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October 14th, 2014, 12:35 AM

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10/13/2014 - Real Money trade #1

Actually started trading real money today, pretty much for the first time in the Futures world. Good to see that the system still held up, though I would have been surprised if it didn't. I did get...

Forum: Trading Journals

October 9th, 2014, 08:54 PM

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Where oh where did my little stop go???

Checked all my bad trades from this week and last. Here are the results.

At a -4 stop:
9 bad trades for -36 ticks

At a -6 stop:
7 bad trades for -28 ticks - 2 winning trades at 8 ticks
...

Forum: Trading Journals

October 9th, 2014, 07:51 PM

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10/9/2014 - Good day, mostly

Today I took 3 trades, one great, one bad, and the third was great. So I ended up with a total of 4 ticks. The second trade went past my stop by 1 tick, then reversed. I'm going to go back and...

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October 9th, 2014, 12:25 AM

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10/8/2014 - Good, normal, the way it should be...

So - today was winner winner again. I'm hoping to end the week positive. I'm finding the groove and it seems to be working. My system.... +4/-4 I usually say I MUST stick to - and on losing days...

Forum: Trading Journals

October 9th, 2014, 12:19 AM

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10/7/2014 - Bad never looked so good -

Ok - so Monday I had a good day and called it bad. Today I had a bad day but I'm calling it good. I could see just from looking at the price action that it would be difficult to get any decent...

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October 6th, 2014, 08:54 PM

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Posted By Diamond5

Starting off right - 10/6/14

Ok - so off to a pretty good start for Monday. 4 trades - all "winners" to an extent.... I really should let my runners run because three of the 4 trades could have been done with the first trend. ...

Forum: Trading Journals

October 5th, 2014, 11:49 PM

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Posted By Diamond5

The truth of it....

So I loaded replay data for my bad week and re-traded it. Got at least $100 winners for each day. I believe that my largest stumbling block is simply the hours that the market is active and the...

Forum: Trading Journals

October 3rd, 2014, 11:44 PM

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Posted By Diamond5

10/3/2014 - Chucking mud

I'm still at it even though I ended up with $0 before commission. Bad week. I'm keeping at it.

Here is today's entry

Date Symbol # Cont. Commission Per Tick Value Total Contracts Total...

Forum: Trading Journals

October 2nd, 2014, 06:44 PM

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10/02/2014 - boo! 1 n 4 days can't help you retire

So - Another losing day today, but two of the 4 trades I took did go all the way up to my limit price, they just didn't fill. The bid never made it up there. So here is the sad stats....
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October 1st, 2014, 06:00 PM

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Posted By Diamond5

10/1/2014 - winner winner, chicken dinner

Stick to the rules and this works. Trade when you hear the bell! Just like Pavlov's dogs.... It's difficult for me since I am a manager and constantly have people coming in to my cube so I have to...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 30th, 2014, 05:53 PM

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Posted By Diamond5

9/30/14 - Down day

Here is today's trade. First trade set up ok, but pulled back on me and hit my stop +1 tick. I needed to wait for a better entry. Second trade went great, however I got greedy and moved my limit...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 29th, 2014, 09:17 PM

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Posted By Diamond5

Better Trade Journal XLS Sheet

Sorry for the hasty post of Trade Journal.xls - There were some errors on the graphs and some of the columns didn't have the formulas copied correctly.

This one is better.

Forum: Trading Journals

September 29th, 2014, 08:52 PM

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Posted By Diamond5

Diamond5 Tradinge journal

My system is pretty simple. I use some custom MA's, the CCI and Stochastics. I only look for 4 ticks per trade unless I am absolutely certain it will run. My strategy is +4/-4 so I'm hoping for a...

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