Recent Content by krolyk55

  1. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    I stuck to my new rules today about not allowing more than a $300 loss per trade. My stop losses are like magnets for the market, every time I...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 25, 2008 in forum: Journals

  2. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    In a way these last two days have been good for me. Even though I wish I didn't lose as much, I believe it will ulitmately make me a better...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 25, 2008 in forum: Journals

  3. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Another really bad day for me. It started off decent and I should have stopped while I was ahead, but I wanted to recover more of yesterdays loss...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 24, 2008 in forum: Journals

  4. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Thanks all for your awesome posts. Reading through them has really, really helped me out today. I am starting to get past the denial phase now,...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 24, 2008 in forum: Journals

  5. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Everyone who has been standing by waiting for that “I told you so” moment, it has arrived. Blew all my gains over the last couple of weeks...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 23, 2008 in forum: Journals

  6. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Jorge, I see that my Average MAE is -0.03% and my average MFE is 0.05% for today. From 4/10/08, the day I started to present my average MAE...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 22, 2008 in forum: Journals

  7. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Thanks for the advice. Without going into specifics, I use stochasitcs, moving averages, resistance levels and general candlestick pattern...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 22, 2008 in forum: Journals

  8. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    It didn't take a whole lot of skill to make money today, with oil hitting a record high, I just kept going short when i saw the setups and kept...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 22, 2008 in forum: Journals

  9. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Thanks Jorge, IB charges me $4.70 per round turn and all my numbers are net numbers after subtracting commissions.
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 21, 2008 in forum: Journals

  10. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Well the weekend was good and trading went well today. I barely even saw any drawdown, which is rare for me. Part of it was luck I think, but...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 21, 2008 in forum: Journals

  11. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Thanks for the comment, I need to do some more post trade analysis to figure this out.
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 21, 2008 in forum: Journals

  12. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Thanks pointing that out Pivot, that's a good way of looking at it. I have been thinking about why I keep getting into these big holes and I...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 21, 2008 in forum: Journals

  13. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Today went much better, I learned from some of my mistakes this week took some smaller losses when the signals reversed on me. I took some bigger...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 18, 2008 in forum: Journals

  14. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Yes this is nothing to be proud of. I am realizing that I become much more risk tolerant when I am down $1000 or $2000 because I really want my...
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 18, 2008 in forum: Journals

  15. Rookie Trader Journal - Advice Welcome

    Thanks for the positve comment MandelbrotSet, it's always encouraging to get one of those from time to time.
    Post by: krolyk55, Apr 18, 2008 in forum: Journals