2013 [P&L journal]

first mental hurdle in trading is getting you out of your way,all the different yous are a big backpack,extra weight,an anchor,you want to be as invisible to yourself as you are to the market





only thing you should say to yourself is right or wrong,no pat on the back no had to walk the dog, no rationalizations,just like your p/l,right or wrong streamline your mind,the only massage your going to get is your acct going up,stop with the excuses to yourself, those excuses can keep you in a bad trade, well maybe it'll do this instead of what it's actually doing in front of your eyes , don't trade inside the box,your head, trade outside, have to turn me i myself off and just let the market take over,join it,add in some star wars quote here ................... there is no way 16pts is part of your loss rules,so if you stop bs'ing yourself,maybe you can actually stick to them and survive,until then paper trade,your driving down the street without brakes or steering wheel
 
Not to sound aggressive but your equity graph looks random (almost as bad as mine for this year). One can always reason that the modifications done would affect future results favorably but then again, the modifications never really end.
 
Sorry, I must not be typing clearly...

Ammo / stock ; I did not lose 16 points yesterday... I missed out on a trade that ran for 16 points because I was not at my laptop. Missed trades are the single biggest reason preventing me from knocking it out of the park.

Mon +1800

Tue -500

Wed -700

d08 ; My equity curve has been going up since the beginning of this year, just not 'significantly' yet. I view the main reasons as lack of trading skill, trade selectivity & part time trading.
 

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You're right, it has been going up but you also have to consider the volatility/amplitude. 2 or 3 down legs in a row would wipe the account. Consider the profits always in the context of the drawdown.
 
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You're right, it has been going up but you also have to consider the volatility/amplitude. 2 or 3 down legs in a row would wipe the account. Consider the profits always in the context of the drawdown.
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Not tracking... if my risk is always 3 points... please explain how I would wipe out with 2-3 down legs?

When volatility got crazy yesterday there were 2 trades I didn't take because they were over 3 points risk.
 
-1000 today

no point in scaling up .. again easy to see in hindsight how to have made money today

@ 18,000k (starting balance for the year + 10k deposit)

probably not going to post for a while
 
So, took last month off just to watch and let the psychological damage of being a break even trader pass.

I also wanted to make a switch to the RLM at the indirect recommendation of dbpheonix. I needed to make sure that the same principles that I applied to ES would apply to RLM, and they do as admittedly I believe in simple mechanics.

Reason number 2 is the relative volatility is always in favor of NQ/RLM.

I'll post my monthly results because that's more significant than days/weeks, but of 3 recent trading days (including today), it was about -100, -200, +700.
 
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