3/28/2013 +$690 (Natural Gas Storage) JOBB trade 4

Today was an interesting trade. I wanted to see how ninja trader would do trading multiple contracts so I traded with 2 contracts for this release. The fills were both great but for some reason my trailing stop did not trigger. I went thru the setup several times to be certain it was correct and to my eyes it was. Ill contact ninja trader support and let them watch this video also so they can tell me what I did wrong. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

3/27/2013 +$240 (Crude Oil Inventories)

Well we had another winner with JOBB, problem was my cpu froze and ruined the recording. It actually stayed frozen for 2 full minutes. I think i've figured out the problem but time will tell. Anyway this was just a recap of the trade showing profit and chart. I've withdrawn all of my funds from infinity at this point and ill update as to how long it takes to receive the money. Ill be opening an account with global futures once the money arrives. Anyway thats it for now. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

3/25/2013 +$70 (Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks)

This was a very odd trade. Not something i'd usually consider trying. The JOBB system gave stats for it and instructions on how to trade it so I figured i'd give it a try. Ill test it in the future and see how it does. The first trade should of been +$10 as I had a 2 point trailing stop and it went up 3 points in profit but it ended up being a break even trade, same thing happened with the second trade, at one point i was up $100 so trailing stop should of set to $80 but instead it went to $70 which is where it got me out. Skip to the last 20 seconds of the video to see the action. Everything else is slow and boring. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

3/21/2013 +$180 (Natural Gas)JOBB trade 3

Well jobb and ninja did extremely well today. I tested this simultaneously with infinity on another monitor. Infinity lost 20 points while Ninja made 18 point. I've figured out the trailing stop issue I had before and it works perfectly now. Ninja had less slippage and this is important because as you'll see its highly possible this release was leaked. Anway 2 more to go before I go live. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

3/20/2013 -$100 (CNY Flash man. pmi) JOBB trade 2

I have to post the bad trades with the good, and this is a perfect example of a bad trade. A small amount of slippage on a trade is to be expected and is ok but on a trade like this that doesn't make large moves it can be tricky. The trade would of ended in a small profit if i would not of used the auto click. I now know that the trailing stop doesn't work for anything other than trades taken from the super dom or chart. On the infinity platform it didn't matter where you clicked. Once you entered the market the trailing stop took over, knowing this I wont use 2 entry methods with ninja again, either jobb or the auto click. After I've completed 5 trades ill go live and test out ninja trader with real money. This will probably be the last time I attempt this trade, there are much safer options but at least I got the trailing stop to work :-)(Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

3/20/2013 +$120 (Crude Oil Inventories)JOBB trade 1

Well this was my first trade using the JOBB software and also trading with ninja trader and both worked exactly as expected. The execution on ninja was precise but for some reason my trailing stop wasnt triggered. I'm assuming I set something up wrong but that issue should be resolved by the next trade. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

Quick Ninja Trader overview for spike trading

This is just a quick look as i've only been testing this platform for about an hour. I'll test it out with several releases and see how it does. Hopefully it will make a good backup or if it performs better possibly the new main platform I use. Either way I wanted you guys to be able to see more of the options available to you. This platform has 2 versions, one is free and the other is $50 per month. The broker I recommend in the video only requires $500 to open an account and the e mini margins are only $300. So there's no reason everyone cant test.

3/14/2013 30 year bond auction testing

Well today I had the chance to test the 30 year bond auction. I discovered several facts, 1. the news doesnt come out at 1pm on the dot, its usually 30-60 seconds after. 2. I need to adjust my bracket length which I did and 3. this doesnt move as big as i assumed it did. Watch for details.

3/13/2013 +$240 (Australian employment change)

After checking the charts I saw this could be traded with brackets and it would of made money 90% of the time so I decided to test it out. Everything went as planned. We'll have to wait and see how this trade does on smaller deviations because we got a big one this time around and also we had about 6 points of slippage but since its 8:30 at night and liquidity is less I wont complain.

3/13/2013 +$156.25 (10 Year Bond Auction)

Well this was another of the new releases I've come across and I finally got to test it. This trade started off very slow. The move didn't happen until 60 seconds after the release had come out. I'll test it out 3 or 4 more times and see if its consistent and if so ill add it to my regular trading line up. You'll have to excuse my voice as im sick at the moment. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

3/13/2013 +$218.75 (US retail sales)

This trade hasnt trigger thru auto click in a very long time. My normal trigger is a .7 and I used to trade it with cad/jpy in forex and most recently in futures with the mini s&p. After checking the last 6 months it seems that the zb market does move enough for us to make a profit even on a 0 deviation. I'll be testing this for the next couple of months to see how it does. If it continues to act right I'll add it to my lineup of trades to take.

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Trade

Well it seems there are several news events that I had no idea even existed and this is one of them. It seems it can be traded best with corn futures and soybean futures with bracket orders. Below are the  3 previous release charts showing what was possible. This release comes out monthly and is worth researching. Charts below show how both corn and soybean futures reacted to this release. To view release dates and times for this news visit  http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/    
                                                       
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3/8/13 +$1562.50 (Non Farm Payroll)

Well today was my first time getting a trigger off of nfp with infinity and it went perfectly. Both auto click and straddle got good fills and trailing stop worked exactly as expected. I checked s & p e mini and it had a spike of 5 points then retraced to about the halfway mark. $50 per point move x 5 points= $250 x 2 contracts= $500 total profit of which I might of taken between $400-$450. The ZB moved 38 points x $31.25 per point move= $1187.5 x 2 contracts = $2375. Of that move I was able to take $1562 so im very happy I chose to trade the zb over the s&p emini. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)

3/7/13 +$10 (Natural Gas)- Huge Deviation, Possible Leak

Well if any release looked as tho it had been leaked it was this one. The market was clearly moving up in anticipation of this news but I decided to stick to my plan anyway. To be safe you can simply ignore trades when you see this happen. You'll notice in the video that my straddle got me in first and made $140 then auto click got such a bad fill that it lost $130 which left me with $10 in profit. I prefer to take this trade when the market is going sideways in anticipation which shows that were all on even ground but at least this shows that if we use the auto click with the straddle we have a better chance of profiting. If I had only used auto click this would of been a $130 loss. The straddle turned that into a small profit.