KLTF here short for keyleveltraderfutures (keyleveltrader is from my mentor in equities and futures is because im coming into futures :)!)
Background
Well as the title says this is my journey from equities into the futures market I've traded equities for 2-3 years and have found a system that works for me and have now automated it after almost a year of trial and error! So I've come to a conclusion that I'd like to move on from equities and take a look into the "future" (lame pun intended!). I see futures as the next step forward in my trading career so here I am!
Why make a journal?
Well seeing how with stocks I was lucky to meet a mentor who was able to guide me through those "learning" years and share his "edge" with me which I of course then added my own twist on it to fit my own risk tolerance etc... I had someone there to keep me on the road to consistency and this is something I will forever be thankful for!
Unfortunately for me I have not been so lucky with the futures market and am on my own for this journey within the financial markets :(. And this journal is here so I can keep myself inline...hopefully! And maybe meet some great people on futures.io (formerly BMT) who enjoy helping others :)!
P.S Was hoping to be able to work with sharky through his BOOTCAMP but it seems that thread has died :(
Trading plan?
Well to be honest none at the moment I am currently with Stage 5 trading led by FT71 and heard many great things about how traders have learned to be profitable under FT71 through the brokerage but seeing how I had to take a break from trading for a couple of months because of a family issue I just actually got back into futures TODAY (3/21/13). So I have learned 0,zilch,nothing being in FT71 client only chat was great to see all the active traders but was confusing with the terminology used. SO ATM not seeing how people learned to be consistent within months of joining the brokerage but maybe this is just me being confused by the chat? (getting off topic back onto topic!)
Basically what I'm planning to do is read Al Brooks 3 books and go from there, possibly thinking about purchasing the system(thoughts?)!
As for now thats it im completely new to futures and don't even know how to use my platform yet and can't seem to find to much information on the stage 5 platform atm maybe someone on here could help if you also trade with ST5 :)?
Besides that thanks for taking some time out of your day to stop by here!
PnL:
3/21/13
-100 (accident as I was messing around with the platform)