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October 1st, 2014, 02:00 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
Contract : Russell
Entry signal: Reversal Bar Short
Entry price: 1088.7 (red)
Exit price: 1087.6 (green) Target
Entry time: 7:26 A.M. (Pacific Time)
Ticks: +11 (per 1 lot)
Trade Results: 59 Trades. 43 Wins / 16 Losses. Ratio: 72.88%. MTD: +11 ticks (per 1 lot) YTD: +455 ticks (since March)
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October 2nd, 2014, 01:04 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
No trades today. Waiting for unemployment report tomorrow.
Trade Results: 59 Trades. 43 Wins / 16 Losses. Ratio: 72.88%. MTD: +11 ticks (per 1 lot) YTD: +455 ticks (since March)
October 3rd, 2014, 12:00 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
No trades today.
Trade Results: 59 Trades. 43 Wins / 16 Losses. Ratio: 72.88%. MTD: +11 ticks (per 1 lot) YTD: +455 ticks (since March)
October 3rd, 2014, 04:47 PM
Phoenix + AZ/USA
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Trading: MES, MNQ, M2K, MYM and MGC
Posts: 532 since Jul 2014
Thanks Given: 2,481
Thanks Received: 831
Good discipline. Good trading. Good journal.
October 6th, 2014, 12:47 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
Contract : Gold
Entry signal: Reversal Bar Long
Entry price: 1196.5 (green)
Exit price: 1197.5 (red) Target
Entry time: 5:28 A.M. (Pacific Time)
Ticks: +10 (per 1 lot)
Contract: Russell
Entry signal: Reversal Bar Long
Entry price: 1099.9 (green)
Exit price: 1100.9 (red) Target
Entry time: 7:06 A.M. (Pacific Time)
Ticks: +10 (per 1 lot)
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Trade Results: 61 Trades. 45 Wins / 16 Losses. Ratio: 73.77%. MTD: +31 ticks (per 1 lot) YTD: +475 ticks (since March)
October 7th, 2014, 12:21 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
No trades today.
Trade Results: 61 Trades. 45 Wins / 16 Losses. Ratio: 73.77%. MTD: +31 ticks (per 1 lot) YTD: +475 ticks (since March)
October 7th, 2014, 02:14 PM
Canada
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: Metatrader, ToS
Trading: Forex, equities, ETFs
Posts: 16 since Oct 2014
Thanks Given: 0
Thanks Received: 4
Hey TradeTheTick,
Been reading and following your journal for a few days now and love it. Just wondering, how do you primarily base you profit targets? I would assume you look at a combination of the above resistance (for longs), volume, size of your reversal bar. It seems like you don't really look for runners .
Cheers and keep it up!
October 7th, 2014, 02:37 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
sterling729
Hey TradeTheTick,
Been reading and following your journal for a few days now and love it. Just wondering, how do you primarily base you profit targets? I would assume you look at a combination of the above
resistance (for longs), volume, size of your reversal bar. It seems like you don't really look for
runners .
Cheers and keep it up!
Thank you for your comments.
I primarily base my profit targets on price action . I am looking for the stops to be taken out on the bars prior. I usually look at 2 - 3 bars back but will adjust based on volatility and momentum after my entry. I haven't found runners to be as profitable as the market tends to turn back on itself most of the time.
October 8th, 2014, 01:11 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
No trades today. Rather choppy markets likely due to Fed minutes later.
Trade Results: 61 Trades. 45 Wins / 16 Losses. Ratio: 73.77%. MTD: +31 ticks (per 1 lot) YTD: +475 ticks (since March)
October 9th, 2014, 01:11 PM
Irvine, CA
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: NinjaTrader
Broker: Adv/TT
Trading: CL, GC, TF
Posts: 416 since Oct 2011
Thanks Given: 42
Thanks Received: 374
Contract : Russell
Entry signal: Reversal Bar Short
Entry price: 1080.0 (red)
Exit price: 1078.6 (green) Target
Entry time: 7:06 A.M. (Pacific Time)
Ticks: +14 (per 1 lot)
Trade Results: 62 Trades. 46 Wins / 16 Losses. Ratio: 74.19%. MTD: +45 ticks (per 1 lot) YTD: +489 ticks (since March)
Last Updated on February 2, 2015