PS. Matt, in my humble opinion you want to cover too much territory but shallowly.  Automated systems can do better than humans most of the time. I cannot beat your ES system, for example. I would stick with indexes, bonds and perhaps precious metals and do that thoroughly, if I were you. Individual stocks are a much larger beast, and a lot more risky when volatility picks up. IMO. I wish you well and thanks for your excellent work, Matt!

Matt's 60-minute systems on ES were not profitable. Stick with daily systems.

I am sorry for your huge loss.

Matt, to answer your questions:

re: SQQQ. No, I would rather short TF. Shorts have not worked at all for a long time. so no trade.

re: ES. I had a buy target of 2830 but no idea for the stop, so I did not take the trade. https://www.insidefutures.com/article/2117340/It%20is%20going%20to%20be%20a%20busy%20week%20in%20the%20ES%20and%20ZB%20futures.htmlgave some numbers for support and resistance.

I took a long on GC (your system no 3, LE ST took a long yesterday), but I am out of that trade now. Profit target of 2.90 is not good enough, and that's all I could get to achieve by optimizing your settings.

I am getting a trend trade  entry on wheat and corn today. FWIW.

ES system is flat. Matt's ES systems are reversion to the mean. For trending markets different systems are used.

Btw, I am getting a long entry on GC today for a trend-trade reversion to the mean system. Swing systems that I know of, are long GC above 1327. For a discretionary trade, one should be short.  My account is flat on GC, waiting for a higher low. FWIW.

That would be a great addition, Matt! Gold, silver, bonds close at 2:40pm and not at 5pm.

I have managed to optimize some of the your long systems for GC, for example. I will share the settings when I have finished all of them. GC trends like nothing else, it should be the easiest market to trade with proper entry points. Your system logic works well on GC with optimizations.

Sorry, I am busy at work. And I lost $40K, which was all I had at the time. I lost everything and did not have money to trade for 3 years afterwards. There are so many people who are in the same position as myself.

It is very ironic that Matt has developed so many trading systems which beats everything I have seen on ES, yet this site is not about trading futures. Indexes are only one 5th of what is out there. Currencies, metals, bonds, agriculture, softs are others. There are fantastic swing opportunities on those, if one looks ahead. I mean no ill to Matt or Steve, but they do not provide with a forward insight. I get very little from being told what has already happened, and what I can see on the chart myself. Sorry, perhaps it is just me who is weird this way.

ES trades 23 hours versus GDX that trades only 7.5. Most of the gains occur out of hours.

I review trades between 5 and 6pm, and enter at 6pm. This works for me. Doing it before 4pm could get me fired from my job. Sorry, that is real.

Retail investors were slaughtered during 2008-2009 period. I lost over $40K in 2008. Well, this year volatility will pick up on both sides and these retail folks will be slaughtered again. Positions must be managed well, and I personally need definite guidance on important levels. Otherwise, trading is not profitable. Yes, this site is not for me for this reason. I have only 3 hours after work for everything to live, and the last thing I wwant to do is to draw my own chart. Farewell. 

With all my enormous respect to Matt and Steve, this is a technical analysis site and hardly a trading site. Matt and Steve should provide trading suggestions to ride established trends from the initial entry to an exit point for the audience they want to focus on. There is no focus here, there is no specific audience in question. They gear this information for daytraders, which excludes pretty much everybody except for very few. I cannot day trade myself as I have a day job.

One could look for something one likes on insidefutures.com, for example. There are too many services who want to tout their subscription without much benefit to the subscribers. Trading systems are expensive, they start from about $200 per month. If you are willing to have something that works well, you should be willing to pay that amount of money. For the amount that BPT charges -- about $50 a month -- one cannot get much except technical analysis or trading recommendations for a single instrument such as ES.

I have had success with systems based on COT data, which is based on fundamentals. Fundamentals are different from technicals, and neither one alone is enough.  Good luck to you!

One site that I consult on on long-term picture is armstrongeconomics.com. But that site is geared for institutional traders, and their fees are really steep. But that's a real deal. Their service for investors is $15/month, and that is based on monthly charts. Still one could get a good picture. And that site does not have a trading system, but the information on it will keep you on the right side of market.

Isn't a swing trader anyone who holds stocks overnight? Or a longer-term hold is assumed?