August 21st

CL -.08

Ugly day not trading but crash course in Ninjatrader. Ninjatrader does not execute orders offline, just ATMs. I learned that the hard way. I had two contracts running and had to leave the computer for an extended period of time. I removed the targets on the ATM and replaced them with standing orders with no ATM. Well those orders were never filled. I would have hit my orders and collected somewhere in the order of 60-70 ticks. Hard lesson learned. Trades with the ATMs grouped show a loss of 38 ticks. Trades without ATMs grouped show a loss of 8 ticks. Those numbers would have been way in the positive had I left the ATMs working and in place. Lessoned learned and thank god it was sim.