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-100.

-375. Gave up small profit from this morning. Overtraded and got chewed up in the chop.

ES: 9 winners, 5 losers, 1 scratch. YM: 4 winners, 1 loser Net: +305

Bad day -641.

+209, slow day.

+489 net. Traded ES and YM.

Congratulations LL! I've been following your journal with interest after I decided to dump the Russell (ER2) from my trading products list. I was trying to find a suitable replacement and it came down to deciding between the YM and NQ. Since I primarily trade the ES the choice was pretty easy...

Good point Sicilian. It's the execution that needs fine tuning, the strategy is fine.

I'm sorry to disappoint all participants of this thread. After thorough analysis of all my trading activity since I started this journal, I decided to take a break for a few days to fine tune my strategy. I feel I'm going around in circles. There appears to be no consistency in my trading -...

Took some stops early in the morning and the result was not good (down over 200). Then I stepped back, relaxed and decided to take only the setups with profit targets of 2 points minimum. I was able to come back to almost break even. Products traded: ES, ER2 Contracts: 28 Opening balance...

Another bad day. My setups worked without a glitch but I failed to execute them according to my plan. Today should have been a positive day. Products traded: ES, ER2 Contracts: 43 Opening balance: 1228 Closing balance: 1025 Net P/L: -203 Discipline: 2

Very short term.

Thanks for a suggestion austinp. I used to trade primarily ER2 and I'm aware of the liquidity issues associated with it. I stated earlier that I will not be trading trading it anymore. Well, even though I did a few trades on it today (all winners btw), the truth is that over 90% of my activity...

Gurucandidate, you're one of the very few posters on this thread that understand what's involved in VST trading and what I'm trying to accomplish.

Great post eminimouse! And thanks for the suggestions! I'm currently working on exporting the trades from my platform to excel to be able to objectively evaluate my strategy.

From last night (7 trades after hours) till 11 am today. Started 7:30 am this morning.

That's correct.

Made some mistakes today and it's reflected in my P/L which should have been much higher. I "experimented" during last night's session and the outcome was not good (-200). This morning I traded much better but missed 2 setups by a tick and cut one of my big winners short. Added new rule: No...

Nothing seemed to work today, both premarket and after the open. I'm booking a small loss rather than making it worse. Product traded: ES Contracts: 19 Opening balance: 1261 Closing balance: 1204 Net P/L: -56 Discipline: 5

Positive day even though my setups didn't work out as expected. My main objective is staying in the game, so I'm booking a small gain rather than turning it into a loss. Product traded: ES Contracts: 25 Opening balance: 1139 Closing balance: 1261 Net P/L: 122 Discipline: 5