Cooltraderdude's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade report and journal)

Discussion in 'Prop Firms' started by TST_Hoag, Sep 17, 2012.

  1. I suppose I could have gone short with a really loose stop...

    Housing starts came out slightly better than expected but worse than the previous number... I was expecting a short.

    What if I went short... AND then the market rallied to a big stop loss...???

    With the long I did I should have done that with a tight stop as well... But that would have been another loss for sure... It should have been a smaller loss. That's about it...

    This is just the live crap you have to deal with on a daily basis. It's all about the decisions you make...

    Now let's see... Anyone claim that they can make the best decisions here...?

    If so... Let's see how you do...
     
    #121     Sep 19, 2012
  2. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    He's hitting 2 out of the 3 performance metrics! Good job CTD! Most the ET'ers thought it was impossible to hit them (rolls eyes).
     
    #122     Sep 19, 2012
  3. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    In my personal opinion, you shouldn't have anything on ahead of the 7:30 and 9:00 economic reports. Trade the reaction to them, not the number. Just trying to help.
     
    #123     Sep 19, 2012
  4. ammo

    ammo

    draw some lines sit on hands,trade at supp or res with a stop,you will know right away if your wrong,don't trade the middle
     
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    #124     Sep 19, 2012
  5. Hi... ammo thank you for that but seriously... trendlines are hindsight and hindsight is 20/20 as they say.
     
    #125     Sep 19, 2012
  6. ammo

    ammo

    they get revisited and respected due to the fact that it's the only thing we can see,we will never know what's going on behind closed doors edit , doesnt always work but often if you only have two touches,the third touch is a good bet
     
    #126     Sep 19, 2012
  7. No further trades to report as I'm not trading right now..

    Have a look at this chart... Can you say OBLITERATED...!!!???
     
    #127     Sep 19, 2012
  8. That's the exact reason why guys have been saying not to trade the ES. With the vix this low it's just not a good proposition. Go take a look at todays crude chart. There's almost a $3 range just since the pit open with a pretty obvious trend.
     
    #128     Sep 19, 2012
  9. The contract month on that is Oct. 12 right...? Just making sure...
     
    #129     Sep 19, 2012
  10. I started trading Nov today. To always be in the right month just look at the T4 DOM and trade whichever month has the most volume.
     
    #130     Sep 19, 2012