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 Trade Ninja 
Tacoma, WA
 
Experience: Intermediate
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Overall goal is to pass the Top Step Trader combine.

Products to trade: Focus on one market only – E-mini S&P

Trade setups to take:
• Trade Trendline Breaks
• Piercing Points
• Independent R-zone
• The Ice Cream trade
• CTD Head and Shoulders
• CTD Double tops and bottoms

Position size will vary based on price action; Risk per trade will be based on % (.008) of account.

The Combine evaluation metrics and account characteristics:
Starting balance= $150,000
Max Position size= 15
Daily Loss limit= $3,000
Max Drawdown= $4,500
Overall winning day must be 55% or better
All positions must be closed each day by 2:10 Mountain

Personal goals / perspective
With this being the first attempt at the trading combine, I am looking to take setups correctly and focus on doing the correct steps for each trade. The P&L and metrics that will pass the combine will take a secondary position to fundamentally correct setups. It is my belief that by focusing on trading correctly the metrics will all fall into place.

I will make a daily post into this journal with results and thoughts on the trading day

The combine starts on Monday, Oct 21

John Kavanaugh
AKA "Trade Ninja" in the TST chatroom
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I completed the first day of my combine, I woke up early and was all set to go, but was a little over excited and got myself into a trade that was less then 1:1 reward to risk, it was only off by one tick and somehow I convinced myself that was OK, its not! The trade then went against me. I was too emotional today, I strayed from my plan. It's easy enough to correct, the "stress" of the combine is way more then I would have expected.


Looking forward, all I need to do is stay on my plan and all will be OK

John Kavanaugh
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Day two is in the books.

I did better today. I stayed on my trading plan. I didn't have as much nervous energy as yesterday, and stayed focused.

Some notes on today's trades, I took some aggressive entries. While those aggressive entries are in my plan, they were just not needed given the setups and resulted in worse entries then if I had entered more conservatively. I gotta relax a bit and get rid of my FOMO (fear of missing out).

I am copying the trade report each day for the combine, one small loss on the first day and a decent win today got me back into the positive. I still have every reason to believe that sticking to the plan will result in a passed combine.

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Wow, what a bad day.

The setups were correct but the results we very bad. The only thing I could have done differently is after the first trade went directly to stop out was to take a break(its not in the plan so maybe something to add for the next combine) I did follow the plan using the aggressive steps again and that could be a contributing factor however the market would have went against me either way. I took two trades that both went immediately to the stop out level. I was done trading for the day within two hours of the market open and frustrated. This is by far the biggest losing day I have had recently and came close to the daily loss limit for the account which would have ended the combine.

Going forward I will not trade any different. I still have faith in my plan and setups. Results do not indicate a bad plan or a good one. Processes attachment is good and I am attached. I started this combine with a plan, and I will stick to it until its over, there will be plenty of time to "figure it out" after the combine. The game is not over, I still have a lot of time and capital to work with.

The only thing that would prevent me from trading on Thursday will be if I am thinking about my P&L and the loss taken today. If my head is clear I will trade as any other day.

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Back on track (kinda)

Two trades today

Today I had one good trade early in the day, and it went directly to target. I do not need the trade to go directly to target but it sure is nice. The second trade was a bit of a comedy of errors, I entered the trade long, price went directly against me, I thought oh no, here we go again, but just short of my stop level it settled down. I had not put the limit order in for the target yet. When I went to add the target to the DOM I accidentally bought a additional 6 contracts and ended up loosing a few hundred dumping those ( I was trying to get cute and not loose money, instead I lost double what I should have). Price hovered around my stop level for about 2 hours, then went to target. Whew!

All in all, I am heading in the right direction again and even with some foolish errors I made a profit. I have 16 more trading days, plenty of time to trade my plan and achieve all the goals (self imposed and combine related)

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hey, we miss you in the CTD room. Stop by and we'll try to talk you out of bad entries. LOL

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A multi-day journal entry,

I spent Friday, Monday and Tuesday looking at the screen and not taking a trade. While it was very boring, it is important that I did not force a trade or see a setup that was not there.

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I found a nice setup today, a simple trade trend line break short.

I worked out the setup, found good Reward to Risk, and entered the trade.

I had been in the trade for about 2 hours, then realized the FOMC was releasing a statement today. I knew this would be a big market mover and while I usually do not pay any attention to news, this could not be ignored. I felt like it was a mistake to have not thought about a major planned news release. I will add a step into my trading plans to check for the major news items that could impact my trade.

It was about 20min before the news release, I decided to exit the trade before the craziness, I exited with a good profit and watched the mayhem.

Price began to flutter violently for the next hour or so and I was glad I got out. I honestly think that news of that magnitude turns a good setup into a coin flip, this is not what I am looking for.

Just for the record, Price moved back towards my stop and was within 2 ticks had I stayed in, then went to target! This all happened in one five minute bar! While technically that would have been a positive experience had I been away from my computer, I still think it was the correct idea to leave the market while major news is being digested.

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