Gonna start posting my PnL here. Early day for me. Drank at the bar last night, tired, and need to go to my real job after the market closes, so i need a nap. So i'm quitting early. **Note only trading 1 ES contract until I make $1,000 more as my account will then support it** 1st trade of the day cost me 1 ES point as there was a problem with my software. had to call and get it fixed. Ended up getting filled 3 ticks more than I wanted to. Shouldnt have taken the trade as I lost 1 point instead of 1 tick. All in all, fair day. +$60.90..... +1.5 ES points Gross
-$236 I smashed in the face by a broker upgrade. All the stocks that are near/around earnings are killing system performance, so I need to actively go out of my way to start filtering for earnings +/- 2 days and also avoid any day on which there is an upgrade.
+$128.10 +2.75 ES Points on 1 contract. Went long about 15 minutes ago at 1194, exited at 1196 even though the market was still going up. Exited b/c I couldnt focus, $ was affecting my emotions. Having trouble controlling my emotions today. So I'm calling it quits early. ES is up another 2 points in 5 mins, had I held. But some days markets affect you more, pyschologically than others. And you need to know when to quit.
Today, the luck factor definitely played into this noob's favor. I pretty much caught the entire overnight downdraft for both ES and CL. Good thing I went to bed early, otherwise my itchy finger would have prematurely pushed the exit trigger. The flip side is that I lost 50-ticks trading CL in the RTH session.