Passage to $1 Million

Was following you on twitter. I don't take your trades, but instead look for the direction of your calls which are useful to me since I seem to have a hard time determining market trend especially today which seems pretty choppy, and then I use my own system to take trades. It looked like Friday you were right in predicting long and today for your last trade, you were right in predicting market is short.

It looked like from what I saw on Friday, you made money, but you are reporting some losses from Friday or is that for today? Anyway congrats on the guts to post live here. I just took a 1 point short profit but my stop was 2 points since I planned to added 1 contract to short in case I was incorrect on my entry, but I only took .25 heat on the trade. I could have gotten 1.5 points, and maybe I should have used that as a target if my 2nd contract did not fill since my risk vs reward was not good for this trade.

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Weekly Summary for 06/21/2010 thru 06/25/2010

The trades produced 39.75 points, trading 2 contracts. This is 19.875 points/contract.



to follow the trades real time throughout the day:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SmilesTraders/130790796936898#!/pages/SmilesTraders/130790796936898

or

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Summary for Monday 06/28/2010:

L @ 1069.50 s/o @ entry (moved stop to entry, 1 ticked it, and then took off)
S @ 1077.25 1st target 1073.50 +3.75 exited 2nd @ 1073.50 +3.75
L @ 1073.50 s/o @ 1072 -1.5/contract
S @ 1072 exit both @ 1071.50 for +.5/contract
L@ 1072.75 exit both @ 1074 for +1.25/contract

Ending the day @ 2:00 PM CST with +8 points trading 2 contracts (+4 points/contract). Other than the 1072 S, the trades experienced very little heat.

to follow the trades real time throughout the day:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Smile...30790796936898#!/pages/SmilesTraders/130790796936898 or http://twitter.com/smilestraders

A spreadsheet containing all the trades can also be found at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtU-qjcyS1HcdGhyY3h0MGZSMm03UzhjcU1RbXU3eXc&hl=en#gid=0
 
Quote from oraclewizard77:

Was following you on twitter. I don't take your trades, but instead look for the direction of your calls which are useful to me since I seem to have a hard time determining market trend especially today which seems pretty choppy, and then I use my own system to take trades. It looked like Friday you were right in predicting long and today for your last trade, you were right in predicting market is short.

It looked like from what I saw on Friday, you made money, but you are reporting some losses from Friday or is that for today? Anyway congrats on the guts to post live here. I just took a 1 point short profit but my stop was 2 points since I planned to added 1 contract to short in case I was incorrect on my entry, but I only took .25 heat on the trade. I could have gotten 1.5 points, and maybe I should have used that as a target if my 2nd contract did not fill since my risk vs reward was not good for this trade.
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Oraclewizard,

Thanks for the support, and glad to hear that you are finding this trade journal useful. I did take a small loss on friday overall. The day started with 2 losing trades followed by a partial recovery.

Again, glad to hear you are enjoying the journal.

Smiles
 
Summary for Tues 06/29/2010

L 1064 s/o 1060 -2/contract
L 1056.25 exit @ 1058.50 +2.25/contract
L 1042 s/o 1040 -2/contract
L 1036.50 s/o 1031.50 -5/contract

Overall -15 points today trading 2 contracts, which is -7.5 points/contract.
 
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Summary for Tues 06/29/2010

L 1064 s/o 1060 -2/contract
L 1056.25 exit @ 1058.50 +2.25/contract
L 1042 s/o 1040 -2/contract
L 1036.50 s/o 1031.50 -5/contract

Overall -15 points today trading 2 contracts, which is -7.5 points/contract.
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Ouch, I hope this just the result of having a long bias today, and not your trading plan failing.
it looks like you gave the stop on the last trade to much room.
 
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L 1036.50 s/o 1031.50 -5/contract
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End of day I had a short signal here and thought for sure the market was too low to short and there'd be short covering that would trap me in the trade and stop me out, plus I almost never trade at the end of the day, so I shorted @ 1036.00 just for the hell of it in my sim account and covered @ 1031.25. Another $2300 toward the sim Ferrari :p
 
Quote from oraclewizard77:

Was following you on twitter. I don't take your trades, but instead look for the direction of your calls which are useful to me since I seem to have a hard time
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You are following on twitter and using the calls from someone who has 23 posts and started posting 8 days ago?
 
Quote from pcp198:

Ouch, I hope this just the result of having a long bias today, and not your trading plan failing.
it looks like you gave the stop on the last trade to much room.
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PCP198,

The account has been experiencing some challenges in the last few days. In order to maximize returns in the account, I made a small adjustment to exits today. This small change had a HUGE impact today and got the account over a hurdle today.

Thanks for the post,
Smiles
 
Quote from NoDoji:

End of day I had a short signal here and thought for sure the market was too low to short and there'd be short covering that would trap me in the trade and stop me out, plus I almost never trade at the end of the day, so I shorted @ 1036.00 just for the hell of it in my sim account and covered @ 1031.25. Another $2300 toward the sim Ferrari :p
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NoDoji,

A difficult part of trading is not having a bias, but instead allowing the market to tell you all that it has to offer. This was key for the account today. The market was telling me the exit strategy wasn't proper for the current market conditions. With a small adjustment today, the account really had a fantastic day!

How do those sim Ferrari's drive? :)

Smiles
 
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