Welcome to my Howiestrading journal as part of Big Mikes journal challenge.
I am learning to trade the ES using price action trading techniques as taught by Mack and Al Brooks. There is no doubt that studying your trading is the best way to learn. I am a firm believer that just by trading alone, you will not become a better trader, but time spent studying your entries and creating a journal makes a significant difference to this hard journey that we have all undertaken.
Forced into early retirement due to medical issues, I spend most of my time either trading or studying trading and I enjoy it immensely. I only trade for 1 point scalps on the ES mainly with one or two contracts and find trading the perfect pastime to keep me mentally sharp, it is this that drives me rather than any unrealistic expectations about relying on any income from it.
I like to keep setting myself challenges and recently, I undertook to record all my live trading and upload it to a website to share with my son who works overseas. He also has an interest in trading and enjoys watching my videos which become a central focus and the topic of hot debate when I catch up with him on the telephone!
Although the website is private and is just purely set up for the purpose described above, I have opened it up to futures.io (formerly BMT) for one month only for this challenge!
Please note, I do not sell anything, I do not provide teaching or training or anything else related to trading. When I saw Big Mikes e.mail about the journal challenge, I thought it would be fun to open the site up and share it with you all.
Normally my website is hidden and wouldnt ever be found, I have actually moved it to a new web address for this project and it will disappear from view again at the end of July when the competition is over.
I will post a link to the live trade video for the day along with detailed summary information on my futures.io (formerly BMT) journal. Hopefully, this will be acceptable within the rules as my website will host the videos. Big Mike, please let me know if I should embed the videos into my journal if this violates the rules (videos are usually around 50mb and 10 mins max in length recorded at 1080P).
I have disabled comments on my website for the challenge as one of Big Mikes rules is that comments should be posted on the journal thread.
I hope that you will enjoy my journal and I am very much looking forward to getting started on it.
I have explained more about me, my setup and a bit more background for anyone that is interested on the website which can be found at howiestrading.com (