05:00:38 {austinp1} Great Morning!
05:00:56 {austinp1} <<Timed Camera (1.0s) On>>
05:01:40 {austinp1} [cm pattern] in 6E on the fast chart
05:01:49 {austinp1} taking the breaks, either side
05:23:31 {austinp1} long 3145 > out 3135 -10 pips
05:23:36 {austinp1} short 3130
05:28:16 {austinp1} it’s a wanderlust tape overnight, which often continues into the morning
05:28:27 {austinp1} no real consolidation to break from on the slower charts
05:28:39 {austinp1} could be choppy for awhile, we’ll see 
05:33:21 {austinp1} stopped and long 3148
05:33:52 {austinp1} obviously news here
05:33:59 {austinp1} stop 3150
05:34:22 {austinp1} stopped at 3142 from 3130 short
05:34:55 {austinp1} 70-pip upside burst
05:36:03 {austinp1} stop 3160
05:39:33 {austinp1} +12 pips / – 10 pips
05:39:50 {austinp1} just a chop & pop tape, all night
05:40:10 {austinp1} I’m idle until the next squeeze = new pattern setup
05:40:13 {austinp1} or tomorrow
05:40:19 {austinp1} whichever comes first
06:01:20 {austinp1} sometimes the FX markets chop – coil for a day or two… setting up for the next 100 – 300 pip run
06:01:28 {austinp1} this may be one of those
06:05:35 {austinp1} squeeze + pattern in 6E
06:09:34 {austinp1} 3142 > stop 52
06:39:05 {austinp1} -10 pips / -20 pips
09:04:02 {austinp1} as it turns out, my stop at 6E 3152 was the exact high tick… before it dove to 3090 from there
09:04:07 {austinp1} that’s trading
09:06:11 {austinp1} years ago when I was an immature trader, that type of thing would have eaten me alive
09:06:23 {austinp1} back then I was focused on what I missed out
09:06:30 {austinp1} wrong mental attitude
09:06:57 {austinp1} now that I am a mature and complete trader, the only thing I care about is what’s compiled by month’s end
09:07:18 {austinp1} what gets missed, what gets “left on the table” means absolutely nothing to anyone
09:07:25 {austinp1} probably less than nothing
09:07:41 {austinp1} the only thing that matters to you & me is a month-end tally
09:07:58 {austinp1} everything else is simply part of each day’s normal grind
09:11:17 {austinp1} today is non-farm payroll Thursday
09:11:39 {austinp1} eminis usually chop and drift all day, or make one morning swing and then chop & drift & wedge all afternoon
09:12:43 {austinp1} non-farm (1st) Thursdays each month, expiry (3rd) Thursdays each month and triple-witch Thursdays (Mar, Jun, Sep and Dec) are pretty much avoids for me
09:13:18 {austinp1} taking this 6E [cm pattern] break long 3120
09:13:42 {austinp1} holding for distance… +40 pips or better if stop holds
09:13:58 {austinp1} also squeeze + pattern on 1,000 tick swing chart
09:14:12 {austinp1} entry there on 1000-tick was 3112
09:14:25 {austinp1} a few pips higher on this chart is irrelevant, overall
09:34:31 {austinp1} 6E is boxed up inside another squeeze sequence
09:34:44 {austinp1} looking for open range to establish in TF
09:50:39 {austinp1} short TF 808 > stop 810
09:51:21 {austinp1} CM RoadMaps below for today are 801+ and 798+
10:01:11 {austinp1} -2pts stopped TF
10:01:26 {austinp1} one more trade using a -1pt stop and done for the day there
10:13:48 {austinp1} buying TF 810.50 > stop 09.50 on a pullback
10:14:04 {austinp1} holding 6E long 3120 > stop 3120
10:22:01 {austinp1} cancel TF
10:22:04 {austinp1} blow & go mode
10:23:32 {austinp1} holding 6E long with stop at par
10:23:39 {austinp1} in & out of office until 4pm
10:23:47 {austinp1} back in a few… have fun
10:43:32 {austinp1} back…
10:43:44 {austinp1} long 6E 3120 > stop 3140
10:44:07 {austinp1} 3175 print hits #1 cm pattern premeasured objective
10:44:18 {austinp1} 3200 zone is #2 magnet
10:48:01 {austinp1} long 3120 > stop 3170
11:34:57 {austinp1} 6E out at 31.70 for +50 pips / +30 pips cumulative
11:36:03 {austinp1} TF pending a key-reverse sell confirm
11:38:01 {austinp1} if they merely chop & spurt around, no fill and done for the day
11:38:08 {austinp1} volume is non-existent
11:38:14 {austinp1} nobody is trading anything
11:38:30 {austinp1} 812.00 > 813.00 staged
11:38:50 {austinp1} gone from the office for a few hours… back sometime before the 4:15pm closing bell
11:38:54 {austinp1} see you whenever
15:29:11 {austinp1} back…
15:29:25 {austinp1} short 812 > stop 812
15:29:40 {austinp1} she’s a typical non-farm payroll Thursday
15:30:11 {austinp1} save a snapshot of this chart for future reference… what 10 out of 12 first Thursday of month sessions look like
15:58:05 {austinp1} well… might as well keep this one into the close
15:58:16 {austinp1} unless it gets popped out first, I see no reason to exit
16:01:13 {austinp1} nope… popped, chopped and stopped
16:01:22 {austinp1} comatose, wedge-range session
16:01:39 {austinp1} just like 5 out of every 6 non-farm payroll thursdays
16:01:54 {austinp1} see you tomorrow at 8:00am est
16:02:10 {austinp1} get to sleep in and ignore the charts until the non-sense report has cleared
16:02:14 {austinp1} see you then!
16:02:18 {austinp1} <<Timed Camera (1.0s) Off>>
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Been a fine week so far… no real need to trade tomorrow at all if we feel like taking the session off. I’ll have a look at the tapes past 8:30am to 10:30am, and that pretty much wraps up my week. Not opposed to holding a morning trade into the late afternoon, with orders to close all at 4:12pm est staged market exit.
We’ll see how they all unfold. No idea, no opinon, no concern. Whatever the markets opt to do is how we’ll react accordingly. After all… what more is there to do than that? :)
Trade To Win
Austin
