+66 730 shares bad entries and terrible exits. turned a nice day into a disappointed struggling day. Summary of the month Net P/L: +1272.24 Total number of small trades: 202 Short trades: 27 Long trades: 175 Winning rate: 69.81% Net P/L per trade: +6.30 Net P/L per short trade: +11.00 Net P/L per long trade: +5.57 Best trade: +99.91 Worst trade: -128.14 Problems: As usual, don't know how to maximize gain. My trading performance is far below the simulated system. Still can not make a living by day-trading. Struggling is expected in coming months. Plan for next month: Keep the current strategies and try to improve per trade average profits. Today's trade:
-1100 Traded strictly futures from home today. Very distracted, did not spend more than 2 hours in front of the screen. Gaps are rare for the ES and NQ so I went short after the indexes toped out looking for a reversal. Was up 400 but then ES/NQ made new highes and i got out -400. Some insane revenge trading and i'm down -1150. Turned computer off at 3:30 right before that sick down move. Whatever, I've never been so content with such a huge loss, deserved every penny of it. Kind of love futures though. They provide more leverage than most prop firms, lower commisions, better tax treatment, tons of liquidity and very little manipulation.
made a whopping 40$ 6700 total for the month should easily be the top graduate at swift trade this month
Its 1.00pm, Nice morning and good start to the trading month. Hopefully will build on the gains the rest of the week, will not trade through the fed number, too many errands to run today. Cheers to all - have a killer month.
System is being erratic so I'm done for the day. Good start to the month. Although not my best $ day I traded smarter today.
dt account: -100 stf account: +175 Wtf fomc day and we fail to take out yesterday's high or low. Diddled in the middle with size and and was down over 400 early in futures. Didn't daytrade much only 4k shares.