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| Session Start: Wed Feb 14 09:27:52 2007Session Ident: #futurestrades |
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<eminitrader> | morn all | 09:28 |
<szubaark> | gm |
<asuni> | gm niha, et, gm all |
<eminitrader> | missed some nice set-ups yest :(( |
<PapaJon> | gm all |
<eminitrader> | morn A | 09:29 |
<jperl> | ER2 VWAP data.... |
<NihabaAshi> | Good morning all. |
<jperl> | yesterday: 812.72 |
| 1 week: 813.13 |
<pat255> | gm all |
<jperl> | 1 month: 800.08 |
<pat255> | niha jper emini | 09:30 |
<jperl> | 1 year: 746.04 |
| gm |
<asuni> | hi pat | 09:31 |
<pat255> | hi asuni | 09:32 |
<eminitrader> | morn pat |
<AmazingJason> | Shorts ER2 @ 815.40 | 09:33 |
| Shorts ER2 @ 815.70 -> Add | 09:35 |
<szubaark> | Shorts NQ @ 1801.25 «« paper »» | 09:36 |
<AmazingJason> | Covered 1/3 ER2 Short @ 814.60 --> + 1.1 | 09:37 |
<pat255> | vn |
<eminitrader> | nice start AJ | 09:38 |
<jperl> | TotalMarket all green this AM | 09:39 |
<szubaark> | Covered all Short NQ at 1802.75 --> - 1.5 «« paper »» | 09:40 |
| Buys NQ @ 1802.50 «« paper »» |
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<RussellDaytrade> | Covered all ER2 Short @ 813.9 --> + 1.3 «« paper »» |
<eminitrader> | nice one RD | 09:41 |
<AmazingJason> | Covered 1/3 ER2 Short @ 814.10 --> + 1.3 |
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<RussellDaytrade> | thx EM, that was an open short from yesterdays close. |
<eminitrader> | k :)) |
<RussellDaytrade> | i already miss not having an open short! | 09:42 |
<eminitrader> | Shorts ES @ 1450.75 | 09:44 |
<RussellDaytrade> | Shorts ER2 @ 814.6 «« paper »» | 09:46 |
<szubaark> | Exited all Long NQ at 1800 --> - 2.5 «« paper »» | 09:47 |
| Shorts NQ @ 1800 «« paper »» |
<eminitrader> | Covered ES Short @ 1450.75 --> 0 | 09:49 |
| Reverse and Enter Long ES @ 1450.75 |
<NihabaAshi> | ER2 volatility has declined nicely...I'm expecting a volatility spike soon. | 09:50 |
<AmazingJason> | Shorts ER2 @ 814 -> Add | 09:51 |
<NihabaAshi> | Shorts ER2 @ 813.90 -> small size |
<AmazingJason> | Shorts ER2 @ 814.90 -> Add | 09:53 |
<NihabaAshi> | Covered ER2 Short @ 813.90 --> 0 |
| Reverse and Enter Long ER2 @ 813.90 |
| Oooops... |
| That's a -1.00 on the small size and I'm now Long with a large size. | 09:54 |
| Long ER2 @ 814.90 -> large size |
<pat255> | Business Inventories @ 9 | 09:57 |
<jperl> | ER2 stalled at VWAP 814.71 | 09:58 |
<Chilly> | Long ES @ 1451.25 «« paper »» | 09:59 |
<szubaark> | Covered all Short NQ at 1803 --> - 3 «« paper »» | 10:00 |
| :( |
<eminitrader> | Exited 1/2 ES Long @ 1453.25 --> + 2.5 |
<AmazingJason> | Covered all ER2 Short @ 814.40 --> + 1.5 |
<Chilly> | Exited 1/3 ES Long @ 1453.25 --> + 2 «« paper »» |
<AmazingJason> | wow damn i got lucky jesus |
<eminitrader> | Exited 1/3 ES Long @ 1454.25 --> + 3.5 | 10:01 |
<NihabaAshi> | Exited 1/2 ER2 Long @ 816.10 --> + 1.2 |
<Chilly> | Exited 1/3 ES Long @ 1454.25 --> + 3 «« paper »» |
<szubaark> | Shorts NQ @ 1804.50 «« paper »» |
<jperl> | TotalMarket shot up like it had a hot poker up its butt |
<AmazingJason> | I had 3 contracts left, i pressed the buttons to cover on that last push down, MB Trading CRASHED |
<RussellDaytrade> | nice reverse on that EM, Niha. |
<AmazingJason> | luckily, it covered, jesus |
<eminitrader> | thx rd |
<RussellDaytrade> | Shorts ER2 @ 817 -> Add «« paper »» | 10:02 |
<AmazingJason> | sigh damn |
| actually i still have some left |
| trade didn't go through |
<eminitrader> | Exited 1/3 ES Long @ 1455.75 --> + 5 |
| holding 1 | 10:03 |
<pat255> | vn em |
<eminitrader> | thx pat |
<AmazingJason> | down for the day before of the crash... |
<szubaark> | Covered all Short NQ at 1810.25 --> - 5.75 «« paper »» |
| crap.. |
<Chilly> | Exited 1/3 ES Long @ 1456.00 --> + 4.75 «« paper »» |
<PapaJon> | what the hell did bernie say? |
| if anything? |
<jperl> | he did say something | 10:04 |
<eminitrader> | be long :) |
<RussellDaytrade> | Shorts ER2 @ 818 -> Add «« paper »» |
<NihabaAshi> | Exited Remainder ER2 Long @ 818.00 --> + 3.1 |
<pat255> | vn niha .. |
<ItalianSharp> | bernanke said inflation pressures are diminishing | 10:05 |
| guess that sparked the markets |
<jperl> | niha must have had inside info about bernanke...lol |
<ItalianSharp> | guess the US dollar is gonna get hammered as well |
<eminitrader> | Exited Remainder ES Long @ 1455.75 --> + 5 | 10:06 |
<RussellDaytrade> | culmination of Fridays selloff. :) my early buys that looked so god-awful then, in retrospect, seem pretty-darned astute. i'm thinking these shorts may have a similarity in that regard, just gotta tkae some heat first, and enjoy the high prices | 10:07 |
<NihabaAshi> | Too bad I was on the light side of a Long position. | 10:08 |
<ItalianSharp> | dollar getting hit hard | 10:09 |
<RussellDaytrade> | Shorts ER2 @ 820.8 -> Add «« paper »» | 10:10 |
<ItalianSharp> | we have oil report at 10.30am |
<NihabaAshi> | Long ER2 @ 820.60 -> large size |
| Exited ER2 Long @ 819.90 --> - 0.7 | 10:12 |
| Reverse and Enter Short ER2 @ 819.90 |
<AmazingJason> | Shorts ER2 @ 819.40 | 10:14 |
| Shorts ER2 @ 819.90 -> Add | 10:15 |
<RussellDaytrade> | short 4 at ap 817.6 |
<NihabaAshi> | Volatility dropping...I'm preparing for a volatility spike to either cover a large portion of my position at a WRB or to reverse into a Long position. | 10:17 |
<pat255> | niha em u held before the report ... |
<eminitrader> | yes pat | 10:18 |
<pat255> | nice hmmm i did not ...just did not know which wayit will go |
| vn guys ... | 10:19 |
<NihabaAshi> | Covered 3/4 ER2 Short @ 818.90 --> + 1 | 10:20 |
<pat255> | excellent both of u.. |
<AmazingJason> | Covered all ER2 Short @ 818.80 --> + 1.7 |
<eminitrader> | :))...yep was a nice trade |
<AmazingJason> | Long ER2 @ 819.30 | 10:23 |
| back at breakeven after client crash :( |
<NihabaAshi> | Amazing...I know the feeling...it's happen to me before in the past during one of those "extreme parabolic price movement". | 10:24 |
<RussellDaytrade> | got a t of 817 @ 11:47 et. :) | 10:25 |
<NihabaAshi> | I think it was the first of the Bin Laden capture rumor :( |
<RussellDaytrade> | oops, thats 10;47et |
<AmazingJason> | Exited 1/3 ER2 Long @ 819.60 --> + 0.3 | 10:26 |
<NihabaAshi> | Covered Remainder ER2 Short @ 819.60 --> + 0.3 |
<pat12> | dang got disconnected |
| oil report in 3 min. | 10:27 |
<AmazingJason> | Exited Remainder ER2 Long @ 819 --> - 0.3 | 10:28 |
<NihabaAshi> | Shorts ER2 @ 818.30 -> medium size | 10:29 |
<pdays> | inventories bigger than expected | 10:31 |
<pat12> | all bad news will be ignored imo |
<RussellDaytrade> | will somebody wake me when it hit 816.5 orr so? thx | 10:34 |
| buy limit to cover ER2 short @ 816.9 «« paper »» | 10:36 |
<NihabaAshi> | Volatility has dropped dramatically... | 10:38 |
| I'm expecting a volatility spike here soon. |
<eminitrader> | Long ES @ 1456.50 | 10:41 |
| stops in ...be back | 10:43 |
<NihabaAshi> | Shorts ER2 @ 818.50 -> Add | 10:44 |
| Covered 2/3 ER2 Short @ 817.80 --> + 0.7 | 10:50 |
| Covered Remainder ER2 Short @ 818.10 --> + 0.2 | 10:52 |
| I'm going to email FED Bernanke another "Thank You for Today's Profits" message. |
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<NihabaAshi> | That's 7 out of 7 times when he's produced a parabolic price movement...I was able to profit from it nicely. |
| On that note...I'm taking an early break from trading to spend some time with the spouse. | 10:53 |
<RussellDaytrade> | price stalling and not extending into t in here. thats ok, will just wait some more. |
<NihabaAshi> | 1) It's Valentine's Day 2) ER2 currently in a stable pullback and I don't want to get caught churning my account in it :) | 10:54 |
| Be back later. |
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<pat12> | vn niha ... | 10:56 |
| k guys c u later ...back to office. |
<eminitrader> | Exited 1/2 ES Long @ 1458.50 --> + 2 | 11:14 |
<AmazingJason> | Long ER2 @ 819.80 | 11:15 |
<jperl> | Done for the morning..... |
| here are this mornings trades.... |
| http://charts.dacharts.com/2007-02-14/JP ERL_0129.png |
<werner> | gm all |
<jperl> | trade starting at 10:15 was a LONG that was reversed into a short with large position sizing | 11:16 |
<AmazingJason> | Exited 1/2 ER2 Long @ 820.10 --> + 0.3 | 11:19 |
| Exited Remainder ER2 Long @ 820.20 --> + 0.4 |
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<eminitrader> | Exited Remainder ES Long @ 1456.50 --> 0 | 12:29 |
<RussellDaytrade> | cancelled all open stop orders «« paper »» | 12:57 |
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* NihabaAshi_away | is now known as NihabaAshi | 13:38 |
<NihabaAshi> | Shorts ER2 @ 819.20 -> small size | 13:54 |
| Covered ER2 Short @ 818.90 --> + 0.3 | 14:02 |
<eminitrader> | Long ES @ 818.70 | 14:20 |
| paper 1 pt stop | 14:21 |
| assume 3 contract size |
| Exited all ES Long @ 817.70 --> - 1 | 14:23 |
<pat255> | oh my all bulls.... | 14:24 |
| em u trading ER? |
<eminitrader> | lot to learn on the er...pa is so different compared to es | 14:25 |
| paper |
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<pat255> | yup...good... |
| amazing 2 days | 14:29 |
<eminitrader> | missed yest action | 14:30 |
<szubaark> | hi pat.. yeah i got caught Short at the upspike :( Bernake speech did it |
<pat255> | sorry szu... |
| glad i did not S...but missed the up moce.. | 14:31 |
| Niha comment this am was pertinet |
| on Bernake..just buy |
<codehead> | short YM 12774 <paper> | 14:36 |
| stop 12781 <paper> | 14:37 |
<ItalianSharp> | some nice profit takin on ER...the big boys definetely didnt do anything to hide it...lol |
<szubaark> | u saying this upmove today is Profit taking disguised under "Bernake speech"? | 14:38 |
<eminitrader> | :)) | 14:41 |
| looks like the ER may retest 820.50 - 821.50 area | 14:42 |
| Shorts ES @ 1460.50 | 14:46 |
| 4 tick stop ...be back | 14:47 |
<ItalianSharp> | szu: no, i am saying the last down-spurt was profit taking from the prior upmove courtesy of bernanke | 14:48 |
<codehead> | exit YM b/e <paper> |
| bad fill ;-) |
<ItalianSharp> | the move that occured from 819 to 816.50 around 14.25 | 14:49 |
<RussellDaytrade> | Covered all ER2 Short @ 816.9 --> - 814.6 «« paper »» | 14:50 |
| anybody else out there using IB and have their charts stalling / not updating on an intermitten basis? | 14:53 |
<eminitrader> | es doesn't want to move down :( | 14:58 |
<jperl> | I'm done for the day.....some profits | 14:59 |
| http://charts.dacharts.com/2007-02-14/JP ERL_0131.png |
<eminitrader> | Covered ES Short @ 1460.50 --> 0 |
| Reverse and Enter Long ES @ 1460.50 |
<RussellDaytrade> | looks like net 120-139 or so | 15:00 |
<eminitrader> | all indices aligned for a upmove |
<RussellDaytrade> | 120-130 |
<jperl> | yes ....looks about right |
<RussellDaytrade> | beats a poke in the eye, wtg, large exposure on that morning short scale in, you muast been under some heat, glad it worked out. | 15:02 |
<jperl> | never under any heat RD.... |
| Just manage the trade |
<RussellDaytrade> | usually an opportunity in desguise, just don't always feel like it. | 15:03 |
| good work JP. |
| Shorts ER2 @ 818.6 «« paper »» |
| good, get to begin over from a higher ap |
<jperl> | Once you decide what your daily risk tolerance is, everything else will fall into place |
<RussellDaytrade> | gdit, my charts are on gain off again, all fkn day long today, those fb's at IB. | 15:06 |
<eminitrader> | Exited all ES Long @ 1460.50 --> 0 | 15:09 |
<RussellDaytrade> | Covered all ER2 Short @ 817.4 --> + 1.2 «« paper »» |
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<pat255> | c u all later ty |
<RussellDaytrade> | todays trades in one sim acct, net 540 in that acct, simialr trades in another with same results, net 500. :)...i miss having an open short. | 15:23 |
| manunevered those trades a little better, took some in when i was up, then put them back out, in smaller size as it went back up, a couple times, took it all in on that first good drop, flat now. | 15:28 |
| i like the way the er trades, i find it...predictable, sometimes i can even set my watch by it! :) had set an earlier t of 814.5 or thereabouts, and had estimated it to fulfill near an hour and a quarter ago, when i set it it was 4 hours from its expected arrival, and i figured that would suffice, (those far out t's in time are a little more of a challenge to dial in, time-wise...newsflash!!! | 15:33 |
| dow up a hundo, er flat, rally ain't gonna last, its a goner, right from here most likely. | 15:34 |
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<NihabaAshi> | ER2 has retraced that entire parabolic price move we saw earlier this morning. | 15:53 |
| Long ER2 @ 815.80 -> small size | 15:54 |
<RussellDaytrade> | who'd a thunk it!? |
| :) | 15:55 |
| 806-807 by eod tomorrow | 15:56 |
<NihabaAshi> | Long ER2 @ 815.60 -> Add | 16:00 |
| Long ER2 @ 815.20 -> Add |
| All 1 contract entries. |
| Exited 1/3 ER2 Long @ 815.90 --> + 0.7 | 16:01 |
| Exited 1/3 ER2 Long @ 816.20 --> + 0.4 |
| Exited Remainder ER2 Long @ 816.60 --> + 0.8 | 16:02 |
| I'm done for the trading day. |
<RussellDaytrade> | you sure, there a whole 12 minutes of trading left? :) | 16:03 |
<eminitrader> | lol |
<RussellDaytrade> | thanks for that, have a good one everyone. | 16:04 |
<werner> | gn all | 16:09 |
<NihabaAshi> | Take care all and see all tomorrow. | 16:21 |
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* DisconnectedSession | Close: Wed Feb 14 16:26:06 2007 | 16:26 |
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