I reached the qualifying threshold in 2 Apex accounts. Also busted in one while figuring it out (platform, orders, sizing, etc). I need about 4 more trading days until I go live. Will be extra cautious.
I hope it will be a great additional arena for me, but anyway it has taught me some interesting things about my primary trading.
One major lesson is using stochastics on 5 and 1 (and sometimes 15) to help me wait for pullbacks to play out and inform profit taking.
Another lesson has been about the kind of "low tolerance" zigs-no-zags holds I want to be doing. I went smaller in my options account and got great results too. This is completely aligned with the stochastics factor.
A third lesson is about accepting my performance and walking away. Don't sit there and continue to hack at it. I know this lesson and that's why I have been trading in a cash account. I need to refocus on that as I add futures which is in a margin account and has 23 hour/day access.
