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Forum: Trading Journals January 27th, 2017, 08:41 PM
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Posted By KBal
January 27 Week 4 Update:

Well, there was lots of good point this week, but I managed to destroy my NG gains by developing bad trading habits pertaining to it.

First off, my Stock account had been up and down this year...
Forum: Trading Journals January 20th, 2017, 09:37 PM
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Posted By KBal
1-20-17 January Week 3 Update

Another positive week with NG SI ES CL with most of my success being again with NG. I have recovered entirely from my big loosing CL trade in week 2 and have progressed to a decent level of...
Forum: Trading Journals January 13th, 2017, 11:38 PM
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Posted By KBal
1-13-17 January Week 2 Update

My initial Idea on how to protect profits:

After such a successful week last week, I withdrew the proceeds $10K from my Futures account, thinking that would help me protect my profits., to trade...
Forum: Trading Journals January 7th, 2017, 12:27 AM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
01-06-17 Jan Week 1 Update

Just thought I would start the year off right with an update to my trading journal. Will try to do weekly updates possibly more as time permits.

After a good start to 2016 I ended up...
Forum: Trading Journals November 9th, 2016, 04:36 PM
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Posted By KBal
11/9/2016 Post Election Update

I feel like I should be banned from freaking trading after the past week.

After last week, 9 days down, I had exited all my long positions....so when the market did the gap up 26 points then 50...
Forum: Trading Journals November 5th, 2016, 12:31 AM
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Posted By KBal
11-4-2016 End Of Week Wrap Up

Terrible Week. Terrible Trades.

Facing the choices I made earlier last week, I closed out my loosing positions that were continuing to loose and drag down my stock and options account 1.5% or...
Forum: Trading Journals October 29th, 2016, 12:00 AM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
10/28/2016 Weekly Update: I've realized My Major Problems

By the end of this week, I have come to some blistering understanding of where my money is going, and what I can do to stop it.

This is my plan to turn my trading from painful to profits.
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Forum: Trading Journals October 27th, 2016, 10:38 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 5,117
Posted By KBal
10/27/2016 Extremely Bad Idea Day

Today was the day I decided to hold some ES 2150 calls that I was up on over $500 after leveraging down overnight. I didn't sell them, I bought more when it went down and now they are pretty much...
Forum: Trading Journals October 27th, 2016, 12:57 AM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
10/26/2016 NG Record Sell Off Capitulation?

What an overnight, and what a day of days trading.

1st ES Trade. Held Overnight/ Rule Break #1 Don't hold Futures you don't intend to hold overnight.

...
Forum: Trading Journals October 25th, 2016, 11:22 PM
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Posted By KBal
10/25/2016 Bad Day

Need to work on discipline, main problem that is causing big losses, Holding Stocks into Earnings, thinking they will beat.

It isn't worth the risk. Even if they beat, they are likely to sell...
Forum: Trading Journals October 23rd, 2016, 10:28 PM
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Posted By KBal
Thanks for the comment! Yes, I did, just take...

Thanks for the comment! Yes, I did, just take the trader test last night. I am a "Detailed Trader" according to it. Imagine that. Enjoying the book immensely, and getting into the work.

It...
Forum: Trading Journals October 21st, 2016, 11:41 PM
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Posted By KBal
10/21/2016 EOW Update

Overall Positive Week: First Positive Week in 4 Weeks!

With the advise of fellow traders on this forum I have started keeping a detailed spreadsheet logging every trade, win, loss or scratch and...
Forum: Trading Journals October 19th, 2016, 09:52 PM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
10/19/2016 Mid Week Update

Overall the Market traded as expected.

GS continued to trade up and I sold my 172.5 Call Option Position within the first 15 Mins of Open. I could have made more on it, if I had held on about...
Forum: Trading Journals October 18th, 2016, 11:00 PM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
10/18/2016 A New Perspective

Well, the market traded as I expected for once and GS beat on earnings as I expected, however...

The options didn't trade as I expected. I was expecting to much $ from the trade. After trading...
Forum: Trading Journals October 17th, 2016, 11:25 PM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
10-17-16 Some Improvement

1. I didn't trade anything last night. Didn't hold any futures or options on futures over weekend. I watched the open briefly before hosting a cookout with new friends. It was enjoyable and good...
Forum: Trading Journals October 15th, 2016, 03:23 PM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
Thanks For the Insight

SoftSoap, I appreciate you taking the time to review my journal and provide your thoughts on it.

At this time I am preferring to use my journal here as a stream of consciousness review of my...
Forum: Trading Journals October 14th, 2016, 09:17 PM
Replies: 27
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Posted By KBal
Update 2 10/14/16

Better overall day today, the market moved in a way that I anticipated yesterday. Some of my existing positions continued to move against me, however the winners outdid the loosers today in my...
Forum: Trading Journals October 13th, 2016, 10:31 PM
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Posted By KBal
Update 1 10/13/16

The struggle continues, to an extent. There are bright spots, but they are overshadowed by the losses.

It seems that I am just trading backwards. I buy when I should sell and sell when I should...
Forum: Trading Journals October 12th, 2016, 12:33 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 5,117
Posted By KBal
Vision For Trading - Work In Progress

This will be my first post in my online Journal.

This is basically a quick recap of my year, high spots and low spots.

I have been Trading profitably for the entire year, until last week,...
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