I wasn't posting lately, so I just wanted to write my 50 cent for the last few trading days and post some charts..
So what did I have, a very bad time during december, I lost some money, but still lost about 50-100$ a trading day, so it's in the borders of logic, thursday was a great day for me, I made 178.5$ and returned the confidence to me, it was after some time which I didn't trade since I had to rest from trading for a while..
Today I had a bad day, lost 128$, at one point I was -205$, but I recovered from it a bit, anyways I know what my problem was, I didn't put auto stop loss, so I've lost a lot in the first trade, and then I had to "recover" so I lost more, anyways, next time I just need to remember to put stop loss each time I trade, I used to do it automatically.
One last thing, in addition to what is taped to my screen, I'll be taping "always take the first 40$ out fast", since I think it will help me, I see that many trades I take come 40 dollars up, and then lose, but if I'll start positive, I think I'll have better chance to end the day positive.
Here are some trades:
Monday, December 31, 2007
Lately..
Posted by Tomer at 10:41 AM 0 comments
Labels: Day trading
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Struggle..
December isn't going so well, and I keep figuring out the hard way, stuff I already figured out in the past.
For example in the last trading day I've had an impulsive rush to just buy something, I didn't wait for a clear long term nice signal, I've just traded by the 5min chart only, without confirmation from the 15 min chart, I think that I'm doing bad lately because I'm kind of in a rush to trade, whenever I'm not in a rush to trade I either earn money, or just fall asleep, waking up to see that my signal could have been a 100$+ winner(on 1 contract).
On the positive side, didn't have days where I lost more than I allow myelf lately, no blowup days, so I think that I'm in the right way, I just need to tape to my screen : "Only take trades with sound signal that you had to wait for".
Trading stocks is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, and I hope for it to also be the most rewarding thing I'll ever do.
Posted by Tomer at 1:05 AM 0 comments
Labels: Bad day, Day trading
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Some thoughts..
This was supposed to go as a comment reply to my good friend Asaf (StockHunter), which is doing so well lately, but I decided to write it as an entire post:
It is so god damn hard!! sometimes I get such a frustrations like when I get out of trade that minute later is going my way HARD!
I think that I understand now how trading is gonna be like, I used to imagine it as a fast phase action that last the whole day, but then I realized that it's too stupid to "trade on instincts" , so I set myself the rule of not trading before 11am (so I could see nice setup intraday), and then the rule of trading at home so I could be more focused.
Now I see that I just need to wait, most of the day, for those 3-4 setups that we are so familiar with, and only when they come I should take them, not before, trading impulsively = big losses, trading like an experienced poker player is what I should do, "Fold" most of the day, not being fooled by the market noise, and just wait for clear justification that the trade that I took should work, and take it, get the profits fast, and wait again.
Let's hope December will be better, goal for this month is modest, only 400$, nothing more, little by little, after few up months, I'll higher my contracts size which is 1 right now, I just need the confidence first.
Posted by Tomer at 12:41 AM 0 comments
Labels: about, Day trading, Trading career
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Yesterday -94$ today +37$
Well, today I wasn't such a nice day, but it ended up positive, which is better than negative, I had 1 missed opportunity that could have given me +100$, I was already in the trade, but 20 seconds before it went down sharp, I decided it might go against me, and settled for +10$ :(
Posted by Tomer at 12:35 PM 1 comments
Labels: Day trading, E-mini
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tweety animation!
Hi!
This is why I was away lately, I've been doing animation of tweety for some competition, it was a bit difficult to do animation after such a long period of time on which I didn't touch 3d animation at all, Hope you like it:
Posted by Tomer at 9:03 AM 2 comments
Labels: 3D Animation
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
-87$ one of these days..
Well I'm glad it has only been -87$ down day, instead of what happened to me Friday which was losing 154$ (54$ more than my rules say).
I started the day with a loser(1R), then a winner (1.5R), and from then it got messy, I kept trying to bet where the bottom will be, and go long, instead of just going with the flow, and short the market, I'm not sure how many times can I read the basic rule "The trend is your friend" and still not follow it, unpredictably enough the only good trades I made were on the short side..
In days like this, what I should do it stop try to fight the trend, wait something like 40 to 60 minutes recap myself, and begin the hunt for a good trade, today I was focused too much on the same false breakout, trying to win it all over again, and it didn't break the upper trend line of the downtrend.
Overall I wasn't in sync with the markets today (forcing long trades in downtrend), and I hope to do better tomorrow.
P.S - Tweety animation is coming along great, I'll post the result in the next few days.
Posted by Tomer at 12:07 AM 0 comments
Labels: Bad day, Day trading
Monday, November 19, 2007
+100$(net) means a nice day..
Today I had a nice day, starting with an initial losing trade, and then a streak of 4 profitable trades, while some of them could have given me more profit, I took minimal profit from some of them because I wasn't sure what the market will do.
I like days like today, where everything is sain, all rules are kept, finishing the day with profit.. that's the way it always should be.
I stopped trading early today since I'm currently working on some 3d animation I'm doing to try and win free ski vacation (maybe in the alps!), I love snowboarding and I love 3d animation so the mix is perfect, here is a WIP (work in progress) from my animation:
Posted by Tomer at 12:24 PM 2 comments
Labels: 3D Animation, Day trading, good day