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March 14th, 2017, 10:43 PM
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3/14/2017: Recovery day (4-0)
After tilting off 121 ticks yesterday, I seriously considered taking a day off, but thought it would be a good exercise to force myself to trade as I'm supposed to trade, but on a very short leash -...
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March 14th, 2017, 10:06 PM
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3/13/2017: Meltdown day (0-5)
Today was a bad day that started off with losing on a couple of reasonable trades that didn't work out and then continuing to place bad bets on breakouts on what turned out to be a narrow range bound...
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March 11th, 2017, 10:55 AM
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3/10/2017: Making money doing mostly nothing (2-0)
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Trade 1: Short CL on bar 7 (BOPB) (+20 ticks)
The entry was not great - should've shorted below bar 6 rather than waiting until it fell...
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March 11th, 2017, 10:33 AM
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3/9/2017: Another day of being right and losing money (-14 ticks)
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Trade 1: Short CL on bar 5 (opening reversal) (+2 ticks)
Nice reversal bar at resistance (yesterday's LOD). Went quickly to scalp profit...
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March 9th, 2017, 09:18 AM
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3/8/2017: How to be right and lose money (1-3)
Another day of being right on the direction (and how) and still losing money because of bad entries and bad stop management.
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March 8th, 2017, 08:44 AM
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3/7/2017: Difficult day (+1 tick)
I didn't trade that well today (though not very poorly either). I was right on the direction for the day (shorting all day long), but all I have to show for it is a +1 tick gross profit and a net...
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March 6th, 2017, 09:41 PM
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3/6/2017: Death by small cuts (-17 ticks)
Today was not a super bad day of trading but I did enough things wrong that the accumulated small losses added up to a good chunk of change.
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March 5th, 2017, 04:10 PM
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3/3/2017: One bad entry but small profit for the day (1-2)
One bad entry (trade #2) cost me some unnecessary ticks but eked out a profit for the day later in the morning.
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March 2nd, 2017, 04:53 PM
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3/2/2017: Trading the plan, good results (2-0)
Today was a good day per "Less is More" philosophy - two good entries, well managed, both winners.
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Trade 1: Long CL on bar 3 (opening...
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March 1st, 2017, 11:12 PM
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3/1/2017: One good trade makes up for 3 bad ones (1-3)
Today was a mixed bag to launch the new month. Another couple of ok entries poorly managed, one bad entry and one good trade that made up for all of that.
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March 1st, 2017, 11:01 PM
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2/28/2017: Bad trading, small loss (1-1-2)
OK entries today (mostly) but not well managed.
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Trade 1: Long CL on bar 5 (opening reversal) (BE)
Good looking bottom near the LOD of...
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February 27th, 2017, 07:51 PM
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2/27/2017: Good discipline, small loss (0-2-1)
3 trades today, none of them on impulse, so I feel good about the discipline part of it.
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Trade 1: Long CL on bar 4 (OR) (-7 ticks)...
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February 26th, 2017, 04:54 PM
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2/24/2017: OK entries, bad mgmt (0-3)
Better discipline today sticking to planned entries, but not managed well, losing more money than I would've, had they been correctly managed.
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February 24th, 2017, 09:23 AM
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Thanks!
BoltTrader, I deeply appreciate you taking the time to write this up. What you say re: greed (and trades 3 and 6) is totally true.
I'll think about the ATM strategies you described and see if I...
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February 23rd, 2017, 11:18 PM
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2/23/2017: Another day of backsliding and bad trading (0-4-2)
Zero tolerance policy was not in effect today, it was more like infinite regression and very humbling. Six trades and no winners, with a loss for the day when sticking to my trading plan would have...
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February 22nd, 2017, 02:55 PM
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2/22/2017: Back on track (1-0-2)
3 trades today, 1 win and 2 BE.
After a week of journaling some inconsistent trading (in terms of staying with the plan), EOD yesterday I resolved to have zero tolerance from deviations from the...
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February 21st, 2017, 06:51 PM
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2/21/2017: The market is a harsh mistress (0-1-1)
It pains me to post to this journal today, but so I must since that is that point of this exercise. I hope this go some way towards curing me of bad habits and impulse trades.
Two bad trades...
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February 18th, 2017, 07:14 PM
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2/17/2017 Good trades, bad outcomes (0-3-1)
4 trades today, 3 losses and 1 BE.
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Trade 1: Short CL on A2 (second reversal attempt at the EMA) (-11 ticks)
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February 18th, 2017, 06:43 PM
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2/16/2017 Mixed bag (1-1-1)
3 trades today, one win, one loss, one BE.
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Trade 1: Short CL, Opening reversal delayed entry (-8 ticks)
This was a decent entry with...
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February 15th, 2017, 10:16 PM
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2/15/17 Not much to like (0/2)
2 trades today, both of them losers and good examples of the kind I'm trying to avoid having to include in this journal.
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Trade 1: Long CL after the 9:30 CT EIA...
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February 14th, 2017, 07:45 PM
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Thanks, Northernlimit. I do have an excel journal...
Thanks, Northernlimit. I do have an excel journal with a lot of stats like you mention here. I have only posted the relevant stuff for today's trades for simplicity, but will aim to share summary...
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February 14th, 2017, 07:04 PM
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permeant
2/14/2017 trading
One trade today: Opening reversal on CL. I was trading only one contract, so was forced to exit at +20 ticks per trading plan, but the swing went for 40 more ticks.
Rationale: Opening reversal at...
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February 14th, 2017, 06:44 PM
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"Less is More": Permeant's trading journal (CL & ES)
OK, the journal challenge has finally got me to bite the bullet and start a public journal on futures.io (thanks, Mike!). I'm doing this to hold myself accountable for following my trading plan. I...
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