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Trade Plan - Based on Market Profile with Footprint set up.
Trading Hour - US Session
Trading Instrument - CL
Market - US Market(NYMEX CL), Indian Market (MCX CrudeOil)
Risk & Reward Ratio - 10+Ticks/Trade
So I've been on the fence about starting a journal on FIO for the last couple of months. Mainly due to the fact that I am not a disciplined trader yet, and some days my performance embarrasses me.
Honestly, the NinjaTrader contest was the push I …
I started journaling last August for the last contest and it was honestly the best decision I have made in my trading career. Since starting my journal, I have become more disciplined, focused, self-aware, and I have actually turned a profit!
Here’s a glimpse as to what you can expect from my journal
Pre-open
General thoughts and key events for the day
Scenarios
Setups I’ll take
Psychology goals for the day
Post-close
Summary of trades taken and avoided
Grading trades on trades taken
Market sentiment thoughts on charts
Psychology goals for the day report card
End of week
Statistics
Goals for the week
Prep for next week
End of month
Monthly analytics
Things to improve on for next month
More and more statistics
I post screenshots every day with my thoughts in them and I welcome any and all feedback!
Hello my fellow traders and those who, like me, want to become such.
I will start a fresh TST 30k combine today.
Instrument: Crude Oil
Contracts: 1
Chart: 500 Tick ** edit day one: 10 range **
Indicators: Heikin Ashi, anaDailyVWAP
Method and chart …
Just today I started trading the "30.000$" live account with TopStepTrader.
Looking back at where I am coming from, it is my hope that maybe, just maybe someone can benefit from some little line of writing within my journaling. If I can shave one day of learning curve off of someones journey, I'd consider the journal a success.
Don't get me wrong though - I do the journaling mainly for the selfish reason of personal improvement (and showing off the odd winning trade )
Then again, as my selfishness knows limits, I will give the price of this contest in the unlikely event that I'll actually win.
Looking forward to everyone willing to contribute to my journey... ehm.. journal.
Cheers, ST.
@Big Mike
I believe this contest is located in the non-elite section of FIO, right? If so - would you be able to move my journal there as well?
The challenge is open to all members, but only a very small percentage of active members are non-Elite. I honestly wouldn't worry about it, plus having an Elite journal is a way to show your support for the community. But, if you want me to move it, I will, so long as there are no Elite attachments in the thread.
Hi fellow traders here i present my way of trading ,like i said i only trade NQ futures it moves quite well
and the risk to reward is great love the way this instrument trends ,before i was used to trade crude oil
but i dumped it and stuck to just …
*EDITED Nov 25th/2016* Took awhile off from the journal and have continued to spend ALOT of time watching and trying to understand the CL market even more, I think i hit a stepping stone and am starting to post again on page #10 im starting videos. Very …
In my journal i tried to document as much as possible me going from totally confused to a profitable trading plan.
The reason i wanted to present my journal like this, which i feel is a little different then most was to be able to have someone like me be able to witness and more importantly be able to believe anyone can do this. I try very hard to illustrate everything that goes through my head and try not to miss anything.
It's a little weird for the 1st 10 pages and after page ten i strike a moment, i don't realize or understand what it is but i know something has changed. I started trying to capture what ever it was by recording myself and soon enough i had a good idea what changed for the better and from page 10 to current i try to document as much as possible how and what my light bulb moment was.
Thanks for viewing and any votes
Also @Big Mike I currently have passed my combine and im doing ok in the FTP, If i pass the FTP and by chance happen to win one of the combines would i also be able to pick someone else if Im able to pass my ftp?
I am starting a journal here on FIO, to help in my trading and to be entered into Big Mikes' February Challenge.
I am only trading crude oil, hence the title.:)
This is a TST 50K combine, of which I have just completed the first …