In this journal, I will be chronicling all of my trades across different markets. I am certain it will be more inviting for me to keep up on since they will all be in this one thread. Feel free to comment . Thanks-
Over my career , I have always traded by looking for divergences and then attempting to get in a trade on a reversal and subsequently following the new trend. As I have aged, I no longer feel the desire to outsmart the market and be right about reversals. I have decided a good way to take pressure off of myself is to become a total trend follower. (I was basically doing this already with the added feature of catching reversals to help the return, so I will be dropping the reversal spotting unless unbelievably obvious). I am now all about enjoying life and taking it a little easier, thus I will now forego the usual searching for reversal and I will simply trend follow. --Mind you, this is my own brand of trend following where I will be using MY grail method and yes, still divergences in the direction of the trend on pullbacks/bounces. I have my own way of defining longer term trends and all trades will be made in the direction of the longer term trend as I perceive it, even if I should venture out intraday, which would most likely be in ES or the currencies only. I look forward to communicating with you in the near future.
I will also continue to write run-on sentences as I please--
My stop is above 1554.25 As far as Yen Long goes, we may be in for a reversal to the long side. However, I will not play the long side until the long term trend reverses convincingly to the upside.
I would mention as well though, that right here right now is not a good place to short the Yen, even though the long term trend is still down.
Long Oct Sugar has come back to be a couple of ticks in the black now
Long Sep Euro FX, Long Pound, Long Aussie have been adding to gains
Short Sep ES has dropped a few handles today, but I will be looking to cover and go long at some point. Long term trend is still up. ( I am still short however from 1544 at the moment )
Long Auggie Heating Oil is still holding up near 2.10. This has treaded water for a couple of days and I will monitor fairly closely. This trade has done well so far as it is up currently over 3000 per contract
What I intend to do here with this journal is to chronicle large winners and smaller losers. The following is an update on what I believe is the current longer term trend direction of the markets that I am in interested in
(Currencies are all paired with USD)
10 yr notes--Down
ES--UP
NQ--UP
Euro FX--UP
Pound--UP
Swiss Franc--UP
Canadian Dollar--UP
Aussie Dollar--UP
New Zealand Dollar--UP
Japanese Yen--Down
Sugar--UP
Cotton-UP
Coffee--Down
OJ--Down
Cocoa--UP
Nat Gas--Down
Crude Oil--UP
Heating Oil--UP
Rbob Gas--UP
Soybeans --UP
Corn--Down
Wheat--UP
Oats--UP
Note--These are what I consider to be the longer term trends and will not necessarily mean that I am buying or selling at the present time. It does however, mean that I am looking for entries into trades in that direction and only that direction.