Trading Technicians

A Better Stop Loss for Day Trading Futures

Interested in Day Trading Futures and Controlling Risk? This post is about day trading futures and managing risk per trade with tight stop losses. I recently made some changes to my automated trading strategies that reduces the maximum risk per trade and in my opinion improves overall performance. If you look at the distribution of...

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Trading System Performance Psychology

Crude Oil Trading System Performance Results Performance in May for my crude oil futures trading system called Evolution Oil has been great. The system gained $3097.50 for each full sized Light Sweet Crude Oil (CL) futures contract traded and $1450.00 for each E-mini Crude Oil (QM) contract traded. This includes $25 per trade for slippage...

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Crude Oil Trading System Example Long Trade

Using an Oil Trading System To Profit From Rising Crude Oil Prices After a quiet few days, we had a nice long trade from my crude oil trading system today. We got filled at 99.21 and sold before the close at 100.13 for a net profit of $920 per contract. It seems like there was...

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