Crazy markets! This strategy showing good consistency, picking spots and trading light. +$2,408 net on (just) 20k shares
Hopefully this week finishes like last week for me, cause it sure is starting out lame. Up a little again.
trade testicle-free again last night/today; as i don't think i can handle another $30m+ drawdown. aside from that, i traded pretty well both sessions. stupid IB's P&L is screwed up every time i trade currencies, as it thinks i have unrealized gains/losses from previous conversions of foreign currencies into US$. bottom line- my blotter is more fucked up than peter o'toole on his birthday. made 2,900 last night 3,025 today iow, +5,925
no blotter... par finish before noon for today Holly & I have an open door policy for most of the kids in our town. If they have issues at home or need a refuge for any reason, can stop here day or night. We seldom have any takers, but at least they know in their minds there is a haven when needed. Two of our close friends are in the midst of a messy divorce. Their teens got caught up in that drama last night, and showed up on our doorstep here as instructed. I got too little sleep, and simply couldn't muster any focus today. If the tapes had been smooth & clean to trade, I would have made money. If I were rested and focused inside of today's very noisy tapes, I might have made money. But tired and unfocused coupled with tough tapes = no chance for success. My ES trades went 0pts, -2pts, -2pts, +4pts, 0pts as v-turn pullbacks kept whacking me out. I felt the frustration and anger building due to fatigue, so shut it down before something stupid happened. Sometimes it's the market, sometimes it is us. Today it was both for me. I'm sure tomorrow will see active tapes again, so we'll go from there.