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Just read vulture's post about options expiration Friday. Forgot about that completely - should I wait till Monday?

CaroKann, thankfully I'm trading 1 contract tomorrow but your point will be considered for my exit strategy refinement.

Thanks spectre. 1R is my comfort-level starting point to be gradually increased with time - unless of course p is attractively large.

Following is the first draft of a bare bones trading plan for the ES. It is my intention to resume trading 1 ES contract tomorrow. I appreciate the encouragement and advice I have received both openly and in private. Instrument to be traded E-mini S&P 500 (ES) Hardware Dual monitor...

My thoughts are with you guys .... hope you're all OK.

Hi rs7, it's Eva. Mr Sub's busy writing his trading plan in the infirmary. Bubba's in solitary for 5 days during which time Subman has assured me the cardboard head will be ready - it's just lacking hair but Sub's in the shower block detail tomorrow. I guess you know by now why I'm really...

CaroKann, you make good points as usual. My confidence took a hit but it is far from shattered. As for getting back in tomorrow, look at your signature :D

Nice comprehensive analysis. jperl referred to 200 coin tosses (not 100) however, so getting 80 heads is within 3 standard deviations and is therefore not that unlikely. Edit: In fact approximating the normal distribution, we get the probability of 80 heads or less in 200 coin tosses to be...

Thanks Publias, bronks, KB96 and tampa for the encouragement, offers of help, housing and advice. All joking aside, I will have to sit down and formulate a trading plan which I find the hardest thing to do. Once it's in writing, I usually stick to it, but I'm a great procrastinator. tampa, my...

Dark in 'ere, so I'll be brief. Borrowed a match from Bubba, my cellmate 'cause it's lights out. I'm in real deep shit - never told you guys before, but I've been trading Bubba's money and as you all know I had a 5-digit down day today, which means tomorrow's gonna be a 5-digit up day, if you...

No trading plan, no excuses. Make up your own story, it'll probably be close to what happened. I am taking a break to write a trading plan I can accept, and to digest all I have learnt from my brief foray into the e-minis. I like the accountability aspect of posting my trades, but this time...

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It was very important to get the week off to a good start, especially considering the still fresh memories of last Monday. I therefore was glad to be able to stop after 20 minutes of scalping. +3.75 pts / 10 RT / 5 ct lots (It'll be Publias notation from now on) PS. I'm pleased to announce...

© Reuters, August 11, 2002. Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger and Roberto Benigni were some of the special guests flown in for the speedily arranged and highly secretive sulha (Arab ceremony of reconciliation) between tampa and rs7.

I could feel the princess watching over me as I (whoops.... wrong journal :D). Nothing like a short morning burst to finish off a poorly starting week on a mildly optimistic note. Meeting up with Borsellino later on for drinks (Gianluca Borsellino, my good friend and pizzeria owner from Middle...

Publias, I copied the style from bronks and it is also conveniently available from my software. I generally trade a uniform contract size each day which is readily seen in the attachment, so it is fairly easy to transform the figures into whatever format one wishes. I am, however, open to...

bronks, get a grip on yourself, lad. You call my wimpy, hit-and-run, point-per-round-trip, two-trade excuse for a day "excellent trading"? At 1.167 points per RT (cf. my 1.0 point) you were the one doing the excellent trading. Have you forgotten my Black Monday? Your recent consistency has been...

I was in and out this morning so I couldn't devote my full attention to trading. Even though I eventually was free at 12:30, I felt a little disoriented having missed a lot of the action and have reluctantly decided to quit for the day. +10.0 pts / 10 RT PS. Please note that for some...

(3 guesses what inandlong does between trades :p)

All the best, Tony.