Trade #9: My reasons for taking this trade are that the stock has been in a downtrend on the weekly chart since the middle of 2014. On the daily...
Trade #8: My reasons for taking this trade are that the stock is in an uptrend on the monthly chart and on the daily chart it is forming a small...
Two new trades taken today. Found out today that I've got to go out of town on business for a week so I'm just going to have enough time to...
Interesting discussion on indicators. I'm always fascinated to see the variety of methods profitable traders use. For me, I spent years...
Trade #7: My reasons for taking this trade are because the stock appears to be trying to breakout of a large head and shoulders pattern that...
Trade #6: My reasons for taking this trade are because the stock has been in a sharp downtrend for over a year and is now pulling back weakly on...
I took two more trades today and in order to keep track of all my trades I created an Excel workbook trading log. Attached is a snippet from the...
Just an quick update on trade #3. I moved the trailing stop loss above yesterday's high to bring my initial risk exposure down to about 25% of...
Not a problem. One of the reasons I'm here is to to hear opinions other than my own. I see that this is a fairly high dividend stock. I didn't...
Thanks. Trying to stick with pullbacks in trends for now while I continue my studies and backtesting. These types of trades feel more intuitive....
Trade #5: My reasons for taking this trade are because the instrument has been in downtrend since July of last year and it appears that the...
Trade #4: This setup was similar to the heating oil trade although the stock does not appear to have anything to do with heating oil. My reasons...
Agreed. Those trades that I did well on over the past five year A lot of traders use Bollinger Bands. I studied them in the past – even read...
Makes sense. Thanks again.
Thanks for your advice Cswim. I'm sorry you weren't able to download the attachment; it's just a framework I laid out to help me better...
I have a lot of setups that I identified this weekend. Due to time constraints I will only post those that I actually enter.
Well, I initially set out this weekend to better define my setups. I ended up starting the first few pages of a trading manual for myself. I...
Nothing much real special about NXPI other what I wrote already. This is definitely an "anticipation" type trade without much "confirmation". So...
Here’s an update on the three active trades I have. Trade #1: MAR 2016 ES daily timeframe – Stop moved to breakeven ($1847.50). If price moves...
Thanks Handle! I rolled it over this morning to the April contract using a calendar spread that my broker provides. Here's the updated prices...
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