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2 trades today. Trade 1 (see attached chart). I bought very low, aiming for a pop at the 104.50 level. Market rallied then came back down. I had trailed my stop to entry and got out at scratch. Trade 2, when it broke 104.50 (eventually), I worked an order to buy the dip...

One trade yesterday, saw a bearish triangle and went with the break, it turned and stopped me out for $920. It then sold off. Beginning to conclude that on future Combines I should trade the mini contract and run less risk. $20 a tick is to heavy given my longer term trading style.

ok so here it is after day 8. Sorry I haven't been putting up screenshots the last 3 days, I have been working from a different PC. I've made a little profit this week, but nothing remarkable. My stats have improved because I got short the crude on Monday and held it nearly 4 hours, which...

Hi I am already doing this

Interesting concept, I think a lot of the problems I have here derive from trading on too long a time frame and from trading overly big size. My time in a winner is much much longer than my time in a loser (88 mins avg versus 32 mins avg as of yesterday) so I don't think running winners is the...

Trade 2 Short at 106.26 stop 106.51 target 105.76, it then did this (see cicled on attached chart). Stopped out for a 25 tick loss of $500.

14 August Trade 1 The market was acting as if the London session support around 106.30 (an important pivot the last few days) had become resistance so I went short at 106.09 stop 106.34 targeting 105.59. It snapped back for a loss of $480 (I got filled at 106.33).

1. you're right about this, I think I need to reduce size or trade something less volatile 2. this happens a lot of times, I'm ok with this, I tend not to do more than 2 trades per day 3. yes again, need to trade less size 4. I'm working on trading a shorter time frame to make the stops tighter

Combine performance so far

When the market made a lower high around 106.70, then took out the previous low around 106.00, it was now making lower highs and lower lows. So the trend has changed and I want to be shorting rallies. I shorted 106.05 (close to the previous low ie support-turned resistance). Stop at 106.25...

Day 4 (13 August) 1 winner, 1 loser today. Initially, I was bullish, intending to buy dips. I did so (see JPEG), getting long at 106.47 with a stop at 106.17 looking for a retest of the highs at 107.07. The market stalled at 106.60 and I got stopped for a $560 loss (got filled at 106.19...

Day 3 (12 August) It looked to be breaking down against 106.25, so I went short at 105.22, stop 105.68, target 104.30 (back to the old lows of last week). This was a very bad call and I got taken out for a $920 loss

Day 2 (9 August) On this day I did 1 trade, losing $700 (35 ticks). I got taken out of the trade very quickly (a mere 13 minutes). This is a hateful trade because I was right about the overall trend, but it just stopped me out before staging a massive rally. My bias was to get long...

End of day 1

Trade 3 Again, given the price action (slow and stodgy when rallying, sharp and violent when selling off), I was happy to sell rallies. The candle highlighted in the JPEG was very convincing so I went short at 104.81, with a stop at 105.36, targeting 103.71. It did nothing until the pit close...

Trade 2 As you can see from the attached chart, this is a very sweet sell the rallies. Same strategy as above, I sold 105.27, stop at 105.54 (above the swing high). Target was 104.73 (again double the stop loss). The market sold off very sharply and I hit my target, for $1080 profit.

Sorry for the delay, I was very busy. Ok so here is day 1 (August 7) In summary 3 trades All winners Pnl $2510 Trade 1 Short at 105.10 with stop at 105.44 (above the swing high)target 104.42. My target is always simply double my stop. See chart. My rationale was that the...

thanks and good trading!

Hello, This is a journal I am doing for a 10 day Combine with Topsteptrader. I passed the Combine in May/June (see attached pic) but failed at the live trader preparation stage. TST refunded my previous Combine deposit and I took 2 weeks out to paper trade and make a few tweaks to my...