FastTrader Futures-Trading Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by EMini-Player, Oct 10, 2003.

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  1. taodr

    taodr

    By the way I grew up in the tropics so this is fucken hell on earth for me !!:(
     
    #381     Jan 27, 2004
  2. Aaah, don't know about taking some off my pie man. I think you'll be biting granite there... :p

    Never mind though, today wasn't that fine at all. Actually, very un-fine. I'm a bit frustrated now. I just had a week's holiday last week, yet had two breakeven days in a row (yesterday & today). I'm a bit too stressed for everything in the moment it seems. I'm now seriously thinking about taking next week off as well and flying to Bali for a holiday. No laptop, either. No books, either. No cheating. Just sun, and peace... :cool:

    Right now, I'll still have to do the daily post-mortem chore though... Hours of wading through my exec logs, printing & marking charts etc... :(
     
    #382     Jan 27, 2004
  3. Whats there to investigate? You where trying to catch a bottom when there was none. You where trying to catch a falling knife - Spare your hands and don't do it again. :)

    TM Trader
     
    #383     Jan 27, 2004
  4. I guess Scientist is pretty bullish since he's trying to buy bottoms. I'm quite the opposite...I try to sell the Tops :D Regardless, he makes more in trading than I do so he must be doing something right :p

    -Fast
     
    #384     Jan 27, 2004
  5. I don't care about tops or bottoms, I only care about the direction an instrument is more likely to go next.

    TM Trader
     
    #385     Jan 27, 2004
  6. By "next", do you mean the immediate direction? Or do you focus on longer time frames like the 5-min chart?

    -Fast
     
    #386     Jan 27, 2004
  7. Most of my trades are scalps of the 1 minute. I will hold for a few seconds to a few minutes. Every now and then I will try to catch a trend reversal and ride it.

    TM Trader
     
    #387     Jan 27, 2004
  8. January 27th (Tuesday)

    Total trades: 2 (All Shorts) 2 Winners, 0 Losers

    8:32 AM - Short 1 ES 1152.75
    8:37 AM - Cover 1 ES 1152.25
    Result: +0.50

    8:47 AM - Short 1 ES 1153.50
    8:48 AM - Cover 1 ES 1153.00
    Result: +0.50
    Notes: Had to leave the PC.

    Overall:
    ES: +1.00

    Not much time to trade today thanks to the beautiful Chicago weather. Normally, the commute to my office takes maybe
     
    #388     Jan 27, 2004
  9. Any positive day is a good day! :)
     
    #389     Jan 27, 2004
  10. Morning was pretty shitty. Up maybe 0.5ES pt. I'll have some questions on my trades after I post them in the evening.

    -Fast
     
    #390     Jan 28, 2004
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