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Forum: Trading Journals October 14th, 2014, 12:35 AM
Replies: 14
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Posted By Diamond5
10/13/2014 - Real Money trade #1

Actually started trading real money today, pretty much for the first time in the Futures world. Good to see that the system still held up, though I would have been surprised if it didn't. I did get...
Forum: Trading Journals October 9th, 2014, 08:54 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
Where oh where did my little stop go???

Checked all my bad trades from this week and last. Here are the results.

At a -4 stop:
9 bad trades for -36 ticks

At a -6 stop:
7 bad trades for -28 ticks - 2 winning trades at 8 ticks
...
Forum: Trading Journals October 9th, 2014, 07:51 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
10/9/2014 - Good day, mostly

Today I took 3 trades, one great, one bad, and the third was great. So I ended up with a total of 4 ticks. The second trade went past my stop by 1 tick, then reversed. I'm going to go back and...
Forum: Trading Journals October 9th, 2014, 12:25 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
10/8/2014 - Good, normal, the way it should be...

So - today was winner winner again. I'm hoping to end the week positive. I'm finding the groove and it seems to be working. My system.... +4/-4 I usually say I MUST stick to - and on losing days...
Forum: Trading Journals October 9th, 2014, 12:19 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
10/7/2014 - Bad never looked so good -

Ok - so Monday I had a good day and called it bad. Today I had a bad day but I'm calling it good. I could see just from looking at the price action that it would be difficult to get any decent...
Forum: Trading Journals October 6th, 2014, 08:54 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
Starting off right - 10/6/14

Ok - so off to a pretty good start for Monday. 4 trades - all "winners" to an extent.... I really should let my runners run because three of the 4 trades could have been done with the first trend. ...
Forum: Trading Journals October 5th, 2014, 11:49 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
The truth of it....

So I loaded replay data for my bad week and re-traded it. Got at least $100 winners for each day. I believe that my largest stumbling block is simply the hours that the market is active and the...
Forum: Trading Journals October 3rd, 2014, 11:44 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
10/3/2014 - Chucking mud

I'm still at it even though I ended up with $0 before commission. Bad week. I'm keeping at it.

Here is today's entry

Date Symbol # Cont. Commission Per Tick Value Total Contracts Total...
Forum: Trading Journals October 2nd, 2014, 06:44 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
10/02/2014 - boo! 1 n 4 days can't help you retire

So - Another losing day today, but two of the 4 trades I took did go all the way up to my limit price, they just didn't fill. The bid never made it up there. So here is the sad stats....
...
Forum: Trading Journals October 1st, 2014, 06:00 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
10/1/2014 - winner winner, chicken dinner

Stick to the rules and this works. Trade when you hear the bell! Just like Pavlov's dogs.... It's difficult for me since I am a manager and constantly have people coming in to my cube so I have to...
Forum: Feedback and Announcements October 1st, 2014, 05:51 PM
Replies: 125
Views: 43,522
Posted By Diamond5
First time live trader journal!

Here is the link to my journal.

https://nexusfi.com/trading-journals/33436-diamond5-tradinge-journal.html#post439263

I feel like my excel spreadsheet is very inclusive and that may be the...
Forum: Trading Journals September 30th, 2014, 05:53 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
9/30/14 - Down day

Here is today's trade. First trade set up ok, but pulled back on me and hit my stop +1 tick. I needed to wait for a better entry. Second trade went great, however I got greedy and moved my limit...
Forum: Trading Journals September 29th, 2014, 09:17 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
Better Trade Journal XLS Sheet

Sorry for the hasty post of Trade Journal.xls - There were some errors on the graphs and some of the columns didn't have the formulas copied correctly.

This one is better.
Forum: Trading Journals September 29th, 2014, 08:52 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,524
Posted By Diamond5
Diamond5 Tradinge journal

My system is pretty simple. I use some custom MA's, the CCI and Stochastics. I only look for 4 ticks per trade unless I am absolutely certain it will run. My strategy is +4/-4 so I'm hoping for a...
Forum: NinjaTrader September 29th, 2014, 08:04 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 18,745
Posted By Diamond5
Amazing. And he charges how much a month for...

Amazing. And he charges how much a month for that? I should pay you Trendwaves! Thank you so much.

I spent the weekend coding it (because it takes me 2 days just to get "Hello World" to display...
Forum: NinjaTrader September 22nd, 2014, 05:31 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 18,745
Posted By Diamond5
PPS Indicator for NinjaTrader

Thanks FT - I guess maybe I'm over thinking it. I'm not sure what formula is behind the arrows. Would that screenshot be enough for someone to work off of and reverse engineer the indicator? After...
Forum: NinjaTrader September 22nd, 2014, 01:28 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,195
Posted By Diamond5
Perfect - that was it! Thank you!

Perfect - that was it! Thank you!
Forum: NinjaTrader September 22nd, 2014, 01:26 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,452
Posted By Diamond5
It is for an overall strategy, and your response...

It is for an overall strategy, and your response was very helpful! It gives me enough to keep going. Thank you!
Forum: NinjaTrader September 22nd, 2014, 01:19 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 18,745
Posted By Diamond5
PPS Indicator for NinjaTrader

Anyone have (or know how I can get) the code for the Person's Pivot indicators (PPS) that are free with ThinkOrSwim so I can use them in Ninjatrader? This is the indicator that puts the buy/sell...
Forum: NinjaTrader September 6th, 2014, 03:10 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,452
Posted By Diamond5
Action based on the color of an indicator or candlestick

First I apologize for not having any code already for this. I've looked and all I can find are examples on how to change the color of a candle or indicator. I would like to create a strategy based...
Forum: NinjaTrader September 6th, 2014, 02:59 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,195
Posted By Diamond5
Variable from custom Indicator

I am trying to pull in a variable from a custom indicator in to a new strategy.

I get the error "the name "trend" does not exist in the current context.

My code is as such:
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