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short cl at 4555, stop 4590, small position

the inventory numbers came out - the equivalent of non farm payrolls for CL lol edit: there was almost a 40x difference between the expected and actual numbers

short jap yen futures @ 8337..stop at 8400 purely technical position, dollar/yen is in a tight range, thought i would try and scalp it for 60 ticks.

was stopped out on the quarter of copper i has still had on at 2270

I had better contribute something to my thread....I haven't resumed watching al brooks's videos, been busy trading and making some dosh. I want to point out that if anyone is expecting a detailed report on what exactly i have learned from his course, they will be disappointed. Atm, i can say...

Ain't it great! :cool:

out of copper at 2232 and 2341, but still have quarter left of position left out of all cad dollar fut at 7451

No. however hong kong, s. korea and taiwan were closed .

Yellen is talking again this week as are some others of her crew

i have to keep googling these symbols to find out what the hell you are trading! :)

sold some canadian dollar futures at 7488, hard stop 7530. don't understand why they haven't sold off much in response to weaker commodity prices. maybe because oil is at or approaching support levels in its current range? anyway, small position, will add if crude breaks support.

Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market your game is to buy and hold until you believe that the bull market is near its end. To do this you must study general conditions and not tips or special factors...

yeah, it's a conundrum, ain't it? we all think we can trade all the little swings, make a net profit, feel good, and then comes along the realisation we just had to sell and hold for the big swing and make multiples of what was made trading the little swings.

thanks, i actually shorted a couple of contracts overnight at 2275 as well, but didn't post that before.

out of all russell at 1097.5. covered all losses plus from nikkei and crude oil trading.

Have to strongly disagree with this bit, surf. I have another 'business', unrelated to trading, which has a defined mathematical edge. No question about it. If i keep doing it, i make money over the long run. Yet in the interim period, I still have losses and drawdowns, which can be hefty, and...

added to russell at 1105

nb: the oil, nikkei and russell positions were all done in small size...the copper one is 2x bigger in size, but it was a mistake in that it should have been 5x the size

out of quarter of the copper position at 2238, stops to rest lowered to 2305

i would disagree that this is bad advice. I'm unsure of what regression therapy is, but certainly 'mental' therapy of some sort has been used by many notable traders to improve performance. PTJ used to have a full time psychologist in his firm (might still do) to help traders.