[emios]

If you're trading that kind of volume: I have three words for you: dark liquidity pool.

[brownsfan019]

Originally Posted by Dinerotrader »

The big problem I see with entering at higher volume times with a larger order is you don't know if that volume will dry up and you will be left trying to exit a position with very few trades happening.

Taking this further; once I get my 100 lot order in on the CL, my understanding is that I also have to figure out how to conceal my stop loss from other seeing it or a large trader might close in to stop me out. Does that mean I can't have my stop loss sitting on my DOM for execution?

In theory dinero, if someone knew that you had a 100 lot stop loss order sitting somewhere they could gun for you. In theory.

I think this discussion is heading into way off left field and it's not something any of us, myself included, need to be concerned about. When you start making consistent profits with 1 contract and then 2 and then maybe 3 you'll see what I mean. It's going to take years (if ever) for any of us little guys to be pushing 100 CL's at a time.

So it's an interesting discussion about theories and guesstimates, but I think we should nip it now. If you want to open your own thread and run with it there, please do. I just don't want the p/l thread to get way off track. I can move these posts to the thread if you start one.

[method]

Originally Posted by subterfuge »

Looks like a CMC screenshot to me? I used to use them.
Good trading.

Yeah it's CMC. What market/s do you trade?

BTW no trade today

[subterfuge]

Originally Posted by method »

Yeah it's CMC. What market/s do you trade?

BTW no trade today

ES mainly, although am trading more and more currency futures at the moment.

[JEHs]

Trading P&L, week 1/4-1/8/10.

[Cory2679]

Originally Posted by Cory2679 »

...I'll post weekly P/L...

Hey guys,

I almost forgot to post my weekly P/L over here!

It's probably because I don't even want to think about this week's P/L.

Trading went all right, I just made a stupid mistake on my platform and paid for it:

Originally Posted by Cory2679 »

...last night, I had gone short on the EJ (longer term, PT1 @ about 60 ticks), and had thought I moved my stop to BE but I made a careless mistake and entered the wrong number. Anyways, the end of the story is that my account is now at $201.19.

I'm VERY, VERY angry with myself. If there was an award for the dumbest mistake a trader's ever made, I truly think I've earned it. It's probably best that I didn't take any trades today (due to my mental state after seeing the loss) and that I just demo trade tomorrow and have the weekend to recharge and get back on track.

I think my state of mind is probably the worst possible for trading right now. I'm a mess. I had my mistakes from Tuesday, which at least still left me up about 15% for the week. But, now this?! I think "bad" emotions in trading can definitely have a snowball effect.

I've decided to refund my account to put it at $250 again, and "start over" next week. This week has been an utter disaster. I'm sure anyone who was cheering me on in my progress has got to be pretty disappointed.

BUT, I'm going to try to stay positive...I think there's a lot for me to be positive about right now in my trading. Starting FRESH next week!

I've posted two images - the true end of the week P/L (with the deposit to make it even again), and the "before disaster" P/L.

-Cory

[subterfuge]

+650
Possibly another new best day? 2nd new best day this year, lol.

[Dinerotrader]

1/11/09: +487

Natural gas decided to break major support so I had to take the hit. Great R/R on it so it was the right trade but it didn't work out. Oil looked choppy enough that I decided that I should trail a little closer today but hindsight is telling me otherwise. Good day though for me especially since it seemed like everything was in slowmo for a while. Corn made the move I was expecting but I was moving so slow I had to cut it short. Had to quit at 11:00 ET.

Nice trading Subterfuge!

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