This is the first trading recap for Apex and Precision, but not the first trading day. I have been trading the 45 accounts (20 Apex and 25 Precision) since I opened them, which was prior to my Welcome Post.
Daily Recap
When the ES RTH opened today, there was a strong and violent move up in the first 5 seconds that set my senses on fire. Based on that large move up, with a topping pattern, and then immediately back down, I disqualified 2 of my ES trades. As the morning progressed, the ES and NQ sold off in unison and I eventually had a short setup on the NQ. I entered on a rather large down move and when the market moved back up to hit my first add-in, I decided I wanted to exit the trade sooner than later (I didn’t like price action, or my entry location), so I exited with approximately $30 in profit per account and stopped trading. Even though the market would have moved to my ultimate profit target, I am still happy that I made good trading decisions and cumulatively I am happy with the profit across accounts (even if not happy profit per account is very low).
TradingView → NinjaTrader 8 conversion. Part of our free, non-repainting library of converted indicatorsBill Williams fractals — five-bar pivots where the middle bar’s high is highest (or low is lowest) — are a clean structural primitive but useless on their own as a trade signal. BigBeluga’s Fractals Trend takes the next step: store the most…
If you’re trading the futures market (e.g., ES, NQ, CL) using a prop firm, you’ve likely faced this question: Should I go through an evaluation phase or pay more upfront for a straight-to-sim funded account? As someone who actively trades and manages multiple prop accounts, I’ve been testing both approaches. In this post, we’ll walk…
Part of the Learn NinjaScript course. A free, structured path from your first indicator to machine learning — see all lessonsAt the end of Calculate Modes, we looked at an arrow-on-condition indicator that behaved differently depending on whether it was running on historical bars or live ticks. The fix in that post was a draw-cleanup…
Part of the Learn NinjaScript course. A free, structured path from your first indicator to machine learning — see all lessons“How many bars since the last cross?” “How many bars has price been above the SMA?” Bars since a condition was met is one of the most-reused small patterns in NinjaScript — a single int…
A free NinjaTrader 8 Renko bar type whose bricks get narrower the further a run extends — so momentum reads as bar density instead of bar size. Here’s the idea, how it behaves, what it costs you, and the download. When I started out, I couldn’t keep up with the ideas. Every few weeks there…
Let’s be real — trading isn’t just charts, indicators, and setups. It’s you vs. your own brain most of the time. One second, you’re calmly waiting for your setup. The next? You’re chasing an entry you know you shouldn’t take… and beating yourself up the whole way down. That voice in your head? That’s your…
