Hey mischief, sorry to hear about the loss... good to get reminded of the importance of checking for earnings reports, as it so easily can lead to painful consequences... thanks. Can i ask, how reliable have you found the IB controller software in placing your trades to IB TWS?
Hi Gpzany, IB Controller has been bullletproof. The only errors have been my own (either code related or not checking earning dates, etc....)
Sorry to hear you had to 'bite the bullet' on your trade. I have no doubt you'll make back that hit and then some. Good trading to you. - Spydertrader
damn haroki, you got into nvec real early. hehe i got it at 26.82... my market orders didn't work today for some reason... made me missed the price i wanted... i too wanted to get in a lot earlier than i did i'm currently long NVEC and ININ.... although inin is not looking too great right now.
This is my first post on this board. I must say that I have learned a lot reading the journals over the last six months. Bought NVEC at 26.80
Guys I don't want to poop on this party but the trade on NVEC was on 03 07 and you should be selling here imho
Also COGO, way late at 15.90. Wanted to get closer to the open but the first bar had NO volume, so my attention went elsewhere. Then I came back to it on the 2nd bar and !!!!! Missed the pop, held through the 3rd bar , and now is going up again. I have trouble with the volume gaussians on something like this, where it's all over the place , look at NVEC right now - several increasing volume and price bars, followed by 2 decreasing V and P bars. Near picture perfect action.
Is anyone good with Excel? Was wondering if anyone could help me make a good excel sheet for keeping track of my trade records. something similar to this one i have made here... i know how to do it so i get the Net% and Net, and Profits.. know all to do all the calculations, but how do i do it for the entire column so i dont have to copy individual cells and pasting it each time to transfer the formula? is there anyway to just set it by column so each time i type in a new trade it just calculates it by itself.... also, is there a way to do it so that if let's say my trade was profitable, it automatically makes the profit cell for that trade green? like the one in this picture? and maybe red for a negative trade? lastly, i was wondering if anyone have that excel sheet a gentlemen made a while back in journal2 i believe... where he calculates for unusual volume and even shows is in a graphical way like a meter and green bars representing the % level... if so could someone send that to me? Anyway, if anyone could help i would greatly appreciate it.