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Useful links: IG Index FTSEIG Trading Live QuotesFTSE Dividend Adjustments Somnus Demark Based Trading Notes updated 16 July 2016 Click Here To download the Somnus Trading Excel Archive Spreadsheet to 1 July 2016 with Trade Signals and Limit Calculations Click here Somnus Club MT4 Expert Advisor Notes and Installation Instructions Click Here If you are interested in the Somnus Traders Club, please e-mail me at Somnus.Club@btinternet.com providing the following information as you would when joining any other sort of club: Somnus thread and real name, home address, land line telephone number so that I can call you without it costing me and if you wish a mobile number as well. I will ring you one evening (by prior arrangement) so that we can get to know one another. On this thread, the masculine shall include the feminine and the singular the plural.WEALTH WARNING - Spread betting can seriously damage your wealth. All development of the Somnus trading system has been carried out with a full understanding the risks involved and with adequate capital reserves. Please do not use any information from this thread without a full understanding of the risks. Consolidated Trades Record from 4 July 2016 Somnus is based on Tom Demark's system to spot the end of a trend and places automatic EA generated index trades on the GKFX MT4 spread-bet platform. I'm trading the DAX using a trade size based on my bank. A new trade is opened immediately a valid signal appears and the limit is adjusted as the number of trades in a series increases. When the number of open trades in a series exceeds 4, the first trade is closed and a new one is opened with the trade size increased to recover the loss. This is repeated as further trades are added to the series up to the maximum setting and then a new series is started. Updated 1 October 2016 A very satisfactory first week here on MoneyAM and having had quite a bit of contact with their office, including the MD (Bullshare) I'm very pleased with the move. 7 trades closed this week and the profit of £766.93 has raised my 13 week average from £607.97 to £620.20. The projected profit for the year now suggests 90.25% and a simple back of a fag packet calculation using 18.62% a quarter compounded 4 times comes to 97.98%, which is near enough for me. My intention remains to withdraw £1,000 of each £2,000 I make and this will of course affect the results, although I'm pretty sure that with the progress we've made recently I'll still double my bank and hopefully have a little extra on 4 July 2017. I've made a major change to my settings this week, as I've increased my Maximum Trades in Series from 5 to 7 combined with increasing the size from level 6 instead of level 4. Obviously it will be some time before the changes prove whether it was a good idea. The only other idea I've had this week was that bearing in mind the more levels there are open the smaller the difference is between the various TP's, it might be worth increasing the T/P as each level opens. This is something that can easily be done manually as long as you remember to change it back when the series closes and if you are away from your computer at the critical time, it doesn't really matter and there's normally plenty of time anyway. Those who've been around for a while will know that I'm never satisfied, so I'm planning to try it out by adding 1 point at each level and see what happens. Good luck. I'm trading the DAX using the following settings Somnus Performance   To view or update member's current T/P's Click here. To view forthcoming Economic News Click here. Ken Bachelor

Try that FLVT - I've changed your link to display the DAX rather than the FTSE, but I can't find a way of making it display15 minute bars or Sunday prices.

If you would like me to add the FTSE and DOW just say the word.

Ken, as far as the charts above, don't worry; as they are reference only, as we all know what they are; minutes by minutes; as we are all watching all the time. One day; when I finally make mine automated; I won't be watching it for weeks...

As for the spike up you are talking about, now I understand fully; It's there because it is the orders in which how Somnus close the trade when it reaches t/p on a series. I guess that it close all the profitable one first (latest opened one first), hence you have higher profit, next profit one next, etc. so your Equity balance spike up. Now, back down to mother earth, as the losing one get close, one by one. After the closing of a series, the different is just stake * target; +/- a few quids for rounding. Right!

p.s. IG showing is NOT Sunday trading; they are just 3 hrs between 21:00 and 23:59 on Friday. Trading resumes around 23:00 on Sunday, I think.

FLVT - I've done what I can to make the header charts match our trading, but of course they are still only the open market trading hours.

I think that's it for today, so good luck to everyone tomorrow morning.

IG also offers sunday trading in the indices, but they rarely move much and i guess there's not much interest

given the dramatic swings that can occur between close of trade friday in europe/london and the opening on monday, i'm slightly surprised that you leave s/b positions open over w/e

Cynic - We leave our spreadbets open to take advantage of the wild swings that can occur. If they go the wrong way it only means one extra trade, but if they go the right way we can make extra.

The major move at the open on 24 June produced the best I've ever had, as I made £27k after the Brexit vote and my account handler actually rang to thank me. It seems he gets commission on the performance of his clients.

There's very little movement on the IG Sunday trading so far today, but that dioesn't mean there won't be tomorrow morning.

i watch with interest and intrigue
i can understand why you made a bundle at the open on 24/6, but assume you were already short .... in which case very well done indeed

if i have read your table correctly, you usually take quite modest positions at ~£2.50 a point .... is that correct?

Cynic - You should really read all the notes, although some of them are not completely up to date. My settings table in the header shows my initial trade size as being 0.005% of the current bank and my T/P as 40, which currently gives a target of £100 per trade.

Good morning guys - We still need a drop of 70 points to close the short.

We've just produced a valid long signal, so while we wait it seems likely the we'll open another long and that will reduce the space between our T/P's.

A very good start to the week as the DAX spiked down and gave us an extra 50% on the short. Now we're just waiting to add a 2nd trade to the long that's already open.

I don't think the intraday charts I've put in the header are going to work with 15 minute candles so I'm going back to the previous versions.

Edit: I'm not sure it's what I've set up, so the problem could be the lack of data. I'll leave it for the time being and see what happens later.

It was a lack of data so all the early movement this morning's been put into the first candle.

The 2nd long opened at 09:45 and I've now found a difference between v5.4 and 5.6. Obviously I can't be sure, but it looks as if Ivan's been messing with the rounding as when trade 2 opens with 5.4 it normally calculates the T/P to produce a fraction short of my target. This morning it's set to 1 extra point and that can be the difference between closing and leaving a trade open.

Now I don't know what to do.

After closing the short this morning, I've been able to take my first £1,000 divi since restarting on 4 July.

It seems that the problem I had with the T/P after the level 2 long opened this morning may have been caused by me changing from v5.4 to 5.6 over the weekend, as it's now corrected itself.

It now looks as if it won't be too long before we see a new short opening.

you may disagree, but it looks to me that we are now only 40/50 points on both Dow and Dax where a long entry may be a decent bet
of course, if those supposed supports fail, then it's a different story

Hi Cynic - Sorry if we've been messing your thread up.

As you will see we're already long here as the level 2 long trade opened at 09:45 this morning. I know we just leave it to Somnus, but she doesn't disagree with you.

We could be opening another in about 15 minutes if the DAX is between 10,401 and 10,411.9 at that point.

of course you haven't messed up anything ..... i'm not that precious and sensitive as others will tell you :-)

DAX is currently moving a little the other way (10,435)

Dunno cynic, calling yourself 'goldilocks' over the road. Just saying! :0)

it's a long story chris, but i also use it in business :-)

Sounds like Tooooo much information cynic :0) At least you have a sense of humour, thanks for your input on this thread.

so ken, you had your wish as to the level on the DAX, or was the timing relevant too?