Hi all,
After a year and a half of learning and demo’ing, I’ve finally started trading spreads live (on NADEX). Because of my work schedule, I can only trade from 9:15-10am ET in the mornings, so basically market open. I am a one and done trader who uses a hedging strategy that Darrell often promotes. I want to trade NQ using short term contracts as hedge against my primary position which is a daily contract. However NQ’s shortest spread expiry’s are still generally higher $$ (30-40 range) to get into pre-market than say ES’s and even when the market opens and goes in my direction the hedge ends up eating a lot of my profit. I have to exit the trade by 10am so I can’t normally wait to see if the hedge comes back the other direction. Is there a better way to hedge NQ?
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Maybe using ES contracts as a hedge against my primary NQ position since they are cheaper and both Indices are highly correlated?
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Maybe doing a 2/1 ratio between my primary and hedge positions? I know it means risking more than putting on a full hedge. I also thought about hedging with Binaries but have since read than its not a good idea.
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Put on the primary position first pre-market (9:15-25am ET) and wait as long as possible to put on the hedge if needed?
Anybody like me who trades market open and hedges NQ please advise! Thanks!