What can you set you apart and put you in the top 20% of traders – the winners?
Get a routine make it a habit, it will make you or break you!
So make sure it is a good habit!
Have a trade plan:
- capital and risk per trade
- Set the trading goals, and loss limits for the day and week
- select the system and instruments
- system template & Workspaces
- Schedule when to be at the trading desk and set the system in action and when to pause.
Pre-Session
- Check the prior session and view a higher time frame analysis to get the bigger picture of the story of the market
- Set a bias for the session long or short
- Get the system ready lots and risk and limits 1 trade only or multiple
- Get the trade controllers ready for action with the controls you use at the ready
- Assess if the open is a high probability setup and entry
- Decide to go in half clip or full risk to your plan
- Decide to wait for the first 30 minutes or 5min or 1 minute of the open.
Tactics
- let trades run to the close -scale out
- Increase accuracy and limit drawdowns
- use AlphaWebTrader for correlations and technicals
- trade less not more – trade smarter!
Trade Diary Stats and notes
- For each trade make a screenshot of the entry and any other timeframes
- note the levels, trends, and correlations of technicals, price cycles, market news cycles
- Do this for the exits too! and note the winner or loser… mistake or fair trade.
Maintenance Routine
View help desk article on NinjaTrader Bars and Data
- Futures contract rollover
- Instrument data
- Each day pre-session download and get fresh data
- use the instrument manager and a list
- or refresh the data on the charts!
AFT Session Breakout needs 15 days of data downloaded to get the best consistent results of signals and range and bars.
To stay in sync across multiple desktop PCs this task needs to be performed each day every day pre-session.
Typically download the last 2 days and on weekends download the last 7 to 15 days to get the corrections and back fills.
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