Emini S&P 500 Day Trading Journal

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no direction in the es yet

[MadMarketScientist 11]

After yesterday's big trend up today seems to be having trouble finding a direction -- here's some TF trades attached (Russell emini) and yesterday was a dream -- can't remember the last time on these charts had a trade that went 5 points and 8 points trailing, followed by another long trade that went 5 more points. However today you can see it's a sideways up and down, tried short once so far didn't work. Almost always seems to happen after a big move day prior.

 

[emg 12]

no trade today. es looks dangerous

[emg 12]

plan on going long 1123.75

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order cancel. .......

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Good Morning Traders!

[emg 12]

plan on going short 1146.00

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plan on going long 1123.25

[emg 12]

Good Morning Traders! We need big movement in the es!

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plan on going long 1136.00

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Good Morning Traders!

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plan on going short 1187.50

[KalixMOR 10]

How much profit did you made from the start of this "journal'

[Tradewinds 12]

You could create a blog, and post your trading journal there instead of the forum. I wish Traders Laboratory had a database tool, for logging data, posting profit/loss, and calculating win/loss rate and rate of return.

[MadMarketScientist 11]

Tradewinds,

 

That would be a really nice idea.

 

It is something we can look into though I'm not 100% sure how many would actually use it on a regular basis. Having worked with traders for many years it's really hard to get people to be disciplined about logging. Usually lasts a few days or a couple weeks and that's it.

 

MMS

[Tradewinds 12]

Having worked with traders for many years it's really hard to get people to be disciplined about logging. Usually lasts a few days or a couple weeks and that's it.

 

MMS

 

And I'm guilty of that myself. Getting hyped up about doing something that seems like a great idea, and then realizing that it's work. :frustrated:

But, it wouldn't be much work to download the trades from my platform, then upload a .csv file to a database in the group. My trades are logged automatically in my trading platform, and I can export the data. That way there would be no real data entry. Just data exporting, importing. And that data would be an objective way for people to decide whether what I'm doing is hype or real.

[emg 12]

Good Morning Traders!

[emg 12]

still waiting for a rend to form

[emg 12]

plan on going long 1210.50

[emg 12]

Good Morning Traders!

[emg 12]

plan on going short 1228.25

[emg 12]

Good Morning Traders!! Its been a while since posting trade in this thread

[emg 12]

plan on going long 1304.75

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plan on going long 1304.75

 

order cancel. missed by 4 ticks

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plan on going long 1298.25