First, here is a post I made earlier to the stock & ETF section, which thus far has got no response from other stock traders:
I've been trading for a year and a half, and have been in a trading room for that entire time.
I spent another year and a half --mostly in that same room--about 5 years ago....and baled after losing quite a bit of time and money.
Now, I'm confident that I'm on the verge of profitability, and am wanting to leave the room I'm in...which is expensive. The main thing I get from it now is having a place to post my trades....which helps keep me honest, and gives me some positive feedback from others in the room.
I'm hoping to find a group of stock scalpers who'll be interested in forming a similar room.
I've thought about how I can post trades to a journal here, as others do, and am a bit stymied, as my trades are so dependent on what I would have called 'price action', except that term seems already to have been appropriated for something a bit different. What is commonly now called "Price Action", I would call something like 'bar configuration setups', but it's only terminology, so I'll just call what I do 'reading the tape.'
I don't enter trades based on individual bars. I don't use individual bars as triggers, or as setups. It's unimportant to me where in the formation of a particular bar I enter a trade. I can recognize certain patterns in bar shapes, and am working at becoming more familiar with those, in studying Al Brooks difficult 'stream-of-consciousness' book.
Rather, I find a setup based on a few indicators aligning (more or less) on 1 min and 3min charts, along with a larger chart pattern (pullback to support, channel, cup & handle, etc.)----and then enter based on the movement of the price at that point in time...reading it both from a 1 min. chart and from Level 2 bid/asks and T&S. I also use the futs (SPY) and correlated indicators as as further evidence of probable success of a trade.
So, just posting a static chart of a trade isn't going to show much of importance about the reasons for my actual entry. In fact, looking at trades at the end of the day, I can't justify why I entered exactly when I did, though the pattern and indicators show the general idea. But the actual entry info. was dynamic, and would only be available if I did a video of my screens at the time of the trade.
I have a copy of CamStudio, and have messed with it a bit, but it seems to restrict its use to my primary screen (I use a large laptop with some hardware that lets me stretch the video across 3 monitors), and unless I can show two adjacent screens, it still won't show everything about my entries.
So, I'm thinking how best to do something which will be useful to me and to others, and will be working on it next week.
If there are any stock intraday traders out there who would be interested in a live text-only chat room for posting trades and for other interaction during the trading day......please get in touch. There would be no obligation to participate past the level you wanted. I have found, however, that seeing others' trade setups and executions in real time can be of great help, so posting the stocks one is watching, and then the entries and exits (time permitting) is, in my opinion, well worth doing.
I trade the NY session....9:30-4:00, east coast US time. I have a live news feed, and can post news of interest to the room as is needed. I would be happy to share my own NT workspaces with anyone interested, though there is nothing especially unique about them.