20151208 - Making bad luck out of good luck

From 11 AM onward, I was hardly available at the terminal today. I traded despite that. You could say that I was trading blind. For all my exertions, all I got is the usual downer. I got 11 points from 5 trades today +15, -7, +1, -4 and +6. Yesterday, I had 8 points from 6 trades. *All pre-brokerage points

Trade 1 exit was unlucky. The SL hit when I was away from the terminal.
I was also away when the Trade 2 entry happened. Was lucky to have been able to exit (SAR), just before the spike up. Then, I lost an opportunity to lock few points in Trade 3.

Trades 4 and 5, that happened during the last hour fall, were worse - they resulted from typos. My fingers ☹ slipped on the keyboard or something .... I don't know what happened, I was not focused. I clicked something on my keyboard, and thought that I had gone long at 7755, when in reality it was the exit from a short position that I had created without even realizing it (maybe from another typo...). So, when I thought I was exiting my long at 7746, I was actually creating a new short position. Then, just as I was about to close the terminal, I realized that I was short, and placed a tight SL which got hit. Which means that I had the good luck of being short twice in the fall with small risk (without even realizing it), and the bad luck of exiting those positions for nothing. Confusing? Sure, even I deciphered these trades only after EOD.

All of this was updated live on my twitter timeline - available on the right panel of this web page.

Since I shifted to discretionary trading this month, I have not had any big losses. So, I will keep playing this system, though the System Hopping itch is creeping in.