Trader P/L 2010

+91.82


ET Daily P/L so far (trying to post every day without exception)...

8-19-10...+$227.55
8-20-10.....+$46.60
8-23-10.....+$48.60
8-24-10...+$180.40
8-25-10.....+$78.10
8-26-10...+$108.85
8-27-10.....+$65.43
8-30-10.....+$32.85
8-31-10.....+$38.55
9-1-10.......+$38.21
9-2-10........-$99.39
9-3-10.........+$1.24
9-7-10.....+$113.39
9-8-10......-$233.69 (glitch)
9-9-10.......+$91.82

Position size is always between 4% and 6% of account equity.

 

+$211

Very limited trading today, sadly.

 

Today: over $6000.00 loss (yes, that's correct)

Sordid details here... Use IB and Stop-Loss? BEWARE!

 

Pretty good day considering it's fairly sedate.
$583 on 18k shares. Will try to post more P&Ls in the next few weeks as it seems the thread's interest has dwindled away.

Have a great weekend

 

I think the problem is that posting every day means often posting losses. I'm sure people hate that.

 

Note that I did say posting "more" in the next few weeks, which, of course, does leave the option open to just post those few winning days.

Actually, I had enough posting losing days back in Feb./March and that didn't bug me BUT the idea that I HAD TO post my P&L kinda got into my head and made the trading more difficult on one of the days. Frankly, as much as I want to be of service, this site is not worth even $10 if I take a position off early to preserve a soon to be posted ET P&L profit.
The ego works in curious(and subtle) ways, most of which are fiendishly self sabotaging in one way or another. That said, it's good to post the losses as much as the ego may hate it
Good luck bro.

 

+186.27


ET Daily P/L so far (trying to post every day without exception)...

8-19-10...+$227.55
8-20-10.....+$46.60
8-23-10.....+$48.60
8-24-10...+$180.40
8-25-10.....+$78.10
8-26-10...+$108.85
8-27-10.....+$65.43
8-30-10.....+$32.85
8-31-10.....+$38.55
9-1-10.......+$38.21
9-2-10........-$99.39
9-3-10.........+$1.24
9-7-10.....+$113.39
9-8-10......-$233.69 (glitch)
9-9-10.......+$91.82
9-10-10...+$186.27

Position size is always between 4% and 6% of account equity.

 

Today: +988.90

 

Slowest week since April, no trades on wednesday and thursday. Added another strategy to diversify even more, implemented today.

0910: -$235.
------------
Week: -$316.

 

+$436

I made $640 on a sim trade in pre-market, testing a 2-pronged profit target and had to bang my head against my desk as to why I did it in sim instead of live, because the setup was fine and the stop loss was small.

The "this thing has run too far overnight" opinion kept me out of the breakout long, normally a favorite of mine, but at least got me into a pure counter-trend short that worked out quite well.

Have a good weekend all!