A win of US $214.32 in this session.
I had a bit of excitement with this trade. I’d made some changes to the trading permissions for the blog account, and when I logged in I was told I was not subscribed to the market data. By the time I sorted it out over the phone, the session was about 4 minutes old, too late to use ToA to pick up on the open – so I decided to trade manually!
What chaos! The IB interface has changed a bit since I last traded manually, and I had no spreadsheets set up for this strategy. It was a mad rush, getting the orders to go in and calculating levels with pencil and paper, but I managed to muddle through.
This strategy requires you to work faster than some of the others I’ve used, and even with 2 minute bars it’s all too easy to make a mistake. As it was, I got through more by luck than judgment! I had forgotten what manual trading does to the stress levels. Thank goodness for ToA!
This has been a pretty tough month so far, but we’ve managed to edge ahead towards the end of this week.