I've been trading futures for about 6 years now. During that time, I've blown up a couple of accounts. I've built automated trading programs, day traded, swing traded and let's not forget a lot of strangle future options. I'm successful trading most everything except day trading and want to improve, so I'm going to journal my trades so I can review my trades and learn from mistakes and reinforce my habits on good trades.
All of my charts will be captured from NinjaTrader, but I'm using proprietary charting indicators and bars. The bars are closely related the better renko bars. I will not discuss in this forum why I'm using what I do, other than to say, this is what I've gotten used to seeing when I trade. I will also have an eye on a ThinkOrSwim chart containing the market $TICK to see how buyers/sellers and swaying the market.
At the start of this thread, my trading plan is to keep the losses to $300 or less per day. My goal for my average wining day is also at $300. That will mean that I need to have more winning days than losing days. This also may change as I track how I'm doing. I will only be taking day trades since my balance is below the multi-day margin amount.
Starting data: 1/28/19
Account balance: 1804.50 (don't ask, it was much bigger at one time)
Primary market: /RTY
Optional alternatives: /YM, /CL, /NQ (today's order, may change later)