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When I was 10 I had a journal I kept hidden under my bed, which I used to plot against my enemies. My mom found my journal by "accident", which meant a sit down with my father, a stern serous man. He asked me why as a 10 year old did I keep an enemy list? I told him it was something I saw in a movie. This was not true. I as a 10 year old had enemies, lots of them. Over time my enemies have escaped my attention do to the fact I stopped writing in a journal then.
Now my primary enemy (when trading) now is myself. So I will keep this journal to be keep track of myself, and to plot and scheme when/if necessary.
I have been attempting to trade for about 2 years. I like most lack consistency. I follow the fad's. I often don't eat breakfast so I become hungry and grumpy while trading.
On the up side when I focus, I mean really focus, I can trade with something close to competency. I use price action to do my setups and watch the order book for confirmation. With this journal I will attempt to do a daily video of my live trades (sim trades). With an explanation of each trade. When I have achieved consistency (IF I DO), I will then try to do another combine. I will trade only the ES. I will use a CTS T4 demo to trade because I like the platform.
the meanest bean of all,
MeanBean
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
My rules
1. Don't trade news. Check 2013 Economic Calendar for news schedule, works great for me.
2. Max 3 trades per day.
3. Trade only with trend unless confirmation of direction change.
4. Don't trade first 30 minutes.
5. Trade only set ups.
6. Always use stops.
7. Eat breakfast.
reasons I took trade
1. Strong trend channel was broken and retested.
2. Good volume
3. higher highs/higher lows
Method
1. used stop order above previous high
2. trailed my stop manually after giving some "breathing room" I think it was about 6 or 7 ticks to start, then about 5 to 4 ticks.
3. closed order early because I was hungry
4. I prefer to scale out of trades but decided not to do with this one because I knew I would not hold long enough to develop fully.
Video notes
First video so I didn't edit or do audio. Will aim to edit later video's. feedback is welcome.
why I entered
1. trading range by low sell high
2. looking for pull back to ma
why I existed
1. entered trade then hated it soon as I was in, small range means waiting long time for small profit so took loss and moved on with my day
Computer restarted and lost my video. So going old school with screen shot.
trade 1
1. entered on limit order on up trend/with momentum.
2. simple scalp with 4 tick stop and 8 tick target
3. took 6 tick profit on signs of weakness from order book, which looked like probable rejection
Thoughts on trading.
When I started trading I would average around 20 trades a day. It was exciting and a rush to trade GC/CL. Now I see that this was gambling and not trading. Trading done right should be boring. By making so many trades each day I was exposing myself to risk an unnecessarily large amount.
Now I focus on just making 1 trade, or none at all. By making one trade I find I am able to do much better trade management. With one trade I am able to do a stop of around 4 ticks and an initial profit target of around 8 ticks with a runner.
My hold time also has changed from an average of about a minute for winners and 5 minutes for eventual losers to an average of 2 minutes for losers and 30 minutes for winners.
No trades today.
I have found that Mondays are not easy to trade for me. I think direction tends to not be found, if it is, until later in the day when volume starts to drop off.
My favorite trade is shown in this video. This is a great trade because it requires a very small stop (4 ticks) and will have a target of 6 ticks or greater.
Setup
1. Look for rejection in order book.
2. Look for trade that on chart looks like continuation
3. Most important is to see trap setup, which is ticks down 1 or 2 but meets rejection/resistance each time. But on chart still looks like good trade for late comers who don't want to miss on next leg down/up
4. Take the trade. Buy/sell off of support with tight stop. This is essentially a stop run so close trade once exhaustion is shown.
5. placed order with 4 tick stop and default 12 tick profit
Another stop run. Didn't make a video so posting screen shot.
Trade method.
1. Consolidation on downward pressure, looking for stops building up below.
2. Used my standard 4 tick stop with 12 tick target.
3. Entered trade on limit order
4. Existed trade with 7 ticks profit, assuming their might be pull back on such an aggressive move down.
5. Using T4 so no runners.
