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EVERYONE PLEASE BE HONEST! is my trading close to being on the right track? do i just need to make some small adjustments, or is my trading entirely wrong? thanks

babak, if you happen to track your trading like i do, would you mind telling me your expectancy and win rate? just so i have someone to compare myself to?

i tried what you said. if all losing trades were limited to -1, the system expectancy changes from +.11% to +.57% per trade. i think my win rate is kind of poor..only 36.67%.

thanks for the response. would you be willing to show an example of one of your trades?

actually, you're incorrect here. i'd say at least 50% of the trades were shorts. you can tell which are long and short by looking at the entry and intial stop. if the inital stop was lower than entry, it was a long trade. if the initial stop was higher than the entry, it was a short. you will...

the system had an expectancy of +.11%. that means per trade i averaged a .11% gain. so it did make money....but really, after commissions it didn't. :(

lol! seriously, i am disciplined when it comes to trading.. but i was just a little disappointed with my end results. plus, i'm joking a little... i'm willing to answer any question you need to know.

any time i had an R greater than -1, it was because of gaps or execution. once i enter a trade, i immediately entered my stop order. i really was disciplined, but some gaps and executions hurt me.

i'm a swingtrader and discipline is not my problem. i stuck to my system for a month without ever being emotional. after about a month's trading, the trades had an expectancy of +.11%, not including commissions. including commissions, i f%#@ing suck. here's a excel spreadsheet showing dates...

Hi, Could you please explain what "Calhoun's 2-day method" is? Thanks

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just wondering what people here use to determine to be long or short the market in general. i'm not really talking about intraday trading. for example, if you're a swing trader, what method do you use to decide to have a lot of long or short positions? do you use moving averages for say nasdaq...

thanks for the posts deeman.. interesting to see how things work. later