YES, on an island for many trading years, now I'm paddling towards it!
Sick of the times I have not been in control. Determined to succeed. Not looking back. Need a losing day + staying under control + following plan....
Wednesday 01/23/19 Followed Plan (5 days in a row) +$ Good patience, under control when unrealized p&l was red
Tuesday 01/22/19 Followed Plan (4 days in a row) + $
The want to be successful at the long term plan that I lose sight of the short term plan. I believe I am ready and looking forward to next week.
I do use a separate journal to make notes. I stopped posting daily updates on ET because I thought it might be feeding into my need to have a...
Haven't posted in 2+ months During that time I traded some and other times the account dipped below $25k and I had to go to the dryer and find...
OK today. I felt like I was under control at all times, (but a little unsure/skittish). I had one trade at 1,000 shares. 1,000 shares is 10x my...
Hopefully, I am crawling into the GREEN area now...
Let me preface my question with the following: I don't make my living by trading (yet). I get crushed by having too many shares in a trade every...
Good today. No Rules Broken. I order entry typo (extra 100 shares than I wanted) Closing losing trades a little-bit quicker than I was, with the...
Consider less shares per trade and a larger stop. You have too much on the line, you go into a coma and freeze. Then try to rationalize everything...
Much better today. I am trying to execute my trading plan in a way that it is scale-able. Right now 100 shares per trade. Long-term plan...
A TINY bit of improvement today...I think I only broke 4 out of my 6 rules. Good start to the day. Patient. I missed on Rule #3, locking in the...
To recap my "I suck" post from yesterday afternoon. Results below. At one point I was down about ($4,285). p/l finally turned green 10 minutes...
No cute post today. I traded 57,340 shares. It should have been about 200-600, maybe a little more. I suck.
Hmmm, where to begin... I don't think I could even convince myself that the day would start & progress the way it did and that I would get so far...
Investopedia Definition of Scalping below. Scalping is a trading style specializing in taking profits on small price changes, generally soon...
10/26/18 Net +/- Position = 1.34 Goal = .25 Average = (1.5430) Daily Avg needed to Maintain Year Avg Goal is .25 = .3400 Trade Size = 100 Shares...
10/25/18 +/- Position = .4259 (net) Goal = .25 Average = -1.7982 Daily Avg needed to Maintain Year Avg Goal is .25 = .3439 Trade Size = 100...
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