Saving charts
- Thread starter Sarasota
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Part of daily trade review, though I confess that I'll sometimes let a day or two go by before getting caught up completely on all charts.
Putting the "library" together has helped in a number of ways, not least in the development of new, complementary set-ups based upon what had been some consistently losing habits.
One of my favorite exercises is paging through the assembled trades to reinforce certain lessons and improve visualization.
I use ScreenPrint for the gifs, and use global variables for organizing them.
Putting the "library" together has helped in a number of ways, not least in the development of new, complementary set-ups based upon what had been some consistently losing habits.
One of my favorite exercises is paging through the assembled trades to reinforce certain lessons and improve visualization.
I use ScreenPrint for the gifs, and use global variables for organizing them.
Old term - not sure if it's still "current," or even, come to think of it, if it's correct! I just remembered that it can mean something different for certain kinds of programming.
In this case, all it means is that, while I organize the gifs in separate directories initially by month, I name each trade in a way that makes searching for specific types easier.
The kinds of trades I do fall into a handful of main types: The first two letters of the file name describe which type. Next comes whether the trade was short or long, then whether it was a win, a loss, or a scratch, then the date by mmddyy format, then the particular tradable and then an optional character for additional trades of the same type on the same tradable on the same day:
bo_l=083002ZRAN would be a breakout trade (bo) from the long side (l) resulting in a scratch (=) today (08-30-02) in ZRAN. The idea, if you're not familiar with the technique, is so that if, say, I wanted to look at all losing long breakout trades from August I could search for "bo_l-08" or whatever
The trade review files will typically look something like what I've included below, and may sometimes include commentary or other details. The color-coded "paintbars" on the NDX chart relate to a TRIN-like indicator that I use. Most of the other indications have to do with critical levels like high of day, previous day's high, etc.
I try at a minimum to include everything that was decisive, along with time frame and key entries/exits. Sometimes I'll work in tick charts or dailies or 30-min charts. I only occasionaly try to save "real-time" screen views, but it might make sense to do some more of that (including l2 and T&S).
In this case, all it means is that, while I organize the gifs in separate directories initially by month, I name each trade in a way that makes searching for specific types easier.
The kinds of trades I do fall into a handful of main types: The first two letters of the file name describe which type. Next comes whether the trade was short or long, then whether it was a win, a loss, or a scratch, then the date by mmddyy format, then the particular tradable and then an optional character for additional trades of the same type on the same tradable on the same day:
bo_l=083002ZRAN would be a breakout trade (bo) from the long side (l) resulting in a scratch (=) today (08-30-02) in ZRAN. The idea, if you're not familiar with the technique, is so that if, say, I wanted to look at all losing long breakout trades from August I could search for "bo_l-08" or whatever
The trade review files will typically look something like what I've included below, and may sometimes include commentary or other details. The color-coded "paintbars" on the NDX chart relate to a TRIN-like indicator that I use. Most of the other indications have to do with critical levels like high of day, previous day's high, etc.
I try at a minimum to include everything that was decisive, along with time frame and key entries/exits. Sometimes I'll work in tick charts or dailies or 30-min charts. I only occasionaly try to save "real-time" screen views, but it might make sense to do some more of that (including l2 and T&S).
When I used to swingtrade, once a week I would do a screen capture of the charts after the trades were closed and put annotations as to the set up and reasons for exit. I saved them all in one folder and had a column in my spreadsheet where I would put a hyperlink to the chart for that symbol, so I could go to it in one click just like a web page. It was a quick and easy way to review things.
I print my trade blotter and the charts from several time frames for the day. With q charts I can just print the chart without screen capure software. Then I draw the entry/exit points with a connecting line for each trade ( almost never do more than10)on all the time frames. Looking at this reality slowed me waaaay down ,taking me out of the hypertrading lane. If I don't do it every day old habits, trying to outsmart the market, start to creep back in.