20151214
Long 1 TF 1123.2, -0.7 (Dec contract)
Long 1 TF 1117.0, -1.4
Short 1 TF 1117.7, +2.0
Long 3 TF 1110.0, 1109.0, 1109.6, -0.0, -0.1, +1.0
Long 3 TF 1108.5, 1107.3, 1107.8, -0.0, +2.0, +1.0
Total TF +3.8
My mentor always use to say, "Position yourself to be surprised." Of course, he said a lot of things and was full of market wisdom and witticism. But later on, I came to realize that what he must have meant by that was always to trade on your technical price and pattern models as they appear at hand before you, and often enough those unexpected news spikes just seems to appear. ....sometimes as if the market somehow had its own sort of prescience. Today was just such a day..., but I ignored the rule of Serial Sequent to be a buyer just before a big vertical news pop appeared as if out of nowhere. (Someone later told me it was Draghi-speak, but it makes little difference what the source.) Pay attention to the models at hand. In order to be able to act on them, you must be able to see them coming in advance, on a what-if basis. Be the Plan.
