Recent content by CarlosDanger

Hi Scalpmaster - thanks for the advice. I've added the 15-minute chart to my main display to help with the longer-term view. Also, I've switched to ES almost exclusively. After looking at several hundred trades, I found I just wasn't making money on CL. Probably because of those pennies...

Hi everyone - just as an update, I'm still posting a journal entry every trading day at tradinglogblog.wordpress.com. These days I'm trading ES and CL, and after a dreadful month or so, I'm finally starting to get more consistently profitable. I didn't get much feedback here, and the...

Five profitable days in a row, nice job. I like how you track the time you spent trading. I should try that myself.

The past few days I've been dabbling in the premarket with some modest success. Today I did spectacularly well, at least with CL. I made my first trade when I saw CL starting to break out from a four-hour trading range. That got me a quick +85. I placed another trade quickly, hoping to get a...

Today I started live trading in the premarket and made +83 on ES. What a great way to start the day. I also placed an early trade in ES that I closed out shortly after the US markets opened for +271. I could have shut down and gone to sleep happy at that point. But I didn't. Instead I began a...

The big event today was the FOMC announcement at 2pm EDT. I didn't expect much to happen before then, so I skipped trading the morning session except for some practice on the simulator and a small premarket scalp in CL (+35). At 2pm the Fed announced no change to rates. The market's initial...

Apologies for the messy presentation. I haven't figured out how to copy and paste Excel tables in a way that retains the formatting. If you want to see the numbers in a better format, they're on my blog - tradinglogblog.wordpress.com

September 21, 2016 I made 16 trades today, all in CL, for +368 profit, which is a very nice result for me. But how I got there was pretty ugly. Several hours before the market opened I was paper trading and doing well. So I thought I would switch over to my live account for a quick scalp as...

Anthony Weiner? What a silly name! Carlos Danger is way cooler.

September 20, 2016 After last week’s terrible trading, I decided to paper trade futures until I racked up some profits. But before the market opened, I made +1,300 on the simulator and decided to go ahead and live trade in the most cautious way possible. It worked. I made five trades in CL...

Hi all - I've been trading seriously for a few months and have been keeping a journal at tradinglogblog.wordpress.com. I thought it might be nice to hear from other traders, both rookies and experts, as I struggle to develop some expertise in trading. I started my journal on July 1 with $38k...

Hi TonyNYC - I just stumbled across EliteTrader and read your journal. I registered just to comment but I might try to see if I can start posting my own journal here. Your trouble with the PDT rule reminded me of a rough period I went through earlier this year, when I day traded my account to...