My Trade Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by QuantifiableEdg, Jan 7, 2010.

  1. Here I am capturing my trades for my own reference. Some of these trades are PAPER and some are real trades.

    - Most of the trades range from 2 days to 5 days.
    - majority of the trades are in STOCKS
    - trading is based on pure TECHNICALs
    - Sorry I can not share any technical details on entry/exists
     
  2. trade #: 1
    symbol: MOT ( Motorola)
    signal: BUY
    price: 7.80

    trade #: 2
    symbol: BBY ( Best Buy)
    signal: BUY
    price: 41.10

    trade #: 3
    symbol: AMZN ( Amazon)
    signal: Short SELL
    price: 130.00

    trade #: 4
    symbol: ORCL ( Oracle)
    signal: Short SELL
    price: 24.35
     
  3. Closing the earlier trades , As I found entries are not quite right with small loss and profit .

    trade #: 1 -close
    symbol: MOT ( Motorola)
    signal: close BUY
    price: 7.70 ( loss: 7.80 - 7.50 = 0.150 , 5 cents )

    trade #: 2 - close
    symbol: BBY ( Best Buy)
    signal: close BUY
    price: 39.50 ( loss : 39.50 - 41.10 = 1.60 )

    trade #: 3 - close
    symbol: AMZN ( Amazon)
    signal: cover SHOT
    price: 129.50 ( proift: 130 - 129.50 = 0.50 , 50 cents )

    trade #: 4 -close
    symbol: ORCL ( Oracle)
    signal: close Short
    price: 24.40 ( loss 24.40 - 24.35 = 0.05 , 5 cents )


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    trade #: 1
    symbol: MOT ( Motorola)
    signal: BUY
    price: 7.80

    trade #: 2
    symbol: BBY ( Best Buy)
    signal: BUY
    price: 41.10

    trade #: 3
    symbol: AMZN ( Amazon)
    signal: Short SELL
    price: 130.00

    trade #: 4
    symbol: ORCL ( Oracle)
    signal: Short SELL
    price: 24.35
     
  4. I have initiated short sale on crude OIL ,details as follows

    Trade#: 5
    symbol: Crude oil Fututre APRIL 2010 contract ( equivalent is USO )
    signal: Short sale
    date: 2/19/10
    price: March crude oil future at 79.80
    stop: 81.00
     
  5. How many shares are you trading? Are you a scalper?

    I'm a day trader myself, just wondering.

    Thanks