How I trade futures

Mini-nasdaq

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:36:00 +0000

Opened short position on mini-nasdaq.

Closing position on sugar

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:50:00 +0000

I'm stopped on my sugar position with profit $1150. Still watching cotton and mini-nasdaq.

Eurodollar and cotton.

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:18:00 +0000

I missed my entry on cotton, hope it gets back. Opened short position on eurodollar today, it's moving against me right now. Sugar and 10 year notes continue to develop.

10-year notes and soybeans

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:44:00 +0000

Today I was stopped on soybeans, lost $ 600, but my total soy positions still showed some profit, about $1300. Also, today I opened long position on 10-year notes.

Mini-nasdaq, mini-soy and sugar trends.

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:44:00 +0000

I stopped my options experiments 3 months ago and don't regret it. Why make it too complicated, futures are more than enough to make decent money. So, what I got since then.
I was a little late catching mini-nasdaq trend (was messing with options, lol). I opened long position on March 14th and exited April 4th with net profit $830 (instead of $6000), still not bad.
I'm sitting on mini-soy trend since Feb 28th, locked $1900, rolled to July contract. I'm supposed to be long with 2 contracts on this trade (with almost double profit), but screwed up with second position (put too close stop order, was stopped).
And I'm short July sugar since Apr 20, current profit $1050, but it can easily vanish, since this down-trend, they are tricky to trade, there can be a lot of up-spikes.
So, we have pretty good trends here, watching at 10-year notes, let's see what happens next.

Coffee put option

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:22:00 +0000

Bought May Coffee put option about an hour ago. Nothing interesting on the rest of the positions, except mini S&P 500 - it's trying to go up.

Canadian dollar call option.

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:02:00 +0000

Today I bought March Canadian Dollar call option.

Long March copper

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:27:00 +0000

Today I bought March copper HGH12 call option. Right now there is pretty strong move against the trend.

Call option on E-mini SP 500

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:19:00 +0000

E-mini S&P 500 getting higher and I bought March call option. Since it's deep-out-of-the-money option and there are only 57 days left to expiration I'm risking to lose the premium if the price won't go up soon.

Closing natural gas position

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:18:00 +0000

I was holding put option for March natural gas since 22 dec. Considering the premium goes down as it's approaching to expiration and upcoming long holidays I decided to sell the option. Selling premium was $950. Opening premium was $280, so net premium is $670.

Stopped on eur/usd

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:35:00 +0000

Euro started to go up, so I was stopped. Since I had 2 mini-lots I had to move my stop to break-even and today it was triggered.

Eur/usd short position

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:32:00 +0000

Downtrend on weekly eur/usd chart continues. I'm short on eur/usd since 29 dec and decided to add position. So now I'm short 2 mini-lots. Moved stop order to break-even.