ticket asking to reset it based on what you think you will start with.

Hi Dinero / Brownsfan

You can do this instantly from your account management web page:



Sorry if that is what you meant but it sounds like you might be sending an e-mail to support.

[edabreu]

Started with a wake up 2am stop out , but got it right. Almost got smacked. I think I will make some coffee, maybe put some trousers on and not trade in my pajamas...
Mr autoentry-bot got me into a couple of good ones, and I got shaken out of the 100 tick long...sigh...

[sappjason]

Welp. My day is done and I wiped out my gains on Friday.
I've learned over the past two years that a good risk size for me (with what I'm doing) is a max of .25% of equity. So, being that I'm trading with about $210K, my max risk size (which includes commission and estimated slippage) is $525 per position. Sometimes (unfortunately), my slippage causes me to even loose more than $525, but that's because I estimate slippage before entry.
Anyway, today just happened to be one of those horrific days when almost every one of my system's trades was a looser... I hate starting the week off having to dig myself out of the hole. But that's unfortunately just sometimes the way the old ball bounces for me.....

Jason

[Mr_black]

p/l so far

[Dinerotrader]

SIM
+$212

What a crappy day. I was down $1,700 at one point, then got stopped out of long positions before the rally by 2 ticks on the 6E and the Russel. Caught the rally on oil and natural gas. Overall, poor entry selection. The gap up this morning threw a lot of confusion into my analysis. I was playing for strength because of the gap and buying support reversals and they just kept stopping me out.

Once I got back to the positive zone I had lost my nerve from fear of going negative again so I had to stop trading.

[sappjason]

Looks like I pulled some cash back in the front door today. I always hope to have a profitable week, but day to day, it's always up-in-the-air. Along side of my normal blotter, I'm going to also include a screen shot of a piece of monitor software that I wrote. My automated trading system is pretty wired as far as monitoring is concerned. I co-locate the server in a local co-location facility near my home and it sends my phone (via text messages) an update every 20 minutes (throughout the trading day) and also texts me when problems arise. I'm also usually connected to my system via remote desktop, but in case I'm somewhere else, I have a web server running on my box that hosts a nice little monitoring application that I've written as well. This second screen shot is from my remote monitoring application. Sometimes (because of the way Interactive Brokers reports unrealized and realized P&L), my worst case line makes a few weird pops and hickups (as you can see in the attached screen shot). Anyway, I love always having a known worst-case throughout the day. It helps me breathe a little easier knowing that "this is as bad as it can get".......

Jason

[thalestrader]

Originally Posted by Dinerotrader »

SIM
+$212

What a crappy day. I was down $1,700 at one point

Any day I find myself down by a nearly 2 grand and finish positive is hardly what I would call a "crappy" day. Be a "half full," not a "half empty" kind of guy, dinero.

Best Wishes,

Thales

[Dinerotrader]

Originally Posted by thalestrader »

Any day I find myself down by a nearly 2 grand and finish positive is hardly what I would call a "crappy" day. Be a "half full," not a "half empty" kind of guy, dinero.

Best Wishes,

Thales

Well, the "crappines" was derived not from the P/L but from my trade executions. Do you ever find yourself getting into trades and sitting there thinking, "what was I thinking entering into this trade?" That happened several times today. I haven't yet had time to nail down why. I would hope I could say I had a good trading day even if my P/L was in the red because of the way I executed my trades.

That all being said, being a complaining, "half empty" person is not my goal.