 What's going on everybody? This is Giovanni from the options trading channel. I have some awesome news Something to report to you. I placed my very first futures trade yesterday Actually, I placed two trades one winner one loser I was actually up for the entire day all together really exciting stuff for me I'll show you here in just a little bit why I place those trades But before I do I have to explain a couple things if you watch my last video You do know that I do have $5,000 in my trading account to trade futures I have a couple of issues that I do have to work out and That involves the PDT rule the pattern day trade rule where I can only trade three day trades in any five day period Basically, so I'm working on that I I'm not gonna spoil any details just yet But I will have to address this issue in the very near future The other thing that I discovered in paper trade. This is why I don't necessarily Advocate a whole lot of paper trading Sure, I you know, you should be testing at your strategy your trades and whatnot Pape by paper trading it, but don't count on it necessarily How the real world actually trades what I mean by that is basically I was accounting on my entries Whenever I place a market order my entries on the exact open of the following candle from which I actually get a signal and that's Obviously in real life, you don't actually get filled market order on the exact open of the following candle and It doesn't really change a whole lot Just my profits and losses aren't gonna be as what I think They're gonna be slightly different not a whole lot, but slightly different but my conditional orders are working flawlessly as As expected, I really am really happy about that stay tuned for that video where I am going to explain How to perform how to queue up and how to enter conditional trade? So let's get to the computer screen so I can show you those trades What you're looking at here is on the far right in the smaller chart You have the daily chart of the micros and on the far left the bigger chart This is the one hour chart of the micros and This right here was the first trade that I took and as you can see here This particular candlestick that I got the signal on Was at three o'clock in the morning. So we would have been getting in on the following candle at Four o'clock in the morning again. This is on the 29th. I'm actually recording this the day after and I will show you those Trades, but now because I was dead asleep I didn't get in on this trade and it was a bad trade, but I still wanted to place this trade I I got in I'll double check here and in just a little bit, but I did get in here on this candle where I got a basically an exit signal I got in somewhere around here the 30 27 range Again, the main reason why I wanted to get in on this trade even afterwards is that I wanted to test out my conditional orders See if they would execute as I expected or planned and they did they absolutely did My risk was very low at this point because it was already trading near this lower band And this was the other signal that I got that I actually Placed and I only traded one Contract the main reason why only traded one contract even though that I could have traded it with two or three on both of these trades Is that I only had cleared as you can see $1,800 at the time when I opened up the account. I had $5. I made two deposits One for $1,800 and the other one for $3,200 bringing my entire balance to before the two trades $5,005 even only $1,800 Was actually clear and able to trade with the other $3,200. I'm waiting for it to clear But so that's the main reason why I only traded two. Let me show you those two trades You can see here that at 754 my time. What is that? Just under what 24 minutes after the opening bell of the market? I placed an order at 30 25 75 For one contract sold the other one. I I put in my conditional order I didn't actually physically execute this trade actually enter it I just entered the conditional order and it and it executed flawlessly at 30 18 50 I was down 30, you know close to 40 bucks Before commissions after commissions closer to 45 something like that and then that second trade at An hour before the market actually closed again one trade or excuse me one contract at 30 34 Made 15 points Exited at 30 49 right at the end there one minutes Almost two minutes after the close there So I actually ended up being up for the day 33 dollars and 88 cents trading one contract So pretty excited about that guys. Thank you so much for watching today's video I will be making a video on how to answer conditional orders how to execute conditional orders I believe hopefully by tomorrow if not Monday guys, so thank you so much for watching today's video I greatly appreciate it. It was an exciting Day yesterday and I was just super busy. I was a busy dad So I'm sorry that I'm getting this video out today, which is a day after I actually placed these orders So thank you so much. See you guys here in the very next trading video hoping it's a green trade. See you guys later