Working on My Trading Setups 2012/04/25

I have made some slightly drastic changes to my setups.   As always, I will SIM trade for a while before I start actual trading. So I am picking out three random days over the last couple of months, and trading them in replay. That way I can get three weeks of SIM practice in [...]

Updating My Scalping Setups ( Day Trading ) 2012/04/22

I noticed that I have not updated my setups page in forever. I am  basically still using GeeBee ( although I don’t give it a name anymore ) but i has improved significantly over the years and I have added and removed things from the setup. I will have to go through and update my [...]

Traded the Yen Today 2012/04/19

I traded the Yen today while , was waiting for the euro open. Here is my blotter from Ninja Trader. I actually was trying out trading using a 1 Range chart. It went pretty well. I took two trades, the first one tanked, the second one made money. First trade, I took with a stop loss [...]

Don’t Get Distracted While Trading 2012/04/02

Had my biggest loss of the year last week. Man, it hurt. I was in a trade and I had my ‘failsafe’ stop set pretty far from the price. I start with it there and move it or just bail with the close button. It is also there in case my internet disconnects. Anyway, a [...]

Yes, This is my Real Account 2012/03/30

I received an email from someone who apparently reads my blog. Anyone can write me if you want ( and leaving comments is also nice ). So the answer is, yes this is my account I am trading and it is not a SIM account. I used to SIM trade and I recommend it for [...]

Trading the TF ( Russell 2000 ), Results for the day, meh. 2012/03/28

Could have been better, could have been worse. Started later in the day to trade after the consumer confidence report. 8:00 AM CST S&P Case-Shiller HPI 9:00 AM CST Consumer Confidence Started out with a three tick scalp. I was leaning on support at 842.2, and the first scalp held and I went back for [...]

Sitting Out Monday 2012/03/27

I never liked trading Mondays. Monday mornings and Friday afternoons have always been “not good” for   me. I think most of the market is getting started late or taking off for the weekend early. This Monday had the Pending Home sale report and Dallas Fed Survey. The Pending home sales would move the market [...]

Great Impression of Treading Water 2012/03/15

Treading water is where you spend a lot of energy swimming just to stay in one place. I feel like that this week. Three days of trading, 12 trades, and I am down about 1 ticks !!! Spent $40 bucks in comms so someone is making more money than me. I made 5 trades. 3 [...]

Trading On Fed Day 2012/03/14

I hate trading on Fed day. That is the day the Federal Reserve releases their report at 2:15 pm. The market is dead most of the day until the report. So a low volume choppy day. I made five trades for +$62.90, so combined with yesterdays -$56.84 I am up $6.06 week. Yeah. I spent [...]

Two And Done…. At a Loss 2012/03/13

Started out in with a 8 ticks loss, which was a bummer, but I came back. The second trade, I jumped out at 3 ticks, right at around 808.5 when it started getting “noisy”. Since it was a counter trend trade, I like to jump out quicker. Waited around for a re-entry short but did [...]

6J Yen Trading Back to Normal 2012/02/16

It has been a horrible first month of the year for me. The volatility was has been horrible. But last week, I think we started getting tradable (is tradable a word ?) volatility. It has held up so far and the Greek thing is … well …. Greek. It should not have a effect on [...]

Back To Normal… 2012/02/09

I was getting discouraged about the year so far. Every thing was not working. I need volatility to trade, and the markets were not giving me enough to work with in the first month of the year. The market would be dead, then suddenly come alive and move. This week so far, it seems like [...]

Nothing Today 2011/06/14

We had some reports that moved the market, and it was mainly an straight trending day, something that I am not particularly good at trading. I like reversals in trends and I did not see any good places in the morning to get in, so I wandered off. There were some trades later in the [...]

Glad To Be Back, and I Made Money 2011/06/13

Today was a typical day in trading. I was trading and something in my personal life got me out of the zone so to speak. Trading distracted is no way to trade, so better to walk away which is what I did after two trades. These trades were in my smaller account on a different [...]

Roll Over Time !! ( Is it September Already ) 2011/06/09

I must admit I messed this one up. For some reason I came and checked my econ calendar and noticed that today was roll over day. I really thought it was next week for some reason. I don’t trade on roll over days for good reason. I tend to lose money on roll over days [...]

Mad Again 2011/06/09

ok, so started again with a loss. Trading the TF this time. I hopefully will be able to get back to the grains in Sept. They are my first love anyway. The first two trades were good. The third trade, the price sat on my limit price to get out of the trade. Reversed to [...]

Horde Of Setups 2009/05/14

I know my setups look small. That is what I am looking for in a trading system. I want several high sharpe ratio systems trading trading at the same time. I am working on a few different setups, that I hope to automate them with Ninja trader, ’cause I know I cannot trade that many [...]

Craptacular Day 2009/05/13

It wasn’t such a bad day, just I messed up and moved my stop on one trade. True , I only would have been marginally profitable, but still another day in the W column. It touched my entry point and immediately went all the way to my “OMG” stop. I stupidly moved my stop because [...]

Updated Setups 2009/05/08

I updated my setups page to include my ‘lunchbox‘ setup.

Another Monday, Another Week 2009/05/04

Well, this weekend I have been fooling around with TWAbVol. I still have not had enough time to play with the indicator. I heard that another trader using it had a lot of success with it over the last two weeks, but using it in a totally different way than me. I use it to [...]