Recent content by improvingstops

Jack, with all due respect, I'm focused on trading as fast as I can using a variety of analyses that I am intrinsically comfortable with. Proposing that I change that approach is misdirection. I made 1700$ before losses, after commisions, per contract on Friday. I lack not skill, and I have no...

here's that pdf I mentioned, really interesting

to traderzones, and others who could help: I've seen you mention Profit Factor, Sharpe, Max Drawdown When I am recording my trades on a spreadsheet, what stats should I record? I'm going to make it more comprehensive and useful -size of move that I entered -my ticks gained/lost...

I haven't been recording MAE, so will make a column for that in my spreadsheet for each trade, then check the results over the next two weeks. I'll add further columns to the spreadsheet to show the loss of different size stops. I'll spend a while each day graphing out the previous day's trades...

I just want to quickly reply now-thanks for your post. i use ninja without the subscription.

Thanks. I'll get into it more on the weekend, but that's roughly what I did on the chart I linked. I made two columns of over 300 trades, the real value, and the one where every large loss was cut at 120$. This works for me since I am trading 1 contract on almost all the trades, and almost...

here's the graph

Hi, I'm a futures trader-I have some money longer term in stocks, but just spare a little for futures. Intra-day trading. I am trading reasonably well, getting many profits, but am hopeless with stops and get the regular large loss that limits my success. I'm trying to eliminate this pattern...