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Thursday: First time trading at home in 3 weeks. Gold went way up before I started trading, but I got in a few good shorts. Not too bad, but still nervously exiting trades way prematurely. Almost embarrassing as I keep doing it over and over. Hopefully tomorrow I can hold out a bit longer...

Wednesday: I've been doing 3 weeks of on-and-off trading because I've been away, but tomorrow I will be back on the daily routine once again, and hopefully doing some good trading. Today was a mostly sideways day in gold, but it's continuing the downtrend it started mid-march. I'm beginning...

I don't have the patience for paper-trading. I feel like I learn the most when I trade with my money.

Friday: Been on vacation again, trading on and off. Had a real bad day last week and lost 800, but gained a bit back this week. I think I can be profitable if I could eliminate the ridiculous undisciplined losses I incur, usually after a few days of wins. The account is at 1,584.

Rtrader2525: I trade regular gold, gcm8. I have more money in the account than I've posted, but this is all I'm willing to risk for this first attempt at daytrading. Thursday: Horribly horrible trading today. Early on I meant to close out of a position fast, it was going against me...

Wednesday: No trading Monday or Tuesday. Today was another one of those days where the majority of the move in gold was overnight, the price fell to 900 but moved up for the rest of the day. Pretty choppy overall, did 10 trades and made $225. Didn't trade my plan today, did more of a...

Friday: Traded 10 times in gold today. Missed the last bit of the move down as I woke up at 8:30. I'm going to be setting alerts to wake me up if moves like today happen over night again. And they seem to usually happen overnight. Was able to grind out +275, 10 trades, 6 winners. Account...

ammo: thx, yes misery loves company Thursday: Did 6 trades in gold, 2 in the YM. Wasn't a good day to trade today, choppy markets. I almost caught some good trends, but got scared way too fast and got out of them with tiny profits. Later on took a couple losses, and finally held onto a YM...

Wednesday: Took 3 days off since my last huge win day, and still couldn't avoid a large drawdown. I don't know why, but I can't seem to keep my wins at all. 3 trades in the YM today, -550. Acct at 1,745.

Monday: Didn't trade today, gold wasn't moving very well, and there looks like alot of reports coming out later this week, so I'm not sure if tomorrow will be any better.

HolyGrail: Thanks. I've been doing 1 lots only for a while now. The large losses I took were during 2 weeks... before I knew the value of taking a break! mgabriel01: I used to do up to 30+ trades a day. Now that my account is so low, I had to stop overtrading. Generally trying to keep the...

Starting: $10,000 Week1: 9,074 Week2: 10,016 Week3: 9,215 Week4: 8,965 Week5: 6,829 Week6: 2,399 Week7: 2,049 Week8: 1,889 Week9 (current): 2,297 Friday: Didn't trade today, like I planned. Gold was choppy and didn't look tradable anyways. Paper traded the YM, held onto a short...

Thursday: Revamped my system this week and the system is doing well, it's just taking me a while to gain confidence in the signals. Today, did 5 trades with 5 winners in gold. I cut each profit short, unfortunately, but the entries are pretty good. Up 612.50 today, best day in a long time...

Tuesday: Haven't been getting much sleep these past few days, so I happen to wake up at around 11PM today and saw I missed most of the move in gold, which was trending UP. I figured it had topped out, and did two very stupid shorts that brought me in the red for 231.50. Fustrated I saw gold...

Monday 13 trades in gcm8 -321.50 Balance: $1,681 Account is drifting lower again. Today I got a bit fustrated and churned the account a little bit, but kept it partially under control.

acct: $2,002 +113.50 3 trades today, 3 winners in gold. I find decent entry points but I cut them way too short. I'm attaching a chart of my trades today. Any criticism or comments appreciated. Red arrow = entry Black = closing

Starting:10,000 Week1: 9,074 Week2: 10,016 Week3: 9,215 Week4: 8,965 Week5: 6,829 Week6: 2399 Week7: 2049 Week8 (current): 1889 This week: Officially 2 months done now, learned alot these past 2 months. Looked like cake walk when I was paper-trading this thing back a few months ago...

Indexscalper: Thanks, i read your journal. Tough task, i started with substianially more capital, but much less experience. But experience is what matters. i wish you luck. Today's balance: 1,880 4 gold, 2 YM. -65 Today I traded with an extremely clear head. Missed the timing of gold...

No, the margins are higher, 5400 for gold. I have more in the account but this is what I'm risking for now. Basically a stopping point for me if this amount reaches zero.

Getting desperate now. I'm going to take on a completely new system I've been watching for a while now tomorrow. I need to change something fast about my trading habits.