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May 4th, 2013, 03:58 PM

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Posted By Pedro40

If you found this thread from reading...

If you found this thread from reading Indextrader7's journal, this is not the one I was referring to. That is this one:
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Forum: Trading Journals

April 9th, 2013, 07:28 PM

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Pedro's TST Combine

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Posted By Pedro40

I am going to practice at least one, maybe 2...

I am going to practice at least one, maybe 2 weeks (hopefully not more needed), and I don't sign up for another combine unless I can make consistently $1000-1500 per week...After all, if I can't make...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 9th, 2013, 03:48 PM

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Posted By Pedro40

Thanks. Well, at least I got my money's worth! ...

Thanks. Well, at least I got my money's worth! :)

The strategies are OK, my problem is purely psychological. I am risk averse, impatient and contrarian in nature. That is not particularly good...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 9th, 2013, 12:24 PM

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Pedro's TST Combine

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Posted By Pedro40

Oh boy, what a fight we had! I am exhausted.... ...

Oh boy, what a fight we had! I am exhausted....

The bad news is that finally oil kicked me in the butt and on the 21st day (well, pretty much at the end) I am finally out of the race. The good...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 9th, 2013, 12:23 PM

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Pedro's TST Combine

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Posted By Pedro40

Oh boy, what a fight we had! I am exhausted.... ...

Oh boy, what a fight we had! I am exhausted....

The bad news is that finally I oil kicked me in the butt and on the 21st day (well, pretty much at the end) I am finally out of the race. The good...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 9th, 2013, 06:28 AM

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Pedro's TST Combine

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Posted By Pedro40

This is the best kind of trading, the overnight,...

This is the best kind of trading, the overnight, while you where sleeping trading. :)

During the night I pretty much made up the loss in the ES yesterday and made $300 with 2 trades. The rally...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 8th, 2013, 10:23 PM

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Pedro's TST Combine

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Posted By Pedro40

So this was day #1 of the finish. Overnight I...

So this was day #1 of the finish. Overnight I made $150 with the ES, so I was happy with that.(needed another 100 to reach redo level) Usually when before the open I am up around 200$ I end up...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 7th, 2013, 06:14 AM

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Pedro's TST Combine

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Posted By Pedro40

Apparently, I actually have 3 days. My Combine...

Apparently, I actually have 3 days. My Combine says "finish by Apr 10th". I wasn't sure if that allowed me to trade on the 10th, I assumed not, because I started on March 11th and the 30th calendar...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 6th, 2013, 07:10 AM

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Posted By Pedro40

OK, finally time to update this journal. The...

OK, finally time to update this journal. The reason I didn't do it earlier because I didn't like the added pressure of posting P/Ls and the performance was rather lucklaster.

The good news is...

Forum: Trading Journals

March 11th, 2013, 05:43 PM

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Posted By Pedro40

The maximum goal is to get funded. But only if I...

The maximum goal is to get funded. But only if I actually feel comfortable trading 5 contracts and I am staying long enough in the winning trades. So as the smaller goals:

-practicing patience,...

Forum: Trading Journals

March 10th, 2013, 03:38 PM

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Pedro's TST Combine

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Posted By Pedro40

Pedro's TST Combine

Finally I am ready for another one. This is going to be my 3rd. In the first one (30K/20days) I played it too safe, and used only 1 contract most of the time. I finished in the money with good stats...

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