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Forum: Trading Journals

September 19th, 2016, 04:04 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

Inletcap - No problem. Several of us posted in...

Inletcap - No problem. Several of us posted in this journal that trading multiple contracts was essential to success. I also posted that I found Tap In's number of trades reaching 1R, 2R, etc. too...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 18th, 2016, 03:43 PM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

Well, the idea was to identify a breakout with...

Well, the idea was to identify a breakout with the hope that it would lead to a larger trend. I had used Donchian channels in some tests, VWAP straddles once price was within a reasonable range, VWAP...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 18th, 2016, 11:19 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

Completed testing now and I am ashamed to admit...

Completed testing now and I am ashamed to admit that my initial profit calculations had an incorrect formula that overstated the results. Tap In - you were right to be skeptical of the results, they...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 17th, 2016, 04:48 PM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

My interpretation of puke point is the original...

My interpretation of puke point is the original stop and I am basing my testing on that. For instance if I entered a position with a 20 tick stop, I am adding another trade halfway to that, i.e. it...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 16th, 2016, 10:39 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

You're welcome - I was quite surprised at the...

You're welcome - I was quite surprised at the results too.

The win rate for 2R was higher than expected. I did not think basing trades on breakouts would lead to that high a win rate and expected...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 16th, 2016, 04:08 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

50% win rate 2:1 Reward to Risk

Hi Tap In,

I have been doing a fair bit of research on optimum exit points since it is one of the weak areas of my trading. Since you mentioned the difficulty you had with maintaining a 50% win...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 6th, 2016, 11:57 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

You're welcome. As you can see there were several...

You're welcome. As you can see there were several reasons why I ultimately ended up using an approach that relies heavily on both pyramiding into and scaling out of trades and explaining it this way,...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 6th, 2016, 08:51 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

Disagree with you somewhat here - On any...

Disagree with you somewhat here - On any individual trade, I need to get trade direction right to make money, but there is no guarantee that I will make money even if I do. Usually a too close stop...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 6th, 2016, 04:43 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

Sorry for the late reply, but I live in a...

Sorry for the late reply, but I live in a different time zone and usually switch off everything at 18h00 my time. I see several replies came in, and I also know you are trying to get funded by TST,...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 5th, 2016, 04:24 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

One thing I have learnt over time, is that it is...

One thing I have learnt over time, is that it is crucial to have more than one contract (or batches of shares) when trading. It changes a trade from a right/wrong type scenario into a multi-faceted...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 5th, 2016, 03:52 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

Just another thing to ponder - would lower time...

Just another thing to ponder - would lower time frame entries not also expose the account to more chop? Could this additional chop not negate the benefits of more "precise" entries?

I don't have...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 5th, 2016, 03:48 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

That is not quite true. You can keep a mechanical...

That is not quite true. You can keep a mechanical 10 or 15 tick stop on any timeframe although if you do use them, I would advise keeping them at 20 or even 30 ticks to avoid unnecessary chop....

Forum: Trading Journals

October 26th, 2015, 05:27 AM

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Tap In's Corner

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Posted By grausch

Interesting results - I came to similar...

Interesting results - I came to similar conclusions as you did. I trade stocks (swing trade to longer term) so my background is a little different, but in the current market environment there is a...

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