Trader P/L 2010

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

 

+$655

 

Should have made like 60 more ticks on natural gas if i'd have managed the exits better. Good day.

 

[edabreu 10]

A few swing trades dragged down my PnL... Otherwise a good month. Too many trades.

My goal this year is to get my average trade up to $38, and reduce the number of trades.

So far I am realizing that my percentage may have to slip a bit in order to keep the bigger trade. We'll see.

[brownsfan019 17]

CL sure is a zippy little market, Brownie. I never realized how that thing can just roll thrrough ticks like it does. Its like trading the 6E during a news release, but it seems for CL, the quick ticking keeps right on rolling. I see a lot intraday gaps on the tick chart as well. They usually fill immediately, but I see many times where atrade will take place at, for example, 73.28, and the next print is 73.18, but price quickly rolls the dime and ends back at 73.28, even if for just a tick.

 

Best Wishes,

 

Thales

 

Yep, this little bugger moves. Anyone thinking of trading this should watch live, real-time charts first.

[brownsfan019 17]

1-29-10: +$820

 

Good day on oil. Cut it a trade short, but it's Friday!

 

[enochbenjamin 10]

Pissed off at myself for missing 2 great setups - but i'm profitable so i better quit bitching!

 

[brownsfan019 17]

Pissed off at myself for missing 2 great setups - but i'm profitable so i better quit bitching!

 

 

And only 11 trades?!

 

[enochbenjamin 10]

And only 11 trades?!

 

 

 

(Actually 12 - I just made a late afternoon trade is ES +75)

 

My numbers are lower than I like (I prefer to be on the other side of 500) but I am back to profitable with only one losing day (small) this week.

 

Thanks to all in this thread for keeping me honest!

[thalestrader 14]

I am continuing what I plan to be a three week exploration demo trading CL. At the end of three weeks, if all goes as well as it has gone so far (last week and today), I will replace the ES as my non-currency future for day trading and replace it, at least temprarily, with CL.

 

Here is my demo blotter from today - using Ninja trader, and again, it is a demo, not live.

 

 

 

Best Wishes,

 

Thales

[enochbenjamin 10]

broke a lot of rules -1100

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

+$22

 

Oil worked me over today. Like I posted before, trending days are not for me. A few reasonable trades on the other futures saved me from annihilation.

 

[enochbenjamin 10]

Like I posted before, trending days are not for me. A few reasonable trades on the other futures saved me from annihilation.

 

Amen! I hate trending days - give me a range bound market any day! lost -250 in Oil and had to switch over to ES to make some money.

 

+287.50 for the day

[edabreu 10]

The overnight was pretty good. Letting my robot do the trading for me while I sleep.

[Dinerotrader 10]

The overnight was pretty good. Letting my robot do the trading for me while I sleep.

 

My robot was up all night trading and he started off well but then lost a couple big ones, got emotional, and revenge traded till morning. Not good p/l in the end.

[thalestrader 14]

My robot ... lost a couple big ones, got emotional, and revenge traded till morning.

 

Now that was one of the funniest posts I've read in a good long while.

 

Nice one, Dinero!

 

Best Wishes,

 

Thales

[edabreu 10]

My robot was up all night trading and he started off well but then lost a couple big ones, got emotional, and revenge traded till morning. Not good p/l in the end.

 

Ha ha ha ha ... you better get that thing checked. Could be a lose screw!

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

 

+$105

 

Can't seem to filter out the bad trades right now.

 

[Dinerotrader 10]

SIM

 

+$105

 

Can't seem to filter out the bad trades right now.

+$595

 

Thought I was done but then oil started moving right before close. Here is the new P/L. Nice little 40 tick, 30 second trade.

 

[enochbenjamin 10]

Oil aint been treating me right so I had to leave that hussie alone. Just ES today.

 

[Dinerotrader 10]

+$1,670

 

Yea! Best SIM day ever.

Oil was acting weird in the morning so I gambled on it being a big down morning and just trailed my stop at pullbacks. Keeping a trailing stop 30 ticks back is hard on SIM, I can't imagine doing it with real money. 6E was bad. For some reason I just couldn't get my head around the fact that I should be short the Euro. Calling it a day now before I go blow my profits on bad setups thinking I'm supertrader.

 

Edited February 4, 2010 by Dinerotrader

[daedalus 10]

Great job Dinero - good call on walking and keeping it in your account (real or not!)

[Mr_black 10]

No down day so far this year

[edabreu 10]

Good day considering all my a.m. computer problems and watching the CL tank without me....at least I earn a living.

I have to give some credit to my autobot....thanks.

[Dinerotrader 10]

Good day considering all my a.m. computer problems and watching the CL tank without me....at least I earn a living.

I have to give some credit to my autobot....thanks.

 

Yeah, my autobot was sitting the couch this morning eating cheese nips saying how it wasn't going to be a trend day since we just had one...yada yada. Then he turned into a camaro and drove off. Luckily, I didn't believe him and had a good trading day.

 

Sorry, the robot comments just flow everytime you talk about it. I'll try to resist the urge.

[edabreu 10]

Yeah, my autobot was sitting the couch this morning eating cheese nips saying how it wasn't going to be a trend day since we just had one...yada yada. Then he turned into a camaro and drove off. Luckily, I didn't believe him and had a good trading day.

 

Sorry, the robot comments just flow every time you talk about it. I'll try to resist the urge.

 

No, keep them coming. Those damned auto bots are trying to take over the market and put us discretionary traders out of business. If it wasn't for us discretionary traders, those auto bots would not have even been invented. As a matter of fact, they couldn't trade spit without us to hold their hands...

[bathrobe 10]

most of my homework works out but in the end I have a lot of trouble holding futures, I have a far out target and end up settling for something closer because of nerves. I need to work on this.