Trader P/L 2010

[diablo272 10]

Sometimes people take a break from the internet.

[brownsfan019 17]

what happened to brownsfan?

 

I'm here lurking EJ and chiming in on some threads. A little vacation from posting daily I guess was needed.

[enochbenjamin 10]

wow! i need to be spanked! I broke the ultimate trading axiom - never let a winner turn into a loser. was up $370 and in a futile attempt to get $130 more bucks wound up losing it all +another 470

 

-$470 :crap: :crap: :crap: :crap: :crap: :crap: :crap:

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

-$750

 

 

 

Very bad day. The first time in a while the emotions got to me and put me in some stupid trades. Its like when price just won't go in any direction, my mind says "oh, you (oil price) want to just chop around, well I'll show you, I'll enter without any setup whatsoever! Ha!"

 

I simply cannot watch the chart when oil is in preinventory lull. I will find something to trade so from now on I'll either find something else to trade during that period or sleep in a little and get to the charts in time for inventory. Of course today's post inventory action was slow and choppy but that is unusual.

[sappjason 10]

+$4208. Great day for me. Go figure.....

 

Jason

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

+$348

 

 

 

Great day of profits for the small range moves that were provided. All the volume was split between the J and K contract so none of the moves had much umph and someone did not want to let oil breakdown. Every try failed. Nice to have a day with no drawdowns though.

[sappjason 10]

+$2600. Not bad, but was up over $4600 earlier in the day. Man, I'm just never satisfied..... Human nature I suppose.

 

Jason

 

PS-I attached my year-to-date P/L graph as well.....

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

+$374

 

 

 

Well, I blew my chance for a great day. Oil moved big and I was early to short but just couldn't hold through it after getting used to all those choppy days. This is my recurring problem. We'll see if I can come up with some solutions this weekend. Okay week. Really need to improve things going forward.

[sappjason 10]

-$2060. Crappy day for me.

 

Jason

[JEHs 10]

In the end, down for the week, but still feeling strangely good about the week in general...

[thalestrader 14]

In the end, down for the week, but still feeling strangely good about the week in general...

 

Your average loss is getting smaller and your average win is getting larger. Still much room for improvements, but I believe this is the third week of improvement in that respect, so we might have a trend! That is likely the source of why you feel "strangely good" while being down. Improvement yields its own rewards.

 

I hope the trend continues for you.

 

Best Wishes,

 

Thales

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

+$838

 

 

 

I really wanted a better than $1000 day so I kept trading and ended up with a boatload of trades today. I was long at the LOD and considering the opening gap I was going to ride it but I saw those ticks start rolling in and cut the profits. A little dejavu day from March 15 when we got a trend up day right after a big breakdown. I first started trading oil back when these types of days were the norm and making money was easy. Luckily I stayed in SIM to get a handle on how to trade all the other narrow range days. If oil keeps making these types of moves, I'll be very happy.

[sappjason 10]

Great day Dinero.... Way to go.

 

Jason

 

SIM

+$838

 

 

 

I really wanted a better than $1000 day so I kept trading and ended up with a boatload of trades today. I was long at the LOD and considering the opening gap I was going to ride it but I saw those ticks start rolling in and cut the profits. A little dejavu day from March 15 when we got a trend up day right after a big breakdown. I first started trading oil back when these types of days were the norm and making money was easy. Luckily I stayed in SIM to get a handle on how to trade all the other narrow range days. If oil keeps making these types of moves, I'll be very happy.

[sappjason 10]

+$3400. Good day for me...

 

Jason

[daedalus 10]

Awesome to see you out of your DD and making new equity highs jason!

[sappjason 10]

Thanks daedalus.... Yes. It's always nice while it lasts....

 

Jason

 

Awesome to see you out of your DD and making new equity highs jason!

[bathrobe 10]

Today was my first day since the time change.

 

BTW, I am trading smaller size than I did last year and going for bigger moves.

 

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

-$412

 

 

 

I have got to stop taking momentum based trades, especially in historically choppy price areas. Drawdown was my worst in 5 weeks. Bad day. Can't blame the chop, I just traded poorly.

Edited March 23, 2010 by Dinerotrader

[sappjason 10]

+$707. This was a very painful day for me as my account was down over $1000 for the majority of the day and then around 3:00, it started coming back up.... Just dreadful and stressful, but ended up on a positive note.

 

Jason

[Cory2679 11]

Hey guys,

 

I just funded a new Oanda account with $100, which I'm going to begin trading next week. I plan to post my P/L here.

 

I'll be exclusively trading the EUR/JPY...8am-2:30pm & 7pm-11pm, Eastern Time.

 

I'm risking no more than 2% per trade, with on average just a handful of trades per day.

 

No daily goals, weekly goals, etc...just taking it one moment at a time, trading the best I can with what I'm given.

 

-Cory

 

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

+$118

 

 

 

Focused a lot on only entering in better setups and I am happy with today's trade number. I guess I was so focused on keeping the trade # down I forgot to let a trade move before exiting. Cut huge profit winners after 5 ticks for some reason. I'll have to fix that tomorrow.

 

I also skipped traking any trades before inventory. Even though it was a narrow range the only trade setup I saw yielded an easy 25 ticks.

[sappjason 10]

-$728. Not much to say.....

 

Jason

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

+$474

 

 

 

Couple bad trades but overall got great entries on the breakdowns. Everything was a little too slow for my liking but you take what you get. Good day.

[sappjason 10]

Great day Dinero. Congrats!

 

Jason

 

SIM

+$474

 

 

 

Couple bad trades but overall got great entries on the breakdowns. Everything was a little too slow for my liking but you take what you get. Good day.

[sappjason 10]

+$4924. I got very lucky today when the market completely reversed mid-afternoon. I was pretty disappointed in the early morning, but that turned around quite nicely for me.

 

Jason