Apex Trader Funding Journal - 23May2024 - US Open - Rithmic Issues

Trade 1 is an exhaustion trade that fails.  Stop is executed at 20t.

Trade 2 and Trade 3 are Order Flow scalps with a tight stop below the previous low (horizontal orange line).

Trade 4 experienced Rithmic issues, and despite placing a 2-contract limit order, only 1 contract was filled by Rithmic on a number of my copy-trades.  My trading platform registered the correct fill on the lead account and incorrectly applied this to all copy accounts.  A 2-contract stop was applied to all copy accounts and this resulted in some accounts now being 1 contract short from 5338 instead of flat.  Apex sent the Rithmic logs for this event and I was able to identify the issue with the trade copier.  I have made adjustments to prevent this from happening in the future.

Trade 5 was an attempt to fix the issue above, as my system was showing I'm short when I thought I was flat.

Green lines indicate winning trades.  Red lines indicate losing trades.

Trade: The trade number on this day.

DCA: Dollar Cost Average - This increases each time a trade is added to a losing trade.  As per Apex rules, this should never be greater than 1.

AIP: Add In Profit - This increases each time a trade is added to a winning trade.  This can be unlimited.

Entry: Time in UTC.

Exit: Time in UTC.

Size: The number of ES contracts traded.

Direction: Long or Short.

MAE: Maximum Adverse Excursion.  This is the maximum number of ticks the trade moved against me during the duration of the trade.  As per Apex rules, this should average less than 4 (risk) to 1 (reward).  Apex have stated that this is not a hard rule providing risk is sensibly managed.

TC: Ticks Captured.  The number of ticks captured by the trade.  A negative number indicates a loss.  To calculate the profit, multiple TC by Size.