Universal Market Trader Trading Blog

“Can I trade more than one market at a time?” – It’s a common question not only asked of our system but every methodology out there (for good reason!).

The answer to that is Yes.  Certainly people swing trading stocks (or forex, futures, etc…) typically look at a list of potential candidates each day.  Active traders (day trading) sometimes focus on one market but there’s no reason you cannot look at several.  Forex traders, for example, are typically recommended to look at 2-4 markets at a time since the trades set-up fairly orderly and it helps to be diversified day-to-day.

Today for example, I personally wanted to show you how I traded three markets at the same time — the Crude Oil Futures, Dow e-Mini Futures and the 10 Year Treasury Notes.  All of this was done within about an hour and we clearly had a good result overall (77% winning trades, $1,616.00 profit)

The key, of course, is mastering the strategy and ensuring you have the right account capitalization.  Not everyone is going to start with more than one market, and when you are first learning the strategy it’s best to be as conservative as possible.  However, as your account grows and your mastery of the UMT is finalized you’ll see you have the opportunity to both buy larger order size AND trade multiple markets.

Here are actual trades from today – performance summary:

Here are the details where you can see the three markets traded:

10/27/08 Trade Details (YM, CL, TY)

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We recorded our trading live from today, Wednesday October 22nd.  This was a good example of why we wait for the system to give us the “all clear” to enter the trade.  You’ll see how well it kept us out of choppy trdaing conditions at least until we got a set-up that triggered based upon our rules.  As we point out in the video, sometimes “winning” trading has to do with knowing when to be out of the market.  There’s plenty of times you are safest on the sidelines.  You can check it out here:

Live Trading Video for Wednesday 10/22/08

If you prefer, here’s our Dow e-Mini live trades we took on Thursday — 2 wins – 1 loss and a nice profitable end in just over 30 minutes:

Live Trading Video for Thursday 10/23/08

When we talk about the Univeral Market Trader we always point out one of the significant advantages.  Trading multiple markets in multiple timeframes.  Check out the charts below — you’ll forex, futures and stock.  Some day trading and some swing trading.  It is this versatility that enables you to master ONE strategy for a lifetime of trading.  Next, we always talk about the need to trade markets and timeframes where we win more than we lose on a percentage basis.  Nobody trades “loss free” — you will have losing trades.  The key for our success is to ensure we have a winning percentage that fits our mantra:  “Two thirds, one third” — which means we like to see 2 out of 3 trades trade profitably.  Finally, it’s important to us to ensure that our average winning profit is greater than our average loss.

This provides excellent protection should we not reach our “Two Thirds, One Third” goal – in fact, we know we can go 50% and still do quite well.  Even fall below that on a winning percentage and still stay positive.

The idea is you cannot expect to always catch the markets when they are hot – there will be times where we have excellent trading days but a few losses mixed in.  There will be days and trades where the market simply does not cooperate.

But, by sticking to our UMT Trading Plan, by knowing our exact stop and target on every trade, knowing we can have the confidence to take each new set-up with the odds in our favor we can keep our performance consistent and realistic.  This is about real trading with real results.  You’ll see in our charts below that not every trade wins – but it clearly fits our trading objectives outlined above.

S&P e-Mini Futures

GBPUSD Forex Trading

EURUSD Forex Trading

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The Dow e-Mini and the Crude Oil Futures are on display today.  Both markets did very well, as we have been seeing for weeks now.  The volatility on the index futures has been excellent, and today we picked up most of our profits “short” — as opposed to yesterday when it was all about the “buys” in the market.  Crude Oil had average volatility today but that didn’t stop it from being a very successful day (see 3 wins – 0 losses in the video this morning) while the Dow you’ll get to see 4 wins – 1 loss:

UMT Trading Tuesday October 14th, 2008 – Futures Video – Click Here

Here’s a screenshot of one of our Coach’s Trades today on the Dow:

Dow e-Mini Trades 10/14/08

Finally, lets take a look at the last 5 days on the Dow e-Mini – nearly 800 points of profit as you’ll see here.  We are experiencing excellent trading conditions now so there’s no doubt that the average targets are above average and the frequency of trades is higher.  But, we know that if we stick with the UMT method, the odds are in our favor in all market conditions.  This doesn’t mean we never lose — any realistic trading plan will lose — it’s how often you lose and if you can keep your average winners above your average losses.  Take a look at the sequence of trades below and see what we mean:

Dow e-Mini Trades

You probably witnessed some of it today — the markets continue to tank.  But, for those of you trading the Universal Market Trader strategies, and yes, that should be you, it’s business as usual for us.  Another day, and another round of success.  You already saw our live trades in a post just below – you watched us take actual trades everyday last week, and post profits each day.

The week before you saw us post our trade statements with results — again “REAL” trades – not theoretical.  Real trades, real money on the line, real profits.

Today we continue showing you how it’s done — here’s my personal Crude Oil Futures trades – and I intentionally did this with 1 contract per trade — $1,200 in profit (minus $5 per round turn commission):

Crude Oil Live Trades Monday October 6th

And, another of our staff, who actually calls the markets live for those learning the system did likewise – he traded just 1 contract of the Dow e-Mini and picked up over $800 in profits – just taking the trades – here’s a screenshot direct from the brokerage results page for today:

Dow e-Mini Live Trades Monday October 6th

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Here’s our trading Tuesday using the UMT:

October 7th Futures Trading

October 8th Trading Results

And, here’s our trading from the latest session – we couldn’t trade October 9th since we were doing the live webinar for all of you but were back at it on Friday October 10th with good results:

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