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March 18th, 2011, 12:13 PM
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Not really a journal.
It's hard for me to do a journal because I stopped using NinjaTrader and DeskTop Pro doesn't have any way of notating trades like NT so it's harder. Hopefully they will add that soon. I would like...
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February 28th, 2011, 06:35 PM
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Not a bad month.
I did a couple very stupid things around the 10th. It was a lesson WELL learned. Will do my best to not repeat that mess. It cost me over 6%. It was not that I was wrong and a stop got hit. I...
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February 28th, 2011, 05:32 PM
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Almost worst case scenario(and how I handled it)
Ok, so this was a perfect example of my position building technique.
I don't know why, but I seem to always be partial to shorts. I guess because usually the downward moves have the most...
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February 28th, 2011, 03:29 AM
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Just two trades on a chilly Monday morning
I took two trades tonight. The first one, GY I just couldn't see any reason whatsoever to short, so took half a position to start and added after it went up. Didn't like the dip back down, but knew...
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February 28th, 2011, 03:15 AM
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Yeah, I trade short term (100t chart with 15, 60...
Yeah, I trade short term (100t chart with 15, 60 & 240m for trend analysis) and I don't use targets per se. I use low enough leverage to just get in and see what happens. I add to the position...
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February 23rd, 2011, 07:00 AM
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I appreciate your directness and your viewpoint...
I appreciate your directness and your viewpoint but I think you misunderstood. I wasn't saying that my win rate was better than 50%(actually it is around 75-85%) What I was saying was that taking...
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February 23rd, 2011, 06:12 AM
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One dance with the beast
Did this earlier in the evening. Decided to stay away from the beast and move to something a little more tame, E/U. I suppose I could have had a tight stop and reversed after the first position...
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February 23rd, 2011, 05:57 AM
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E/U Trades
More scaling into the trade. 1.05% profit with .06 max drawdown. Would have closed it if it got to .075 which would have been a close below 1.3694. Would have been looking for shorts if that had...
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February 23rd, 2011, 05:51 AM
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MAE
Thanks for the info Mike, I'll take a look at it. Although, I'm not real happy with NinjaTrader. It seems very buggy and glitchy for such an expensive app(yes I know that pricey≠good). I think I'm...
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February 22nd, 2011, 06:20 PM
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Risk
I don't know what those numbers are in my case. I do know that I have an average win rate of 80+% and I usually can manage to grow an account 1-3% per day with no more than .5% dd on most trades...
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February 22nd, 2011, 07:16 AM
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Well, maybe just one more trade.
This is what you call building a position. I really only do this on GY because it's zones are so wide(and choppy). I was very confident of another push down(before a possible retest of resistance),...
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February 22nd, 2011, 05:14 AM
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Tuesday GY trades
Well it wasn't my best night, but still managed to make 1.3% although with almost 3% drawdown. I let myself go to 5ish percent drawdown per trade on GY just because you need to give it more room and...
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February 21st, 2011, 07:10 AM
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Monday Night Fights
Here's the story of my scalps tonight. Was trading very low leverage, still managed to make 1.1% with probably less than .4% max drawdown. Wasn't going to take any chances on longs with the sharp...
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February 9th, 2011, 08:26 AM
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My very first online trading Journal. Yay!
It's late, I'm tired(and done trading), but I had a profitable day. Today was 57 trades, 50 pips profit for a 3% increase in equity with no more than .5% drawdown on any trade. Pretty much how I...
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