Recent content by kistrader

10/6/11 (Thursday) -7.5R Overtraded 10/7/11 (Friday) +2.5R 4 trades I had computer problems since Tuesday. I thought I fixed everything on Wednesday but when I turn it on Thursday morning, the system malfunctioned again. It took me 2 more hrs before I started trading. All these hassles...

Hey Shanb, thanks for the reply. I've been trading off and on for 10 years, most years are profitable but never the kind of success I wanted. And the last 2 years have been the worst. The recent volatility should've been great if you are on top of your game. The guys you mentioned, are they...

Hi Shanb, nice journal. I trade from home by myself. Just wondering how are the traders at your prop firm doing in this environment?

NFLX chart

10/3/11 +1.7R 10/4/11 +7.5R 10/5/11 BE Computer crashed in the middle of the day yesterday, it would’ve been a much bigger day otherwise. I saw the movement mostly right, the severity of the midday drop surprised me, but I knew there would be an EOD rally. The take away for...

BIDU chart

9/30/11 (Friday) 2 trades 2 winners +5R WYNN was once again down huge in the morning, I was expecting a bounce, but it kept making lower highs and seemed it’s about to breakdown below the morning low. I watched it break lower, but it immediately bounce back above the support making a...

NFLX chart

SINA chart

BIDU chart

9/29/11 (Thursday) 14 trades 6 winners 8 losers +7 R Daily score 5 I said I’ll take it easy yesterday, but today everything was in crash mode, SINA BIDU WYNN, NFLX. The movements were insane. I tried to trade with the trend but everything was down so much already, I was just seeing...

HMIN chart

9/27/11 (Tuesday) 5 trades 2 losers 1 winner 2 BE BE for the day Daily score: 7 Incorrect placement of stops led to 2 losers on NFLX. 9/28/11 9 trades 1 winner 8 losers -3.5 R Daily score 0 Today was a total disaster, pretty much violated all the rules. Started out by going...

MCP chart

NFLX chart