Et tu, Brute?

Mark Sear • Mar 15, 2021

No need for Brutus, watch how I stabbed myself on the back ....

A good trader training session today as the markets totally played ball with our numbers.  What do we mean by that?  Quite simply that the daily support and resistance numbers we had from before the market open (in fact from the close of the prior day) were spot on.  In this sequence of trades you will see three trades generating $1090 on minis or $109 on micros.  Either way there were three sweet trades and all profitable.  At the end of the session, we left with a trade running taken right off of our interim daily support number on the YM.  We closed it a few minutes later for a nice 34 points profit but we don't count that trade as part of our track record.


To quote Shakespeare:


Soothsayer.     Beware the ides of March.

Caesar.      What man is that?

Brutus.       A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.

Caesar.      Set him before me; let me see his face.

Cassius.     Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.

Caesar.        What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.

Soothsayer.     Beware the ides of March.

Caesar.              He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.


Well, I was a dreamer today and I messed up one trade royally.  Messed up when every trade was a winner?  Yes, I set my stop too close on the YM trade.  We took 27 points but in all honesty?  We could have had 200.  Watch the video and you will see me do it.  But no big deal - you just have to brush these things off, and when you have numbers as good as those Inteligex gives you ... you just relax and wait for the  next trade, which was under thirty minute later.  So there we have it.  Beware the ideas of March?  Nooope.  Its just another day.

Live trading track record @ 15 March 2021


First session US : +$1090 ($109 with micros)


80 consecutive trading days with profits.

245 winning trades, 9 losing, 5 break even.


Trading room profits since 4 Jan 2021:


+$32,129


Last 10 trades: WWWWWWWWWW


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


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