A massive day for the markets - an OK one for us

Mark Sear • Mar 03, 2021

$95 on micros or $950 on minis in the first hour

The markets have been brutal for the past few days for individual traders.  Massive candles and brutal moves.  Wether you can take a move or not depends almost entirely on the size of your account.  Today we traded micros because the volatility was leading to $1000 candles on the NQ - too rich for us.  Of course you will read other companies claiming they made $10k or more today but we'd rather be honest. 


There is no way anyone can trade with 20 point stops on an eMini and over 100 points on the NQ mini. 


Tomorrow is another day ..... we survive.

Live trading track record @ 03 March 2021


European session: $0 (total)

First session US : +$950


71 trading days with consecutive profits.

226 winning trades, 7 losing, 5 break even.


Trading room profits since 4 Jan 2021:


+$25,643.50


Last 10 trades: WWLWLLLWWW


Note: we live trade a mix of mini and micro contracts on NQ/ES/YM

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