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Forum: Trading Journals April 26th, 2011, 11:31 PM
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Posted By lipton80205
4-26-2011

I had some family in town for the holidays, so I took some time off from trading.
Today was a good day, followed my rules, did a couple silly things, but over all I am happy. Also, I got up early to...
Forum: Trading Journals April 21st, 2011, 12:52 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
4--20-2011

Very long day, so I am going to be short.
Trade 1
After figuring out that we were in a trading range. I took a short about half way down (what I thought) I made a quick couple of pips, moved my...
Forum: Trading Journals April 21st, 2011, 12:25 AM
Replies: 41
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Posted By lipton80205
04-19-2011

Not a good day. I had a relapse.
Trade 1
Nice triangle formed after a complex P/B and break of a channel. I took the a limit order after the break of the triangle. I had my first target right...
Forum: Trading Journals April 18th, 2011, 11:41 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
4-18-2011

No trading today. I had early meetings at the office. I am sad I missed today because there were some really good trades to be had. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.
Forum: Trading Journals April 18th, 2011, 11:40 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
Hi adamus, LT support, I should say higher...

Hi adamus,

LT support, I should say higher time frame. The red dashed lines are S/R from a 60 minute chart. Every morning I look at what I believe to be key areas of S/R and use that for my over...
Forum: Trading Journals April 17th, 2011, 11:01 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
4-15-2011

The EURUSD had been trending down for most of the morning. There was a bounce off of LT support at 7:00. Then at 7:30 a nice strong bear bar broke support. Then a medium bear bar, followed by a...
Forum: Trading Journals April 17th, 2011, 10:53 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
04-14-2011

I had some traveling to do this weekend, so I didn't have time to update my journal until now.

Trade 1
This was just a really bad trade. Here is what I was thinking. It was close enough to...
Forum: Trading Journals April 13th, 2011, 09:16 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
04-13-2011

I'm not sure what the hell happen today. Internet issues and mind farts.

Trade 1
I went short after a small PB and a DT. The trade went against me fast. I was watching the 3 minute chart and...
Forum: Trading Journals April 13th, 2011, 09:01 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
04-12-2011

I had a work function last night so I couldn't post, but I did trade.

Trade 1
GBPUSD had been trending up most of the morning. There was news at 6:30 so I stayed on the sidelines until after...
Forum: Trading Journals April 11th, 2011, 10:39 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
4/11/2011

I got my computer back up and running but couldn’t trade on Friday.

Trade 1
The GBPUSD had been in a DT most of the morning on the higher time frame. There was a DB at 1.6345, which was broke...
Forum: Trading Journals April 11th, 2011, 10:19 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
Thanks

Hey Adamus. Thank you.

I will echo everyone else who has read Brooks book, its a hard read. I am on my 3rd reading of it, but it has really helped me with my trading. I spent sometime a couple...
Forum: Trading Journals April 6th, 2011, 11:35 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
4/06/2011

I was all fired up to trade today. I spent a bit of time last night studying charts. PA is getting easier to see...not close to a master, but just seeing where trapped traders are and logical S/R is...
Forum: Trading Journals April 4th, 2011, 04:29 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
4/4/2011

I have some family visiting and did not trade today and most likely will not be trading until Wednesday of this week.

Cheers!
Forum: Trading Journals April 1st, 2011, 07:02 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
04/01/2011

Oh the start of a new month, so nice to get a fresh start. I had some computer issues and had to restart and this caused a minor glitch in the day, more about that in the trade review.

Trade 1...
Forum: Trading Journals March 31st, 2011, 08:37 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03/31/2011

With unemployment clains coming out at 6:30 MST, I slept in a little bit because I don’t trade around news.

Trade 1
The start of London open the GBPUSD had been trending down. I waited for...
Forum: Trading Journals March 30th, 2011, 07:52 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03/30/2011

Finally back in the saddle after some much need time off. I have to admit, I was excited and very nervous about trading. I know I shouldn’t have been nervous, but it had been 4 days since I looked...
Forum: Trading Journals March 29th, 2011, 06:23 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
3/29/2011

After a long weekend. I had to catch up on things for my day job, so I didn't have a chance to trade today or yesterday. I will be back at it tomorrow morning.
Forum: Trading Journals March 24th, 2011, 05:12 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03/24/2011

Good day and bad day.

I have been working stop placement and profit targets. Instead of having fixed targets and stops I am using P/A to tell me where to put them.

Trade 1
After a failure...
Forum: Trading Journals March 23rd, 2011, 07:31 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03/22/2011

Today I planned on working on my initial stop placement, trailing stop and profit targets.

Trade 1
The EURUSD had been sideways in the most of the night and then at 5:00 AM MST it dropped off a...
Forum: Trading Journals March 22nd, 2011, 08:09 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03/22/2011

I spent most of last night watching Mike’s recording of this past weekend. Wow, some great stuff. Thank you, Mike for doing that.
The video got me thinking about how I place my stops and profit...
Forum: Trading Journals March 21st, 2011, 08:45 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03/21/2011

After I spent a nice long weekend in the mountains, doing some snowboarding, I was fired up for Monday morning

Trade 1
After breaking support, there was no follow through from the bulls. I had a...
Forum: Trading Journals March 18th, 2011, 12:20 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
3/17/2011

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you. The luck of the Irish was not with me today.

Trade 1
After a strong move up, then P/B to support from the London session a rough D/B formed. I got in real late on...
Forum: Trading Journals March 16th, 2011, 11:25 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03/16/2011

After a late night from hockey, I got a late start and had an early meeting at the office. I did not trade today. I wish I had because it was a nice trend on the GBP/USD. Oh well. Thatis the great...
Forum: Trading Journals March 16th, 2011, 01:46 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
03-15-2011

I had some extra time this morning so I traded a little longer then normal. Also, I spent last night and marked up 10 charts, trying to do my homework. Tonight I had a hockey game so no homework.
...
Forum: Trading Journals March 14th, 2011, 08:42 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 7,875
Posted By lipton80205
Week review 3-11-2011

I know it’s a little late but the weekend was jammed packed with the “Honey Do List”.

What I am happy about:
I only took one stupid trade where I got into a trade because the market was moving...
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