After the drudgery of the February series, a better day today. It was the Budget Day. For me, it was a shorts day, with 7 shorts and no longs. That also meant that I could not make anything in the almost 300 point upmove - in fact, I...
Monday, February 29, 2016
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Last week's trades - Day Trading: Feb 22-26, Intraday
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Finally, updated the stats and charts of last week's trades. It is a pain to mark these up at the end of the week. Going forward, I shall try to update the trades daily.
Monday's trades:
I tried trading mechanically of the constant volume...
Friday, February 19, 2016
End of a bad week - Day Trading: Feb 19, Intraday
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The best thing about this week is that it's over. Was trading quite unplanned, but mechanically....
Trade 1: Short -9 points
Trade 2: Short -3 points
Trade 3: SAR Long -12 points
Trade 4: Long -9 points
Trade 5: SAR Short +9 points
Trade 6:...
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Acceptable regret? - Day Trading: Feb 18, Intraday
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At this point, I am no longer even thinking straight. I have been hit by loss after loss after loss this month, and the account is in a stagnating rut this month. Plus, I wasn't focused on the screen at all today. How do I get the motivation...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Another day wasted - Day Trading: Feb 17, Intraday
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Mechanical Trading System, so I get to blame it on the mechanical rules that I created.... I am kinda happy with the change to a more liberal entry rule. That gave me more opportunities today, and most of the entries were good.
The Mechanical...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Not a very good day - Day Trading: Feb 16, Intraday
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Range Compression Trading System - mechanical version continues. The first 3 trades hit their Initial Stop Losses. The fourth trade redeemed a bit. Number of trades have increased since I am now using a more liberal mechanical entry criteria....
Monday, February 15, 2016
Back to the Range Compression Trading System - Day Trading: Feb 15, Intraday
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I am back to trading the Range Compression Trading System, with certain modifications. I am now trading it completely mechanical.
The main change from the way I traded the Range Compression Trading System in January is in the entry....
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Falling Knife ⚔ Stalling Knife - Day Trading: Feb 12, Intraday
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I am so done with this Momentum Lagging Trading System..... (for now). The intention of this Trading System was to catch the falling knife when it had momentum, and ride it to profit. What I had not bargained for, was the number of times that...
Thursday, February 11, 2016
What a miss!! - Day Trading: Feb 11, Intraday
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Today is the third day of trading the Momentum Lagging Trading System, and I am already hating it, with enough justification.
It was a downtrend day all the way. I had guessed that the Range Compression Trading System would have entered Short...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Trading the Momentum - Day Trading: Feb 10, Intraday
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After all those dark days, comes a glimmer of hope. Today is my first real positive close in February - though not a big one.
I started trading this Momentum Lagging Trading System yesterday - I really need to get into Onomastics now, I called...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Finally, system hopped - Day Trading: Feb 9, Intraday
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For most of this calendar year, I have been trading a single Trading System - the Range Compression Trading System, off the M15 charts. Finally, today, I decided to System Hop and try some new entry rules. With this new Trading System, I am...
Monday, February 8, 2016
Patience did not work today - Day Trading: Feb 8, Intraday
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Today was another day when patience did not work. I took a single Long trade today, and booked a loss of 13 points in it - after being that trade for nearly 4 1/2 hours with a Most Favorable Excursion of 36 points. My mechanical Trailing Stop...
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Bad run continues - Day Trading: Feb 5, Intraday
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This month appears to be a repeat of December. Last week's score has been +8, -59, -31, +1, -40. I have lost 122 points this month.
Friday's trading was without a real plan (discretionary?), but it mostly stuck to the Range Compression...
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Time to Change the System - Day Trading: Feb 4, Intraday
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January was a good month for the Range Compression Trading System, but February has been jittery. Except for Jan 29, the first day of the February series, all days have been bad.
The Graphs are not looking great. Since Jan 21, there has been...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
House Money Effect and Intra-Trade Drawdown
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I have been (officially) trading the Range Compression Trading System since January 6.... but I have been trading the system even earlier. In November, I was mechanically trading this very same system, but with somewhat different rules. Even...
Nothing goes right - Day Trading: Feb 3, Intraday
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It's nothing goes right - part 2 today.
Today, I shifted to 100% mechanical trading. The trading system is the same as earlier - I was trading the Range Compression Trading System that I have been trading since January 6. Until yesterday,...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Worst Trading Day of 2016 - Day Trading: Feb 2, Intraday
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After the initial sluggishness, and the short volatility after the announcement, this was probably a good day to day trade. However, I have just got my worst trading result of the year.
All the 5 trades that I took hit their initial Stop Losses....
Monday, February 1, 2016
Very Small Profit - Day Trading: Feb 1, Intraday
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Dull action today. Price mostly stayed within 30 point Initial Range. Took 2 Short trades. The first was a loss. The second short, on the Breakout Failure of 7600 gave a profit - enough to beat the loss by a small margin. After being in that...
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