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that looks like excel to me. you can have it make a graph and put it in your spreadsheet pretty easily. left column is his final balance and bottom is just number of days. you can do a lot more complex graphing and calculating in excel if you know how or care to learn.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I have come across many discouraged traders over the years. I hope this journal will encourage them to try again with LESS RISK. I think "trading scared" is a much bigger factor in (poor) trading performance than most people realize. I have noticed a very BIG change in my attitude, and especially my willingness to take losses. Until you can take a loss like a champ and honestly say "It's just part of the game" like when you play blackjack or hi-lo or even baseball (best hitters strike out 6 of 10 times!!!) then you are trading TOO BIG.
One Micro E-Mini on a $1000 account is like one ES contract on a $10,000 account. It has been very helpful to think of things this way.
But you still have to honor all your rules.
I still have to fight the temptation to "load up" on contracts when my confidence is high. I am still often wrong, and I need to be improving as I go. This account is NOT the end goal! I need to get it to $5k and then I will try the NQ and YM again.
No doubt, update after todays trading I hit a 5% return by sticking to my rules for the first time in I don't know how long. First positive day in weeks tbh. Thanks for the words of encouragement.
Way to go! Following the rules allows you to trade "emotion-less" (not "emotion-free"!!) I hope you can keep it up. The 5% is not sustainable long term, but following your rules can be.