12-30-2009 Total trades: 5 RT winner: 5 net P/L: 2 pts There was a big snow storm here last night. I got at office around 9am pacific time...
12-30-2009 I am done trading for the day. It is 3:26 pm. Today's price pattern looked like a symmetric triangle after yesterday's sell off....
12-29-2009 from now on, all trades would be live unless specified as paper trade in this journal. total trades: 6 RT winner:4 loser:2 net...
I just saw an email in my mailbox from trade2win. Someone is preaching not to use stops. Ok. Maybe he is trading only stocks or options so he...
On SPY Time of Sale table, there was a upthrust testing supply (selling pressure) at 3:00pm. Bulls wanted to go higher, but the supply was still...
12-28-2009 live trade today Total trades: 4 RT winner:3 loser: 1 net P/L: 0.75 pt SPX gap up (today's open is above previous close by more...
1. ~1/3 of gap open days, intraday low will not violate gap up open price or intrday high will not violate gapdown open price. This ratio stays...
Attached is a summary. The data in attached table is the gap open frequency wrt gap open range and calendar year (I used definition that open is...
To understand price characteristics of gap open day might provide some help to index day traders. I've decided to conduct a statistics study of...
12-24-2009 Total trades: 2 RT loser: 2 net P/L: -1.5 pt started around 11:30. market reached new high this morning and retraced to...
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attached a screenshot of today's trading summary. I use turbo trader web platform.
12-23-2009 total trades: 10 RT winner:5 loser:4 wash:1 net P/L: -0.75 pt ESH10 made new high early morning before open. It was sold down...
Of course new scalper can't win everyday. See, I lost today. Besides, I started this journal only two weeks ago. It is not long enough to conclude...
Hello bmwhendrix, I use 2 or 5 min chart most of time. I don't use any indicators except for the fib retracement tool. I am using Turbo Trader...
12-22-2009 Total trades: 8 winner: 5 loser: 3 net P/L: -0.75 pt. Started around 11:45 ET. Trading live again. My old demo account...
Another observation on order fill. I started paper trading first using ThinkorSwim paper trade platform. The limit order fill mechanism...
12-21-2009 Live trading today from 12 to 3:40PM. Total trades: 10 winner: 8 loser:2 net P/L: 2.5 pts Started at 12 PM ET time (9am...
Stock daytrading vs future/commodity daytrading There are daytraders who would trade future/commodity exclusively and some would trade stocks...
I went live trade today first time. My plan is to trade on paper a few day and then trade live a few days. The goal is to trade exactly the same...
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