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My Trading Journal: just a few trades a day

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Argyle Texas
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
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Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
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+3 ticks per lot Profit! MAC's price action would have you short at the low of the hammer candle below resistance. I have found that 4 tick targets or larger often pull back. I thus use shorter profit targets.




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Argyle Texas
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
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Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
Posts: 170 since May 2011
Thanks Given: 5
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Trading back to the average of the range on DOM.




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Argyle Texas
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
Broker: NT/Dorman, Oanda, ThinkorSwim
Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
Posts: 170 since May 2011
Thanks Given: 5
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June profit: on Jigsaw Leaderboard. The numbers for this month are looking good so far. I try to make some profit each day.

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Argyle Texas
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
Broker: NT/Dorman, Oanda, ThinkorSwim
Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
Posts: 170 since May 2011
Thanks Given: 5
Thanks Received: 146

+$412.50




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Argyle Texas
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
Broker: NT/Dorman, Oanda, ThinkorSwim
Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
Posts: 170 since May 2011
Thanks Given: 5
Thanks Received: 146

+$825 for the morning. trade1: I saw that the market was below the daily open and trending lower with a down candle. trade2: On the next trade the market had the first small pullback seen in a few candles. I went short for a continuation trade for 3 ticks.




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Argyle Texas
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
Broker: NT/Dorman, Oanda, ThinkorSwim
Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
Posts: 170 since May 2011
Thanks Given: 5
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+$500 Trading fade of sup/res lines. My Jigsaw atm did not open a closing order, so I had to manually close.





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futurestradermark
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Brave of you to put your trades on display like this.

I think it was already mentioned, but your R:R is off. I would suggest looking for an edge with at least 1:1 ideally higher. I only look for trades with 2:1 R:R minimum. With this, even if my win rate was only %50 I still make money. This helps with the psychology side for me. Relieves the pressure to win.

Hope this helps,

Mark

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Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
Broker: NT/Dorman, Oanda, ThinkorSwim
Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
Posts: 170 since May 2011
Thanks Given: 5
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+$500 for this morning. I was trying to trade with the uptrend that had formed this morning over the past few hours. I could not get a good pullback at first but I found some support to get into a trade.

I am still working on a system to swing trade for the R:R. With methods like No-BS, PATS or Gary Norden, the trades might just be ticks from the random noise of price movement. If you look at this last trade in hindsight, you could say that the target could have been greater. However, when you are on the hard right edge of a trade, you have no idea if it will reverse or move higher.

Good Luck to everyone today.. Cheers



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Argyle Texas
 
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+$600 Trading the bounce from support.




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 jpygbp 
Argyle Texas
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: NinjaTrader, Jigsaw
Broker: NT/Dorman, Oanda, ThinkorSwim
Trading: ES CL 6E MES ZB
Posts: 170 since May 2011
Thanks Given: 5
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This year, I am taking profit one month and then growing the account the next month. I am trying to keep 50% profit in the account for taxes. We will see how accurate the amount is next April.


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