pretty much just a consolidation

    Posted by matt on 11th of Mar 2013 at 02:25 pm

    pretty much just a consolidation day, SPX up 3 1/2 and is sitting right around the R1 pivot. 

    otherwise my experimental 5 min ES system has bee trading this chop pretty well, and Friday was good too, here's a chart.  It uses the same code as the RSI 2 daily strategies from the 'Tradestation Systems' section of the website however it only day trades and does not hold positions overnight (does about 3 - 8 trades per day), It's pretty good, however it's not perfect, still a few things I want to add to it and has the occasional bad day.  Still, however members who have the 'Tradestation Systems, this 5 min system is given to them, as well as others

    system did another trade the

    Posted by matt on 11th of Mar 2013 at 04:07 pm

    system did another trade the last hr, so that's 5 total for the day

    how many pts does the ES system get a day?

    Posted by jen12 on 11th of Mar 2013 at 05:16 pm

    jen12- looks like it does about

    Posted by matt on 11th of Mar 2013 at 10:22 pm

    jen12- looks like it does about 10 - 15 points, and as high as 40 points at times, HOWEVER that is not with one contract, it scales into trades with a maximum position of 4 contacts. today for example it did 5 total trades, the first position and the last position held 3 contracts at once before closing out, two of the trades only 1 contacts, and one trade had 2.  total gain was $775.

    What do you consider a

    Posted by pinguin on 11th of Mar 2013 at 04:34 pm

    What do you consider a day on the /ES? Do you go from SPX open to SPX close? Or use the cash market open and the futures close? 

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