This has taken me a long time to start penning down my thoughts. Reason for me to start this is to keep track of my thoughts & thinking. Later go and analyze it to compare against my actual trades/charts & any thinking I may have not during the trade day. I think this will help me to keep the journal as a central repository to compare my thinking against any other notes I might have in a db.
What I will start journalling is my ideas & thoughts. I at times may or may not base OVN statistics and formulate bias before the same is available. This is due to time I may or may not get to journal before the RTH US. However I do keep a note on OVN stats before RTH and figure if the hypothesis still holds merit as in the journal.
I do use many indicators...my main platform is tradestation. However have no affiliations with any of the vendors from who I have indicators. From time to time I may throw in a chart as deemed fit...else this thread will journal my bias for the next trading day. Though I use analytic's and indicators overtime I have found certain patterns which serves as my bias for next trading day.
If you have any questions or disagree with anything....please feel free to comment. I will humbly try and assimilate your question & try to answer to the best of my ability.
Well what also inspired me to start today...for the ES session I had a bias to short which never happened as I woke up late. I only had my volatility trades on for the day which I had got into 2 days back so not able to trade ES was not a major concern. My bias however on ES when EU session started on 12/11/13 at 12am PST was a short @ 1806 -1809 with a drop anywhere between 15-20 pts. Well the market did sell off w/o me in :). However due to rollover the data may be a little funky over next couple of days which could also throw bias off track:).
Note:- Since I am a discretionary trader I may or may not trade my bias as in this journal....depending on change of observations/change of thoughts or any market conditions.
Usual disclaimer:- Please note anything in this thread is just my observation. It is not a recommendation to anyone to buy/sell or trade. As this is again just a collection of thoughts & should not be used for trading by anybody.