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FIO Journal Challenge - June 2020 w/SharkIndicators
I thought I would join the June Journal Challenge contest and start a journal to participate in Big Mike's donation to help the poor people of Ecuador in these hard and uncertain times.
If I would end up by the first three …
Ranked 2nd, @hen322 received 48 thanks from 14 posts in June in their thread:
Bloodhound In a Nutshell
Bloodhound is an indicator that you attach to your chart. Then there is a little button on the upper right of the chart window to access it. Then you have to know what the Solver and Logic tabs are which are the only two tabs …
Ranked 3rd, @vmodus received 32 thanks from 26 posts in June in their thread:
Hello all! I am starting a new journal and shutting down my old journal. My old journal was focused on the Dow e-mini, which was really too narrow as I will trade anything that is profitable (magic beans, anyone?)
I decided to theme this journal around …
Ranked 4th, @Fibbee received 25 thanks from 20 posts in June in their thread:
In response to Big Mike charity drive for Covid Relief in Equador and SharkIndicators sponsorship of this journal challenge, I thought I would come out of the shadows and share whats going on inside my incubator.
Truthfully, I would …
Ranked 5th, @hen322 received 24 thanks from 22 posts in June in their thread:
All trades will be on my live account, using real money. The current market condition is still not optimal for trading, but I have noticed some spots where I could make a quick tick. I would also like to participate in getting Big Mike to donate and help …
Ranked 6th, @richw received 13 thanks from 61 posts in June in their thread:
I am determined to become a master trader focused primarily on CL (oil futures). This is a serious pursuit for me. I would prefer to hear advice from those who are experienced traders themselves and derive …
Ranked 7th, @tradepips received 7 thanks from 26 posts in June in their thread:
A really big thank you to Mike and his wife for giving us the opportunity to partner with them in helping the hungry in Ecuador. This journal is created to give another 10 meals as part of the fundraiser.
I plan to record on here, throughout the month …
Ranked 8th, @tenders received 7 thanks from 9 posts in June in their thread:
I have been trading for 18 years now mostly stocks and options, and have decided to dive in to trade futures for the last two years. My background is engineering and am still in the workforce.
I will be journaling here my foray into Algorithmic trading.
Let …
Ranked 10th, @planetkill received 6 thanks from 19 posts in June in their thread:
Come and take a walk with me...
I need all of y'all to come and take a walk with me...
I need for all of y'all to feel what I'm going through
And see what I see, if you got time to take a walk with me
Ranked 13th, @Medge91 received 2 thanks from 15 posts in June in their thread:
This week the AUS200 which I trade, moved down from 5877 high volume node to the 161.80% extension. I have found that the extensions are very good for a move out of balance to a new balance area or a rotation. The three extended fibs that is the 127.20%, …
Ranked 17th, @jodistrict received 0 thanks from 0 posts in June in their thread:
I am starting a trading journal today. The emphasis of this journal is trading techniques to help a beginning trader overcome fear of trading and build confidence. I am trading small sizes and making scalps. My goal will …
Ranked 18th, @erwinbeckers received 0 thanks from 0 posts in June in their thread:
I'm working on a strategy for trading CL front month, using SMA, Stochastics, and MACD. The idea is to do long and short positions based on the momentum of the indicators across multiple timeframes.
After some reading on the forum, and backtesting …
Ranked 21st, @CarlosMartinez21 received 0 thanks from 10 posts in June in their thread:
Im focused in NQ and ES, looking for first 30 min RTH breakout range high/low.
My strategy is based mainly on Price Action, 3 min and 377 (Nasdaq) 610 (ES)tick charts.
EMAS are just reference to execute a semi automated …
I appreciate everyone's patience as I wrote new code to account for the new Challenge.
Congratulations to the top three winners: @Mich62, @hen322, and @vmodus!
Thanks to @SharkIndicators, these three members will be receiving a $500 store credit at the Shark Indicators store to purchase whatever they wish! I will reach out to you via Direct Message in a moment to arrange for those prizes.
I hope to continue to see more journals in the future... I trust everyone found the process useful!
Thanks @Big Mike, also for making it possible for like-minded people from all over the world to connect, communicate, learn and grow together.
Thanks to all who participated in my journal and motivated me with their thanks. And thanks to @SharkIndicators for their sponsoring.
I did not use SharkIndicators BloodHound for the reason that I am a price action trader and don't use indicators (as a signal). Like almost every newbie I spent a whole lot of time investigating different systems, methods and indicators and really don't want to go back this path.
I think BloodHound is an unique product and can be of great use because it enables one to connect different indicators in all kind of ways to one system which one can test and automate (and thereby passing the hard to overcome human emotions). It's an area I have not explored before and I don't know if it will bring me further from where I am now or whether it will slow me down in my development. For now I know (also thanks to my journal) where I need to improve and I am focusing on that and nothing else. Maybe in the future when the time is right (and I have more time) I will take a look at it because I am curious if I would be able to automate a couple of setups I had some success with in the past. But as said, for now is not the time for me.
So now comes the question what to do with the $500 storage credit?
What I would like to do, if possible and allowed by Mike, is to sell the $500 credit to someone who really can, and will, use it. Maybe there are more people interested? Then it will go to the highest bidder by end of July. The pay will go to Mike's Oasis Americas foundation to help those in need in these turbulent times.
At the end of the month Mike will inform the highest bidder and will take care of the further processing. I hope I don't break any rules here. If for whatever reason my proposal gets turned down then just let me know and I will be okay with it.
If Mike approves and you are interested in the SharkIndicators $500 store credit then please place your bid in this thread. Please only bid what you really are prepared to pay. Keep in mind you're helping those in need. Thank you.
I appreciate the gesture. So basically you want to donate your $500 store credit to charity, specifically Oasis Americas, which is the charity my wife and I own. We are currently working on feeding the most hungry here in Ecuador. You want to auction it off to highest bidder, with that money going to Oasis.
I will ask if @SharkIndicators is ok with this. Please understand, they may not be. But that is for them to decide. I picture it working as so:
- Establish the highest bidder and price
- Ask that person to pay Oasis Americas via our PayPal link (credit cards, tax deductible)
- That way I can confirm the payment, and Shark can transfer the store credit to the new owner
Just a note. I updated the results post thanks to @bobwest pointing out an oversight. I updated my code to eliminate moderators from being eligible, so it removed my own entry (previously ranked 8th so didn't effect outcome). This is why total journals dropped from 22 to 21 after the edit.
Following up on the Charity aspect of this Journal Challenge.
So there were 21 journals as part of the challenge, which means my wife and I committed to donating 210 meals (21 x 10) to the most in need. However, we decided to increase that to 1,000 meals -- so we purchased another 1,000 cans of tuna, which was made possible by your journals!
This is in addition to the huge amount of money and meals already raised in the main thread by you guys: