Futures back to Forex, on to Finance

Getting Started in Futures by Lofton (2005) complete.  Less helpful in terms of immediate applicability in trades, more helpful in understanding how futures are similar to options, stock, and forex trading.  The tools are the same.  Lofton discussed how RSI, MACD, stochastics, EMAs, and volatility index are calculated. That's helpful to know where the technical indicators are coming from.  There are times in my own analysis where hand calculations seem appropriate.  Then, it's realized that the trend or range being calculated existed within an indicator available on MT5 or tradingview.com.   Studying and following commodities can be as intensive as studying currencies, and there is definite overlap, because it's all trade after all, and that's the purpose of the currency in the 1st place.

Moving forward.

The strategy is still under development on the new platform (tradingview).  For now, MT5 on the phone:

1. Risking 3% of $4746 ($142) in USDCHF for a buy, not considering market open/closing; simply getting back out there, ending this dry spell. 
2. A sell limit order on USDCHF. Hedging was explained in the last book too. Either the trade will be positive, or neutral because of the purposeful, opposing trades.
3. EURUSD, 10 pip SL, another 3%, buying at a 20pip TP
4. USDJPY, sell with SL:TP 10:20.

It's much harder to see this stuff just using the mobile app. As quickly as this was written, -$40 on the USDCHF trade because I fucked up the pips. Thankfully, it was a mistake <3 div="">

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Futures

More studying has been done this morning from the book Getting Started in Futures Trading.  Basically, commodities run the show. All other things are pretty similar in form to trading stocks, options, and foreign currencies.

Granted, there's a new set of rules, sizes, conversions, delivery dates, etc. Still, the math is simple once practiced, and the analysis goes back to fundamental and technical tools that occupy other areas of trading and investing.

Oil, coal, silver, gold, platinum, cocoa, soy beans; all make up the commodities that are watched closely. Some are seasonal, some year round.  The big take away is to see how these things affect the forex markets.  "How's this info going to make me money?" is always the question.

Patience is the name of the game.  More trades will be placed in the weeks to come utilizing limit and stop orders in the strategies mentioned weeks ago.  I've decided to use MT5 (app on phone) along with trading view (on the PC).  The latter is still new and more time needs to be dedicated to utilize the tools fully. There are a lot of pluses. The strength of technical indicators is a definite plus. There's much less math needed on the daily when one truly understands the indicators.  Confirmations can be amazing.  That's it for today.  We're back in full swing.