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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Don’t Be An Indicator Whore 2009/04/08

This is one of the most common annoying things. I see people switch from indicator to indicator and ‘guru’ to ‘guru’ constantly. This does not help. Two things I have learned is that nothing is free, and that it takes time to understand how your system trades. If you keep switching systems , you will [...]