I'm currently 2 SHORT on Nasdaq -$810, 2 LONG on oil -$110, -$700 since beginning of journal. For oil 72.7 target.

jlabtrades 

Wow sorry to hear you've had such a troubled past, thats always difficult to hear. I hope you have success in the futures market going forward. When you say "Don't trade futures" but then also compare it to gambling, Im curious what your strategies and metrics looks like for you trades. There are certainly times when some trading may look like gambling, but the hope for all traders is that they find a strategy that when paired with proper risk management and sizing, its less gambling and more of a business. I've been trying to follow your journal the past day, and all of these entries are quite overwhelming, could you perhaps instead post 1 reply per day with your total transactions you want to share? Also showing a chart or some other visual aide to share what you are seeing / why you placed the trade would be great for other users to follow along

hi Jlab, thanks for the kind words. Depends if I'm scalping or swinging, for scalping I look at strong resistance support where trend might change and get in with a small stop loss. Which I did today for Nasdaq and got stopped 5 times in a row, losing -$1200 which was what I was earning today till then! Damn.

If you check the screenshots they have the timing and all. Maybe I should just make 1 post per day but then it wouldn't be real time! When they see my journal making $20,000+ a month people will call me a fake clown and I don't like that lol. About charts let me think about it, it would take me so much time to post chart every trade...

TopKoreanTrader 

hi Jlab, thanks for the kind words. Depends if I'm scalping or swinging, for scalping I look at strong resistance support where trend might change and get in with a small stop loss. Which I did today for Nasdaq and got stopped 5 times in a row, losing -$1200 which was what I was earning today till then! Damn. If you check the screenshots they have the timing and all. Maybe I should just make 1 post per day but then it wouldn't be real time! When they see my journal making $20,000+ a month people will call me a fake clown and I don't like that lol. About charts let me think about it, it would take me so much time to post chart every trade...

I see you joined recently, but if you check around the site its not really a real-time signals or entries and exits type of place. Sharing ideas is always welcome, but I'm not sure what the advantage is of having near real-time notifications.

I wouldn't worry about what people may think, and besides I haven't seen anyone call someone a clown around here or fake in their trade journals. Also regardless of that, it doesn't matter what others think, all that matters is if you make money and are profitable

A chart for every trade isn't mandatory, I was just sharing that it would be interesting and provide more insight into what you are seeing. I would think that one post per day would be sufficient to show your plays, having a play by play might work better on a different site or app, these journals seem to work better as notes and less as a live notification service

Adding 2 contracts to CLX24 71.50

Recap of the 3 days of trading:

Day 1: Max profit about $700 I think then last trade of Nasdaq blew $500 up and ended the day with a mere $200 profit.

Day 2: Up to US market open was all good, about +$1200 even after missing at least 3 good entries by few ticks. Then I decided to short Nasdaq with a small stop loss, looking at a big return of at least 70 points, I got stopped 5 times in a row blowing up the whole $1200 profit of the day. Ended with $5 profit...

Day 3: Overnight start with 2 Nasdaq contracts on short with stop at 20195, and 2 CLX contracts on long. Added 2 more CLX contracts in the morning. Average CLX24 being 71.548.

Ok exited the Nasdaq short trade with a profit of $1500

So far $1745 since start of journal

Ok currently I have 4 CLX24 contracts, target 72.7, but I'm setting up 2 contracts with stop loss at 71.30. Maybe re-add them later at a better price.

TopKoreanTrader 

Recap of the 3 days of trading: Day 1: Max profit about $700 I think then last trade of Nasdaq blew $500 up and ended the day with a mere $200 profit. Day 2: Up to US market open was all good, about +$1200 even after missing at least 3 good entries by few ticks. Then I decided to short Nasdaq with a small stop loss, looking at a big return of at least 70 points, I got stopped 5 times in a row blowing up the whole $1200 profit of the day. Ended with $5 profit... Day 3: Overnight start with 2 Nasdaq contracts on short with stop at 20195, and 2 CLX contracts on long. Added 2 more CLX contracts in the morning. Average CLX24 being 71.548.

When you say overnight, do you mean you're overnight, east coast time, or from future day change and through the overnight maintenance margin period?

TopKoreanTrader 

Ok currently I have 4 CLX24 contracts, target 72.7, but I'm setting up 2 contracts with stop loss at 71.30. Maybe re-add them later at a better price.

2 got stopped @ 71.30, re-added two contracts now at 71.09

jlabtrades 

When you say overnight, do you mean you're overnight, east coast time, or from future day change and through the overnight maintenance margin period?

I mean that I went through the maintenance 1 hour gap, which would be 6am to 7am Korea time.