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Forum: Trading Journals May 19th, 2014, 10:36 AM
Replies: 113
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Posted By mrBean888
19 may 14 - wedge, sell, 3 pips

Was the setup familiar? Yes

Was the context supportive? Yes
Price was moving up but was in a wedge shape. It was also near a resistance level. In the zoomed out view, price was ranging and was...
Forum: Trading Journals May 15th, 2014, 10:43 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
15 may 14 - pullback, buy, 5 pips

Was the setup familiar? Yes. It was a new bull pullback after a double bottom

Was the context supportive? Yes
After price had a 2 legged sell spike, price formed a double bottom below the ema. ...
Forum: Trading Journals May 14th, 2014, 08:12 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
14 may 14 - descending triangle, sell, -16 pips (2 trades)

This was a bad day. I was greedy, wanted an earlier entry with more potential profits and ended up with losses. If i had followed my entry rules or be conservative, my order would not be hit or i...
Forum: Trading Journals May 13th, 2014, 09:47 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
13 may 2014 - bull micro channel, buy, 3 pips

Was the setup familiar? Yes

Price had a 2 legged strong bear spike down. It formed a double bottom below the ema. A bull spike formed and went above the ema. A micro bull channel followed. As...
Forum: Trading Journals May 12th, 2014, 11:20 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
12 may 2014 - L2 bear setup, sell, 0 pips

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price was in an uptrend, formed a double top and had a bull trend line break. There was a test of the extreme high which resulted in a lower double top and price...
Forum: Trading Journals May 9th, 2014, 01:09 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
9 may 14 - bear channel

Was the setup familiar? Yes

Price was in a bear channel. There were 2 prior lows formed. Price had a 2 legged upmove to the channel top and broke a bit above it before starting to fall. A L2...
Forum: Trading Journals May 9th, 2014, 12:41 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
8 may 14 - bear micro channel

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price was in an uptrend and had a bull channel overshoot. A reversal followed which turned into a bear spike. The spike broke the bull trend line, ema and prior...
Forum: Trading Journals May 6th, 2014, 07:56 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
6 may 14 - descending triangle, sell, 2 pips

Thanks to Scalpingtrader's good advice, I decided to focus on just trading familiar setups. Once i am consistently disciplined enough to just focus on taking familiar setups, I will then move on to...
Forum: Trading Journals May 3rd, 2014, 04:02 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
monthly trade review - april 2014

number of trades: 9

trades which were familiar setups: 30%
The familiar setups I took were descending triangle, trend pullback and channel.

entries which had good signal bars: less than 50%
...
Forum: Trading Journals May 2nd, 2014, 12:44 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
30 apr 14 - ascending triangle

Was the setup familiar? Yes

Price was in an uptrend with higher highs and lows above the ema. A double top formed but there was no bear follow through. Instead price formed higher lows with...
Forum: Trading Journals April 29th, 2014, 12:10 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
29 apr 14 - bear channel

Was the setup familiar? somewhat

Price had a strong bear spike down from a descending triangle setup. There was then a pullback to the ema followed by a bear channel down. Price had a large bear...
Forum: Trading Journals April 24th, 2014, 11:43 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
23-24 apr 14 - trading slump

I am taking a break from trading for the rest of the week. These 2 days were terrible and I was undisciplined, broke my rules and acted according to emotion.

Number of trades: 5
Wins: 0
Loses:...
Forum: Trading Journals April 22nd, 2014, 12:15 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
22 apr 14 - bear spike

Was the setup familiar? No

Price was in a bull channel then had a pullback which broke the bull trend line and fell below the ema. While in a pullback, price started to cluster sideways forming...
Forum: Trading Journals April 21st, 2014, 07:30 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
21 apr 14 - descending triangle

Was the setup familiar? Yes

Price was in a bear channel with lower highs and lows. There was a failed bear breakout below a support line and price moved back up to the ema to form a lower high...
Forum: Trading Journals April 15th, 2014, 09:58 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
monthly trade review - march 2014

number of trades: 8

trades which are familiar setups: 88%
The setups I took are channel, wedge, pullback, buy climax

entries which have good signal bars: 88%

trades which are timely: 88%
...
Forum: Trading Journals March 30th, 2014, 12:09 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
28 mar 14 - wedge

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price was in an upmove and above the ema. The upmove looked bullish. However, it was approaching a major resistance line and price became a cluster of bars below...
Forum: Trading Journals March 26th, 2014, 11:45 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
25 mar 14 - bear channel

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price had 2 occurances of spike downs then a final flag before price started to correct upwards. A bear channel or wedge shape can be drawn. The correction was...
Forum: Trading Journals March 24th, 2014, 10:40 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
24 mar 14 - micro bull channel

Was the setup familiar? No

Although the setup was not familiar, this trade was not a gamble. I had read about micro channels in Brook's book and decided to trade this for the first time. The...
Forum: Trading Journals March 22nd, 2014, 01:30 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
21 mar 14 - bull channel

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price was in a bull channel with 2 sided trading. It reached the top of the bull channel, fell a bit and formed a TTR a little below the channel high. This could...
Forum: Trading Journals March 22nd, 2014, 12:52 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
21 mar 14 - bull channel

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price was in a large bull channel with 2 sided trading. From the zoomed out view, price had a large steep drop, a sideways move then this bull channel, which...
Forum: Trading Journals March 21st, 2014, 06:59 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
21 mar 14 - buy climax pullback

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price was moving up from a lower low and had a 3 legged upmove near to the major resistance level. Price fell off and had a TTR, including a failed bear breakout...
Forum: Trading Journals March 18th, 2014, 11:28 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
18 mar 2014 - bull channel and bear wedge

Was the setup familiar? Somewhat

Price had a big up and big down. A small bull channel cum wedge followed. Price reached the ema from below and there were 3 pushes up within the wedge. The big...
Forum: Trading Journals March 15th, 2014, 05:02 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
13 mar 2014 - pullback in a bear trend

Was the setup familiar? Yes

When i looked at the chart, price was having lower highs and lows and was below the ema. Earlier on, there was a break of a major bull trend line after a bull spike...
Forum: Trading Journals March 10th, 2014, 12:03 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
10 mar 2014 - bear channel top

On the zoomed out chart, price had a bear downswing, a long sideways move then a bear channel. Price was overall down.
Price was in a bear channel, had lower highs and lows and was mostly below...
Forum: Trading Journals March 8th, 2014, 11:45 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 22,836
Posted By mrBean888
3 - 7 mar 2014 - weekly review

Trades: 4
Wins: 1
BE: 1
Losses: 2
Net pips: -7

What i did not do well:
-> Cut short trades which turned out to be winners eventually
-> Did not pay enough attention to detail when analysing...
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