ES Journal - 2014

Discussion in 'Journals' started by murica, Jan 1, 2014.

  1. Tempted to short here but the action just isn't clean enough. I'll wait to see if 68.50 can be resistance
     
    #981     Jan 31, 2014
  2. ammo

    ammo

    short the 80 area in spx (76) add 79 add 81
     
    #982     Jan 31, 2014
  3. volente_00

    volente_00

    not even thinking about shorting til gap fil
     
    #983     Jan 31, 2014
  4. Which gap? ES or SPY? ES pretty much filled already.
     
    #984     Jan 31, 2014
  5. volente_00

    volente_00

    spx gap from yesterday
     
    #985     Jan 31, 2014
  6. ammo

    ammo

    add 83 offer 84, didnt get the 84's avg 79.75
     
    #986     Jan 31, 2014
  7. Only area I considered was the 10:40am est 5 min bar. It looked like the supply from the 10:25 bar could overwhelm it. Since then it's just go long and close eyes :)

    Up 13.5 pts in 2 days. Gonna call it quits for the weekend. Been a while since I've had a small streak like this. Gonna savor it while I can.
     
    #987     Jan 31, 2014
  8. Wanted to win today more than wanted to make money. Market out of trade before it hit target, but only lost 1 tick of profit. However, I really need to leave stops and targets alone once in a trade especially if its going my way.

    Now just got to remember not to over trade if I have a day with a losing trade and I think I will do fine.
     
    #988     Jan 31, 2014
  9. ammo

    ammo

    short the 80 area in spx (76) add 79 add 81
    add 85.............avg 81.5..add 86
    92 cash res area http://i.imgur.com/aZasGl7.png
     
    #989     Jan 31, 2014
  10. The hardest thing to do is to leave a stop alone especially when u are up a couple points. Gotta give it wiggle room. I often find myself moving my stop at a 1pt loss when I'm up 2 pts. Really sucks but if u are trend trading, price doesn't always shoot cleanly up. Gotta set that stop at a point where, if price gets there, u know u are wrong about the trade rather than moving your stop to where u don't wanna lose money.

    I played the "move my stop to where I don't wanna lose money after I'm up" for a while and I was often stop ran.
     
    #990     Jan 31, 2014