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Reckon they will take it back over 1800 today.

Summary Week Ended Friday 22nd November 2013 15 stock trades: 3 AAL + 28.47 BPS 12 BLT + 88.54 BPS Stocks net + 117.01 BPS 4 Index Trades: 4 FTSE + 16.10 BPS Net all trades + 133.11 BPS Return on account for the week 2.66% Long and short trades, intraday and...

I would not want to bet against the posibility of the ES making a new all time high shortly.

Nice trade. There is a textbook hammer on the 5 min chart at around 0830 GMT.

Real money on the line ...?

ECB talking about reducing rate further.

This thread is under the subheading 'Trading for a Living / Journals'. I take this to mean journals of real traders, trading real accounts with real money. Can't see the point of posting a paper trading journal here.

Maybe he just buys at the bid & sells at the ask all day.

Another week, another ES high ....? 1797 high so far today, Dax is breaking all time highs again....

One thing I do (apart from scaling in/out) is use pretty big stops. I have found to my cost that tight stops are just another way of giving money away in the market. I didn't get stopped out for a loss once this week. Even on losing trades, I closed because I thought the market was about...

Summary Week Ended Friday 15th November 2013 19 stock trades: 9 AAL - 156.83 BPS 1 BSY + 84.13 BPS 4 BLT + 48.07 BPS 1 CNA + 50.88 BPS 4 STAN + 130.67 BPS Stocks net + 156.92 BPS 11 Index Trades: 11 FTSE + 50.34 BPS Net all trades + 207.25 BPS Long and...

High so far 1791.75

Looks to me like your stops are WAY too tight. Also breakouts exist to be faded.

"last trade of the day was a particular sickener" I don't understand your chart, that looks like a pretty nice profit to me....?

A wise man once said, be a trader, don't try to be an economist...

Looks like a new all time high here 1785.

"You're including all those who held on while the DAX dropped 2500pts two years ago, right?" I don't quite follow you. I was just asking a genuine question, have many regular short term traders outperformed the index during its huge rally. I don't trade the Dax these days, too stressful...

Just finished reading the whole thread, what a ride. Thanks for posting. You used to post the daily, weekly and monthly P&L in $, what made you stop ? Do you benchmark your results against an index at all ?

The long term vs short term thing is interesting. Look at the Dax, it's making all time highs at the moment, but how many traders rode it all the way up from 4000 in early 2009 ....? And did many day traders in the Dax outperform the longer term rally in terms of points ?