mtzimmer1 

I agree with your analysis. I expect some chop but overall am expecting lower prices in the coming week and weeks. Sent using the NexusFi mobile app

I look forward to any and all volatility. BTW Zimmer, I really do like your Journal/trades. I hope you keep posting.

Take care,
K

Amazing what "a little bit of Jessica," and china will do overnight. Here is my morning chart, but I think, its all news today. Markets will most probably have wide swings on every tweet/breaking news. So, I was wrong, markets are anything but boring today!



Good trading to all,
K

Very hard to take a trade until much lower or higher....
Just sitting my hands waiting for news!



K

And it was not a good idea. I got out very quickly, luckily with some profit, +$16.



Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing.

K

Here is a trade that I would normally do based on channel support/resistance. But notice the volume on the up bar is much higher ( Same on the ES) than the one on the down bar. We are maybe going up soon, but would like some (positive) news confirmation.




Still flat, looking to buy.
K

I really don't like Gap down days and have never been able to trade them well. Today was no exception. Everything looks easy now, but I could not find a good entry point. I had few planned, but either the price broke these levels with ease, which scared me, or I just did not pull the trigger. There were also a couple of breaking news, but I thought they were just a re-hash, nothing new. It was a mistake not the short additional bad news.
No MES trades, just the spread trade earlier.

I am only up $16 for the day!

Chart explanation:

1) It was a good long and should have taken for the daily goal. I did not. since it did not reach the line.

2) I had planned a long but price broke support with ease, so I back out.



K

I really cannot pull the trigger on anything. Any kind of news will kill any set up or S/R on any TF. I did see a good set up last night ( long MES), but did not feel like staying up all night looking for news . I am just watching the news and if anything breaks either way, I will join in. I did buy some weekly Apple calls ( exp in 3 days). There was a good set up on the daily. Total risk there is about $200.




K

I did not trust any of my VSA/PA set ups today. It seems like a day were everyone waiting on a tweet! I did trade the news some in the morning and lunch ( around work). Basically, I wait for breaking news and add to winners as price moves. This is for MES. There is one trade for CL and that was a mistake. I clicked the wrong instrument. I got out as soon as I could and luckily, I was out with a tick. No spreads today. My AAPL calls ( 2) are down a total of $89 as of this post.

Here are my trades chart and list:





I am up with $153 and will stop for the day.

K

I am still holding at a loss, I will for sure bail at BE, if it gets there.

Here were the FX spreads stand as of this morning:



K

Again, just news trading today and one spread. The spread closed only at +$27 only as NQ was moving very fast. I am still holding the AAPL calls and did buy cheap CL out of the money calls as well. I have the feeling that both of these instruments are over done and should see a bounce back soon.





I am up $158 today and will stop at that get back to work. Easy day, with low stress and draw.


K