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week's worst trade

week's best trade

Good week. Only traded SPY. The biggest winners in all SPY trades since starting this journal where trades which developed from a situation with the potential of a multi day move. It seems that if you could catch 2-3 of these moves you could make your month if you trade big enough size.

Not much trading last week. Did only one trade in SPY which was a loser. Last week I researched the use of a higher time frame as a filter for my trades in SPY. Also I'm thinking about my holding time. Currently I'm gravitate to a longer holding time (1-3 days) in SPY looking for setups in a...

worst trade this week

best trade this week

Did 5 trades this week. 2 winners and 3 losers. To make trading results of different stocks and methods comparable I normalized PnL to 1$ risked in a trade. SPY trading is doing ok. Stocks trading is losing money. The 3 biggest losses in stocks were caused by a) holding a position into fed...

You might be right. Should not play around with trading methods until I researched them. Regarding sim trading, I tried this but had to realise that I'm much more committed in the management and analysis of a trade if I do it for real. Though I'm trading small size.

Did no trades on Friday because I had no idea how to play the down gap so I just watched the market. I'm thinking about altering my strategy 1 a little bit. Instead of only playing setups in SPY I could create a very small basket of some ETFs or stocks (3-4, high volume, high vola) and take...

forgot the chart

had a short bias going into the trading day, market was stronger than expected but not strong enough for my afternoon long

strategy 1 stats so far (16 trades) win/loss ratio: 2,12 profit factor: 1,27 PnL/shares: 0,4 cent PnL chart (per 1 share)

hi all, trying to become serious about trading. strategy 1 I'm focusing on just trading SPY. the idea is to have a high focus on one thing and get a feel for it. trading only 20 SPY per trade so the PnL should not effect me and I can concentrate on learning market behaviour and executing...