Category: Office Memorandum

Premarket Notes, Trading Room Holiday Hours, Market Data Feed Updates, Reports

Curt MelonopolyLead Trader Blog Post, Office Memorandum

Good morning Traders,

Trading View Data Feeds

The market data feed issue encountered a few days ago has proven to be more complicated in resolution than first assumed. It seems the changes in data flow may be here to stay. This affects a number of charts. For example the 240 min EPIC chart noted in previous communication. This requires our staff to re chart and / or re-integrate to our reporting and software development on our end. In short, it has caused a considerable work load for our staff to adjust.

Report Distribution Timing

Due to the data feed challenge, all weekly reporting will now be distributed over the next 72 hours (we are in final “work-arounds” with data for the new charting to be distributed).

Premarket Report – Trading Room

This will serve as premarket report today and no formal report will be issued.

The trading room will be open today and tomorrow and will be closed for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Annual Staff WIP

Our communication in the live trading room will be limited to alerts only as we are focused toward getting the reports out and our annual work in progress list fully complete before Jan 1.

2019 Platform Normalization (post software development)

In year one our goal was to simply get lift to our basic trading service platform and that was accomplished.

In year two (2018) our goal was to develop the software for machine trading to the oil model and bring forward various other development and that has been accomplished (it has been much more work than we expected and we are just there).

In year three (2019) our focus will be to normalizing our trading services platform in the first 6 months. Our focus also will be toward trading for profit and building our learning centers for our trading community. In the latter 6 months we will turn our focus back to software development with coding BTC and SPY at minimum. The difference will be that we expect to have staff in each area of the platform so that areas of service are not interrupted (stretched) with a start up staff size.

In summary, this means that we are cleaning up our work in progress from 2018 and going in to 2019 our service will be hyper focused on trading, reporting, trade alerts and the development of learning systems for our membership base.

The time cycle starting in to the new year is significant in size in global markets and we intend to capitalize on the opportunity this brings.

Markets and Trading

Today is the peak of the broad global time cycle. The markets are reflecting such with most of the markets at major support tests.

As noted previous, considerable caution is warranted one week either side of the time cycle.

As we come out the other side of this time cycle our trading will become progressively more aggressive as the days and weeks continue in to next 6 months.

Any questions please reach out.

Curtis

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Premarket Notes, Current Trades, Schedule Near Term and in to 2019

Curt MelonopolyLead Trader Blog Post, Office Memorandum, Trading Plan, Uncategorized

Markets: 

Markets are mixed (not surprising considering time cycle completion on 20 th ish). Extreme caution between here and 20th ish.

Current Trades:

Looking for a pull back on DGAZ to size next leg above starter.

Holding VIX starter short in TVIX – HIGH RISK TRADE, extreme caution. Likely reverse bias after Dec 20 ish.

Holding SPY long starter. Likely reverse to short after Dec 20 ish.

Holding DWT short starter (however, it looks like oil may take another leg down here, it will either hold here or down another floor). Will size in next leg after a pull back in oil.

Holding ARWR swing starter long (missed my next leg size).

Looking for a possible BTC long swing other side of Dec 20 ish.

Looking for a possible Silver and Gold long other side of Dec 20 ish.

Looking for a possible DXY short other side of Dec 20 ish.

Expect next 6 months to be trading career huge. Massive range. Equity swings will increase as we come out of this time cycle peak – it will be a stock pickers year in 2019 with technical analysis rooting the trade action. My goal is to retire off front lines in 6 months (still here, but off the front lines), to do that my personal trading and machine trading has to be massive to win side.

Schedule:

At 2 PM today I am taking the team in to lock down with me until Sunday night futures. We have to finish the coding updates in oil we discovered necessary with things that happened in trade this week – I know, it takes time and we’re going to get this right. We also got behind due to WordPress updates that completely surprised us. We’ve resolved the issues but this has put our reporting behind. So this needs to also be caught up. And lastly, we have a 2018 work in progress list that has to be completed before Jan 1, 2019. So we’ll be in staff lock-down between 2 pm today and Sunday futures. Next week we will likely do the same around this time of the week to get everything caught up before the new year.

Trading Room Schedule:

I will be in trading room for open and most of the morning. Markets are in flux so I don’t expect much trading (YTBD) and encourage you to stay safe as possible until we’re on other side of Dec 20. Trading room will close near mid day. No mid day review. Trading room will not be open Friday and will re-open for Sunday night futures.

Premarket report may be processed – pending at this point.

Any questions send me a DM or email anytime.

Curt

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Important Updates: Premarket, Markets, Trades, Coding, XMAS Discounts and More.

Curt MelonopolyLead Trader Blog Post, Office Memorandum

A Quick Member Client Update:

Code: The testing for the EPIC algorithm machine trading has been going well this week. The trades triggered have been successful, a few missed opportunities (no trigger executed) because of “on the fly” updates but all in all we are very pleased with the results. Every trade has been profitable.

Last evening Katie updated our most recent “on the fly” updates to the code.

Post EIA (Thursday this week) we expect 90% + of opportunities on wide structure to trigger. A significant increase.

Markets: Markets are closed for a national day of mourning tomorrow. We see some continued structure building however the inversion is signalling a recession is possible. Yet to be seen.

Positioning Trades: Short term we are looking for long positions in to Christmas. There is (as noted previous) a time cycle completion we are concerned about on Dec 5. So in short we are waiting for that to pass and EIA to pass and then make decisions on sizing positions for a move in to Dec 20 th ish.

Next Level Charting: There is a new EPIC report in editing now that details our newest charting developed for our coding that our client members will be able to use. It is next level, really exciting developments on that end.

Soon we will start on coding SPY and BTC.

Trade Positions: We remain short DWT and are looking for sizing in to it further post EIA.

For other scheduling refer to below. In short, we are in coding intense this week, publishing trading alerts but no reporting or premarket reports etc until this round of coding done late this week. Also BTW update oil and BTC algorithm charting emailed last night to members.

Any questions shoot me an email anytime.

And do not miss that XMAS 40%, there’s only 10 discount codes for each and that won’t come around until next XMAS (if at all).

Thanks

Curt

40% Discounts here:

https://compoundtrading.com/exclusive-member-christmas-discounts-trade-alerts-swing-reports-algorithm-reporting-trade-coaching-live-trading/

Per Previous:

https://compoundtrading.com/service-schedule-week-of-december-2/

Member Client Modified Platform Schedule for Week of December 2, 2018:

As noted previous, we are done the bulk of the coding for EPIC’s machine trading Generation 1. Last week we tested it in live trades (not alerted for the most part) and found a number of rule-set details that required code modification (we expected to be alerting more trades to our members than took place, so this week we are pushing completion details). This is a process that has to executed live between traders and techs – there are many variables. To keep this explanation short, this week we expect to alert most of the trades the machine trading is executing. We see much less variable rule set code tweaking. To be sure we complete the bulk of the testing and tweaks needed we are going to limit some of our other platform services for the majority of the week below as we have limited staff. This process may continue for weeks (the further along the less service throttling will be required) – at regular intervals we will notify members of service schedules as with this update.

If you have any specific questions please send us a note.

Here’s the member client service schedule for the upcoming week:

Alert Feeds: Per normal, specifically we expect more machine trading alerts on EPIC’s Oil feed this week and likely more swing trading alerts (going in to completion of the next time cycle).

Discord Chat Rooms: We will rely more on the chat rooms (of course oil being the main focus currently) than we will the live trading room. We DO NOT EXPECT to be in the live trading room this week. If that changes we will let you know. It will be an intensive week to try and bring the bulk of the coding required to complete the lower time-frames for oil trade decisions to a close. So we expect to be very active on both the alert feeds and the Discord chat (with trades and trade explanations) but not the live trading room.

Live Trading Room: The live trading room will not be used this week unless really intensive trading positions are occurring with large size multi leg trades. Lead trader is not likely to be present in live trading room at market open and for mid day reviews this week Dec 3 – 8th.

Reporting:

Algorithm reporting – the regular algorithm reporting is likely to be near none during the period of Dec 3 – 8th and we will make up the lag time quickly thereafter (again, we are using our staff resource to complete the small time frame coding for the EPIC oil machine trading)

Premarket report – as with the regular weekly reporting above we do not expect to be publishing premarket reports Dec 3 – 8th.

Trade Coaching: Trade coaching already scheduled remains as scheduled.

To summarize, we are in a push to get the lower time frame decisions coded to the oil machine trading. After the oil software is complete we will start on SPY and Bitcoin machine trading. We expect alerts and discord chat (trade related) to increase this week and live trading room to be near zero. The regular weekly reporting for this week will be near zero and we will make up that lag in to the week after Dec 3 – 8th.

Lets have a great trading week!

Jen, Compound Trading Group

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Exclusive Member Christmas Discounts: Trade Alerts, Swing Reports, Algorithm Reporting, Trade Coaching, Live Trading.

Jen LExclusive Member Offers, General Complimentary Newsletters, Office Memorandum

December Special 40% Discounts. Member Only Offer:

It’s that time of year and we’re ringing in the new year with exclusive discounts for our members.

The 40% discount is available on any service listed on the shop page below, the coupon codes are limited to 10 per item only – when they are used up they become unavailable:

Use promo code: jen40

Pricing / Features / Promos – Pricing Tables (click).

This special Christmas discount is available for Trade Alerts, Algorithm and Swing Reporting, Trade Coaching, and Live Trading Room.

Some conditions apply;

  • The pricing code discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount offer code.
  • For existing members that have paid can use this offer to run after existing membership period completes.
  • The 40% off discount is applicable to published pricing per the pricing table link above, the discount does not apply to legacy members that may have special rates.
  • There are 10 coupon codes issued for each item on the pricing table per link above.
  • The sale ends Dec 31, 2018 whether all the coupon codes are used up or not.
  • The discount rate cannot be renewed, so if you want to take advantage of the discount for a longer duration then select a 3, 6 or 12 month option at check out vs one month.
  • Other terms and conditions may apply.

If you have any problems at check out with the coupon code or if you have any questions email Jean at compoundtradingofficial.com

Enjoy your Christmas and lets trade!

Jen, Compound Trading Group

 

 

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Service Schedule Week of December 2

Curt MelonopolyLead Trader Blog Post, Office Memorandum

Member Client Modified Platform Schedule for Week of December 2, 2018:

As noted previous, we are done the bulk of the coding for EPIC’s machine trading Generation 1. Last week we tested it in live trades (not alerted for the most part) and found a number of rule-set details that required code modification (we expected to be alerting more trades to our members than took place, so this week we are pushing completion details). This is a process that has to executed live between traders and techs – there are many variables. To keep this explanation short, this week we expect to alert most of the trades the machine trading is executing. We see much less variable rule set code tweaking. To be sure we complete the bulk of the testing and tweaks needed we are going to limit some of our other platform services for the majority of the week below as we have limited staff. This process may continue for weeks (the further along the less service throttling will be required) – at regular intervals we will notify members of service schedules as with this update.

If you have any specific questions please send us a note.

Here’s the member client service schedule for the upcoming week:

Alert Feeds: Per normal, specifically we expect more machine trading alerts on EPIC’s Oil feed this week and likely more swing trading alerts (going in to completion of the next time cycle).

Discord Chat Rooms: We will rely more on the chat rooms (of course oil being the main focus currently) than we will the live trading room. We DO NOT EXPECT to be in the live trading room this week. If that changes we will let you know. It will be an intensive week to try and bring the bulk of the coding required to complete the lower time-frames for oil trade decisions to a close. So we expect to be very active on both the alert feeds and the Discord chat (with trades and trade explanations) but not the live trading room.

Live Trading Room: The live trading room will not be used this week unless really intensive trading positions are occurring with large size multi leg trades. Lead trader is not likely to be present in live trading room at market open and for mid day reviews this week Dec 3 – 8th.

Reporting:

  • Algorithm reporting – the regular algorithm reporting is likely to be near none during the period of Dec 3 – 8th and we will make up the lag time quickly thereafter (again, we are using our staff resource to complete the small time frame coding for the EPIC oil machine trading)
  • Premarket report – as with the regular weekly reporting above we do not expect to be publishing premarket reports Dec 3 – 8th.

 Trade Coaching: Trade coaching already scheduled remains as scheduled.

To summarize, we are in a push to get the lower time frame decisions coded to the oil machine trading. After the oil software is complete we will start on SPY and Bitcoin machine trading. We expect alerts and discord chat (trade related) to increase this week and live trading room to be near zero. The regular weekly reporting for this week will be near zero and we will make up that lag in to the week after Dec 3 – 8th.

Lets have a great trading week!

Jen, Compound Trading Group

 

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Trade Service Updates: Machine Trade, Trade Alerts, Live Trading, Reporting, Coaching etc.

Curt MelonopolyOffice Memorandum

Monday Nov 12, 2018 Update:

A quick update below that will answer any DM’s or emails we received from member clients over the weekend.

After running tests on our machine trade for oil late last week and a small weekend celebration with coding team we’re ready to hit it. Big week on deck. Details below.

Regular Live Trading, Alert Service, Discord, Trade Coaching etc:

Live Trading Room, Discord Chat, Live Trade Alerts, Trade Coaching sessions etc will resume regular scheduling this week starting sometime during Monday regular session.

Oil Machine Trade (alerts etc):

Oil trade alerts will resume today, machine trades will be identified with an “M -” at start of each trade alert. The machine trades will first be to the time frame of the quadrant short swing trade time frames (a post outlining the various rule-sets is being prepared for this – for the current time-frame think in terms of most probable areas of trade on model – quad and channel support and resistance). As the days and weeks move along there will be other time-frames added to the rule-set. This has been a fluid discovery phase with many changes intra-day – hence the reason for delayed distribution of rule-set.

The API integration is in process, the machine trade is complete for the first time-frame (as described above), however, the automation between email, social accounts, trading room, market data, live charting etc is cumbersome and the team is continuing in that effort this week. For now, the machine alerts will be entered by the coding techs (or myself) manually and I will live mic call out the trades in the live trading room to keep it as actionable as possible in real-time for our traders.

For each trade expect a series of quick alert tweets that provide detail of the trade, entry point, price target, time-frame, stop etc.

Per previous;

“we activated the first machine algorithm this morning with success. It will run in test / private mode until Sunday night (estimate). The next step will be live alerting the trades etc. A follow-up notice specific to this (machine alerts) will be sent to member clients when it goes live.

Our first machine trade algorithm goes automated this week (Oil).

Our coding and management are in the final push (all hands on deck) for api code to trade accounts, alert feeds, live trading room, email alerts etc. The team worked all weekend and will continue in to this week, until we are complete (sometime between Tuesday evening – Friday) services will be limited per below.

When we are complete the machine trade on boarding to our various trading platform services (listed above) our regular rotational reporting, live trading and trade alerts will recommence.

Until then, all reporting, alerts, live trading, Discord server room alerts and the like will not occur (its all hands on deck for this final push).

Downtime will be credited as time forward to appropriate member client accounts”.

Algorithm and Swing Trade Reporting:

The next reports to go out are SPY, VIX, GOLD, SILVER, SWING and you can expect those prior to end of Wednesday.

Per previous;

“we are on schedule. Reports are starting to go out to member clients and we expect all to be complete at latest mid next week.

Also upon completion of the inter connect (mid week ish) we will update all algorithm models, swing trading reports (for all equities we cover) with next gen models. This process will occur between mid week this week and late next week.

In other words, we will bring all other reporting up next level in development”.

Next Algorithms to go to Code Phase:

Per previous;

“We likely won’t start the next one for a month or two (our team needs some chill time they’ve been pushing very hard the last few months). But per previous below this remains;

Next on the coding and automation project list (in order at this juncture) are Bitcoin, SPY and Gold. If we complete those by the end of 2019 we will be on pace”.

Email Web Servers:

Per previous;

“We are integrating web mail servers with machine trading api’s for our client members, this will cause intermittent downtime for email [email protected] – use [email protected] if you experience issues”.

Other:

Trade Coaching Boot Camp Cabarete Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2018 Winter Sessions Sell Out Fast (it is warm here after-all) so act fast if you plan to be here with us!  https://compoundtrading.com/trade-coaching-boot-camp-cabarete-nov-30-dec-2-2018/.

Miscellaneous Work in Progress List:

  • Machine trading signals to be fed in to main trading room.
  • New pricing to be published representing next generation algorithm models (existing members no change).
  • Next generation algorithm models roll out (machine trading Gen 1).
  • Trading Profit and Loss to be Published for Q1, Q2, Q3 2018 (a report detailing trading / alert performance of our team).
  • Trading Boot Camp Event videos to become available on Compound Trading website.
  • Previously recorded Master Class Videos will become available for download on website.
  • New Trading Boot Camp Events to be announced
    • 1 day Bootcamps before end of year for each of the seven trading models and swing and daytrading – 8 in total to be announced (online only).
  • Sept 18 – Raw Trading Boot Camp Videos were emailed to members.
  • Sept 18 – Previously recorded Master Class Series were emailed to members.
  • Sept 14-16 Cabarete Trade Coaching Boot Camp went well, there are a series of post links on this landing page that detail what our itinerary was each day etc.

If you have any questions be sure to send us a note [email protected]. Responding in premarket and during regular market hours is difficult and it may be that we do not respond until later in day.

Thanks

Curt

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Trader Services Updates: Machine trade goes online, trade alerts, live trading rooms, reporting, coaching etc.

Curt MelonopolyOffice Memorandum

Update:

It’s mid-week and I wanted to provide a quick update to our member clients. We’re on schedule with machine trade integration and it looks like we’re back to regular rotational scheduling Sunday evening. Details below.

Regular Live Trading, Alert Service, Discord, Trade Coaching etc:

Integration of machine trade is going well with the coding team (see points below). The Live Trading Room, Discord Chat, Live Trade Alerts, Trade Coaching sessions etc will resume regular scheduling early next week (Sunday night is the current estimate). As we get near I will let you know.

Oil Machine Trade (alerts etc):

Per previous below, we activated the first machine algorithm this morning with success. It will run in test / private mode until Sunday night (estimate). The next step will be live alerting the trades etc. A follow-up notice specific to this (machine alerts) will be sent to member clients when it goes live.

Our first machine trade algorithm goes automated this week (Oil).

Our coding and management are in the final push (all hands on deck) for api code to trade accounts, alert feeds, live trading room, email alerts etc. The team worked all weekend and will continue in to this week, until we are complete (sometime between Tuesday evening – Friday) services will be limited per below.

When we are complete the machine trade on boarding to our various trading platform services (listed above) our regular rotational reporting, live trading and trade alerts will recommence.

Until then, all reporting, alerts, live trading, Discord server room alerts and the like will not occur (its all hands on deck for this final push).

Downtime will be credited as time forward to appropriate member client accounts.

Algorithm and Swing Trade Reporting:

Per previous below, we are on schedule. Reports are starting to go out to member clients and we expect all to be complete at latest mid next week.

Also upon completion of the inter connect (mid week ish) we will update all algorithm models, swing trading reports (for all equities we cover) with next gen models. This process will occur between mid week this week and late next week.

In other words, we will bring all other reporting up next level in development.

Next Algorithms to go to Code Phase:

We likely won’t start the next one for a month or two (our team needs some chill time they’ve been pushing very hard the last few months). But per previous below this remains;

Next on the coding and automation project list (in order at this juncture) are Bitcoin, SPY and Gold. If we complete those by the end of 2019 we will be on pace.

Email Web Servers:

Per previous below;

We are integrating web mail servers with machine trading api’s for our client members, this will cause intermittent downtime for email [email protected] – use [email protected] if you experience issues.

If you have any questions be sure to send us a note [email protected].

Thanks

Curt

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Important Trader Services Schedule Notices for Week (Machine trade goes online)

Curt MelonopolyOffice Memorandum

Good day,

Our first machine trade algorithm goes automated this week (Oil).

Our coding and management are in the final push (all hands on deck) for api code to trade accounts, alert feeds, live trading room, email alerts etc. The team worked all weekend and will continue in to this week, until we are complete (sometime between Tuesday evening – Friday) services will be limited per below.

When we are complete the machine trade on boarding to our various trading platform services (listed above) our regular rotational reporting, live trading and trade alerts will recommence.

Until then, all reporting, alerts, live trading, Discord server room alerts and the like will not occur (its all hands on deck for this final push).

Downtime will be credited as time forward to appropriate member client accounts.

Also upon completion of the inter connect (mid week ish) we will update all algorithm models, swing trading reports (for all equities we cover) with next gen models. This process will occur between mid week this week and late next week.

In other words, we will bring all other reporting up next level in development.  Next on the coding and automation project list (in order at this juncture) are Bitcoin, SPY and Gold. If we complete those by the end of 2019 we will be on pace.

Email: We are integrating web mail servers with machine trading api’s for our client members, this will cause intermittent downtime for email [email protected] – use [email protected] if you experience issues.

If you have any questions be sure to send us a note [email protected].

Thanks

Curt

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Thursday / Friday Trading Schedule

Curt MelonopolyLead Trader Blog Post, Office Memorandum

Thursday / Friday Trading Schedule

 

Pushing all reporting out Thursday – Sunday as our focus (everything listed on our to-do list as listed on any premarket report).

 

Will be in live trading room for 11:00 EIA Petroleum report ONLY today (as it applies to live trading room). No premarket / market open or mid-day review.

 

No premarket report.

 

Trade alerts per usual.

 

Trade coaching appointments etc per usual.

 

Will advise prior to Friday premarket for Friday schedule.

 

Thanks

 

Curt

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