Recent Content by ziyan

  1. Trading Operations

    Still have not learned my lesson apparently. I went against my word and allowed X to chew against me for the morning up to the highs, costing me...
    Post by: ziyan, Apr 25, 2014 in forum: Journals

  2. Trading Operations

    Hey traders! I'm very disappointed in myself today. Got caught up in my analysis and forgot to firstly be a good trader. Trades: 09:50...
    Post by: ziyan, Apr 23, 2014 in forum: Journals

  3. Trading Operations

    Hey everyone! No trades today again, just regaining my stride and watching. My short bias is still in place on X. Today's trading range did...
    Post by: ziyan, Apr 22, 2014 in forum: Journals

  4. Trading Operations

    Back to work today, fellow traders! The line-up for this week includes CHK - Looking strong all week on the dailies, looking for a break of the...
    Post by: ziyan, Apr 21, 2014 in forum: Journals

  5. Trading Operations

    Okay, so I was wrong about the "market looking strong" yesterday. From the 1.5+% drop in the SPX, we see that there is clearly some weakness....
    Post by: ziyan, Apr 10, 2014 in forum: Journals

  6. Trading Operations

    Entered WU yesterday, 4/8/14 at 16.05. Market looked strong today on the close so I left it open today at 16.40. Made a stupid trade in CHK...
    Post by: ziyan, Apr 9, 2014 in forum: Journals

  7. Trading Operations

    Good day, fellow traders! For the next six months, I will utilize this blog as my public trading room and here I will document a small segment...
    Thread by: ziyan, Apr 9, 2014, 6 replies, in forum: Journals

  8. Backtesting

    Quantopian.com has a great online backtesting platform and provides you with plenty of stats. But you need to know how to code in Python & their...
    Post by: ziyan, Mar 22, 2014 in forum: Trading

  9. Constantly shaken out

    Thanks everyone for the amazingly informative pieces of guidance. I've since tried out many of the suggested techniques, including entering on a...
    Post by: ziyan, Apr 8, 2012 in forum: Risk Management

  10. Constantly shaken out

    I'm guessing that a gigantic weakness I have is that I try to squeeze every last penny out of a trade... and then balk to hit the sell when it...
    Post by: ziyan, Mar 19, 2012 in forum: Risk Management

  11. Constantly shaken out

    Thanks everybody for the insightful replies. I'm gonna look into the buy-stop orders, maximum adverse excursion, and for sure the trade...
    Post by: ziyan, Mar 15, 2012 in forum: Risk Management

  12. Constantly shaken out

    Hi all, I'm still a novice trader. The market has been very good to me for the most part, but I keep getting shaken out of highly profitable...
    Thread by: ziyan, Mar 13, 2012, 21 replies, in forum: Risk Management

  13. Questions a new trader should ask

    Thanks to everyone for the replies. The discussions on this thread has given me a lot to think about, especially the importance of being...
    Post by: ziyan, Jun 20, 2011 in forum: Trading