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I don't agree with you guys , Aztrader has been experimenting lately and this is the way someone should find his style , I am underlining what he said about his multiple entries , and I don't see the harm in this .
Talking openly about entries and posting them takes a lot of courage and I really admire people who do that in the forum , keep going AZ , I am sure that 's the path to take to reach the zone
soumi
"Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical.
Expect more than others think possible.
Care more than others think wise"
Why yes, 42 trades really is too many....I did 5 today. Yesterday was about fine tuning and really finding which entry I like. Actually yesterday was NOT about the signals, it was about finding the little nuances in the signal.
I trade fibs, so the signal is the fib + price action. The best entry around the fib is what I am looking for. Thats why all the trades yesterday, I was experimenting with entries around my signal...
And yes, I did do some counter trend trades as well as some break out trades, neither of which are part of my system or within my current comfort zone, but on an experiment day, everything is open for testing including these two. I did neither today and will not in normal trading.
So while I truly appreciate the concern about over trading and being out of control, don't be alarmed, it was just experiment day.
I will see about 3-8 good signals a day during my trading hours, more if I want to sit here all day which I don't but I had time yesterday so I traded the entire session. Which is another reason I had a ton of entries....if you recall, yesterday was a nice trend day and produced tons of entries......I passed on probably another 40 or so because I was tired....
Remember, those of us with small accounts really need to make each trade count as best we can, so taking a day to fine tune entries is ok in my book. Today it was back to the real world to use what I learned yesterday. Same tomorrow.
I will be posting my weekly results on Friday afternoon.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
A funny thing happened on the way to trading success. I've had a ton of self inflicted pressure to perform. Then I compounded it by having this thread. For some dumb reason, I've felt compelled to prove to all the readers of this thread that I can trade well. Never mind the real reason for the thread.
Then today, I lost money today, not a lot but a little. A friend of mine has a terrible cancer and we talked early and I had him on my mind so perhaps I was not with it today. Regardless of the reason, I lost a bit of money.
Later on, I am talking to another trader on the phone and the subject of today's results came up. I told I lost money today and he asked me how much. Honestly I could not remember. And today, I really did not care how much it was. What mattered was did I trade well and I did not. I traded in the chop.
After my conversation with my trader friend, I realized I no longer care what my readers think about my trading. I want helpful input for sure if they are so inclined, and I am pleased when they show concern about an issue or congratulate me on a success, but to please them or try to prove something to them is no longer part of my thinking. My trading is a business, my business in fact, and the only one that can make it successful or a failure is me.
I ran a very successful mortgage business for many years by being different from every one else and not caring one bit what my competition thought, (I live in a small town so I knew all of them personally, the fact I did not care what they thought pissed them off I think!Being the highest non bank producer in town may have had something to do with as well!) The only one that mattered was my customer and what they thought. This journal is a place for me to stay accountable to myself and document my journey, nothing more. If others find value in it, then I am pleased about that as well but that is not the ultimate goal.
I had one good trade today out of 5 and it was a loser. Why was it good? Because I took the entry I thought was valid and held it until it was not. At which I time I closed it out. The previous 4 trades were 50/50 on profitability. But I am unsatisfied with trades 2,3,4 because they were fear based trades and violated the first rule of trading which is protect your capital. They were in the chop and I knew it. Trade one was the only trade that was executed with precision and per my rules. But I did not hold it long enough.
Tomorrow is another day, the market is open and I will be there with my trading plan in hand and with strict adherence to that plan.
I recognize this post is a little testy and perhaps arrogant or as I used to say, "pissy" if I can say that here. If not, one of the mods can edit the post. I don't mean it that way, its just that its time for me to stand up on my own two feet and "man up" as it were and trade for me and not for anyone else.
Til tomorrow then,
Cheers.......
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
There is a saying, "Dance with the one that brought you". 18 months ago, I started trading by joining a trading room where the guy was a fib fanatic. His reasons were sound and he used multiple times frames along with three moving averages on a tick chart to time his entries.
I think I've mentioned this before but I never understood the multiple time frame thing, still don't for the most part and the tick chart was blazing fast. We were trading ES during the bounce off the lows of the crash and it was fast and furious. Basically, I could not trade it.
So as you know, I went on the holy grail search, and now almost 18 months later, I am back trading fibs and last week I put the three moving averages on a tick chart as a method of filtering the chop and timing entries on my 6 range trading chart. First of all, I was awestruck at how simple the method was. Wish I could have gotten 18 months ago. Secondly, I decided I wanted to find something to combine or replace two of the three averages to reduce the clutter on the chart. I am a fan of clean and simple. I pinged someone to see how they had gotten their average to work and did not hear back, and while I was waiting, I played around with some color combinations, only two of the averages, etc.....some of the 42 entries the other day were from these "tweakings". I did not like any of these tweaks.
Then someone mentioned an indie here on nexusfi.com (formerly BMT) and I already had it as part of my holy grail search , and so I left all three MA's on and super imposed this indie on top of them and looked at both range bound day and a trending day. I ended up dumping two of the three MA's and the result is a nice clean chart with three things on it. My fib lines, an SMA and an ADXVMA set really fast. I looked at that last night and was really satisfied it gave me great entries around my fib lines.
The next step was to test live which was today. I had a couple of small live trades and then I worked both TF and CL using what I think will be my final chart set up.
I had real good success on TF and got slaughtered on CL. But in all honesty, I was really paying attention to TF and playing around in CL. I decided I cannot watch two things at once and do either of them right. But the end result is I am more than satisfied with the arrangement. So I will be using this for at least a month now to really dial it in but every single part of the arrangement is something I am comfortable with and believe in.
Both the MA and the ADXVMA are set really fast and so I only really use them at S/R and fib levels. This combination does really well at these levels, in between, they tend to give false signals but I don't want or need them for that. I already know where I will be trading and these are just for timing the entries better. The other benefit is they provide a nice exit point as well when getting close to a S/R or fib based target. Another benefit is stop placement, most of the time, the stop is smaller than I've been using and I like that a lot.
So tomorrow will probably be another small ball day, just to work out a couple kinks in my mind about taking either the first or second entry opportunity and then next week, it will be full bore.
It feels good to be here again. Back where I started and with a new and better understanding of the dynamics of price action and the reasons for using Fibs and SMA's in the first place.
For those of you that would like a good chop filter WITHOUT the whole fib thing, I would urge you to look at @perryg s thread,
After putting the ForceIndex onto the forum, it has developed into so many variations and questions, with the introduction of the boomerang, all of which is very similar to the way I trade, I though it best to put a full scale model up for discussion.
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His use of the MA's accomplishes the same things for the most part. I read part of the thread last night and its pretty darn close.
Cheers........
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
Well, if you're going to trade for you and not for anyone else, why make the comment up at the top of your post that you've felt compelled to prove to the readers of the thread that you can trade?
Just sayin'.....
Hence why I quietly trade my own account and don't post much -- if at all lately, actually...