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Game rules: I will try to follow the current Topstep Trader Trading Combine plan for 30k. That means:
Initial account balance: $30 000
Max size: 3 lots
Max daily loss: $500
Max …
Six month's into my day trading experience it's time for me to start a journal. I hope this journal will provide accountability and increase my ability to stick to my trading plan.
I'm a chemical engineer, nearing the end of my career …
It is mainly for tracking my SIM automated trading system... a way to keep notes on improvements. It is SIM trading currently and is 100% automated, no discretionary trades. I am planning on going live with it soon, but want to make sure it is successful in SIM mode and am still finding some bugs that need to be fixed. It uses a dozen indicators that I have developed, uses machine learning, mean reversion, trend following and pattern recognition to decide on trades.
This is my first trading journal ever. I haven't had any winning year for the last 2.5 years since I started trading. I kept jumping from one trading room to another and found out the hard truth that I can't mirror their trade and just following …
I want to be able to count the cost and finish well, but I've never really used screenshots as a way to record my trades. I've always just imported my trades automatically into Excel to analyze them. I calculate fees and taxes on the trades as a way to help gauge my real profitability. Hopefully taking these screenshots each day will help me improve.
I appreciate any input you all have and look forward to learning as much as we can together!
Done this a few times before, still struggling but always with new issues. One day they'll run out, but for the moment I'm trying to fix my anxious, early entries, and putting more attention to market conditions (how wide, strippy, consistent with standar PA it seems to be compared to previous days.)
My entries are scalps but I'll hold a runner to capture as much of a swing as possible. Entries are based on price action, order flow and I keep an eye on volume, cumulative delta momentum and a stochastics.
My efforts in journalling have not stopped, but rather moved onto physical paper. I've been tweaking the details of how I log my trades, in order to nudge me in the direction of being more consistent when looking for the right before entering a trade. …
I've always learned something from the most upvoted journals in these contests, which I would not have been able to find otherwise. I'm sure this will continue.
Every time I have gotten serious about journaling, I have made much better progress. So I'm entering here as well.
The accountability of being open to all really does make a difference.
I hope people will like and benefit from my journal, and I hope I will too. I also hope that everyone will read all the entrants' journals, and vote for any that have been beneficial. Journaling is the backbone of this forum.
I'm becoming semi-profitable in the Combine now, and I'll see if I can push through to passing it this month. It will have been a long haul when I do.
You may want to not start at the beginning. A good place would be here, the first post in September:
I've spent some time the last few days looking over my trading during this latest Combine attempt, and paying attention to the bigger picture as shown by overall statistics.
Trading: Oh what a tangled web I weave, When I want to take profits in trading
Frequency: Several times daily
Duration: Years
Posts: 1,732 since Nov 2014
Thanks Given: 3,405
Thanks Received: 2,988
After taking a couple of months break from trading, I am back!
Did anything change during that time?
I am definitely fitter, have been more active, increasingly social with friends and more focussed at work. Will it translate to better and calmer trading?
I also hope that everyone will read all the entrants' journals, and vote for any that have been beneficial. Journaling is the backbone of this forum.
