The secret that all the Guru's are desperate to keep hiden.

Quote from Brandonf:

I would concede to you that I'm not just posting here to post, and it's not just because I'm an attention whore (but I am) either. But, I'm not here to make money from traders. Right now I'm here becuz Im dying of thirst and trying to distract myself :)


PS. Has anyone ever made it into the OR "on time". Jeez, no food or water since 10pm last night, I was supposed to go in at around 10am but now they are saying not till about 3:30.

PPS. I've had several messages of support regarding today's surgery. Thank you. I'm still backed up replying to people from the post I made a week and a half ago which resulted in over 100 PMs and emails. Today's surgery is not a big deal at all. I'm in good shape health wise now, the remaining surgery is now just to "clean up" some of the crap in my leg, but it's nothing that is having a direct effect on my health at this point, it's mostly just cosmetic type stuff.
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Don't take it as I am trying to pick on a sick dude (but I am) :)

I have had some serious health problems myself and do realize that life loses MUCHO of it's quality when you are sick.

The only "problem" you need to solve is your health...good luck.
 
Quote from Fast_Trader:

Brandon, thanks for the post...ignore the idiots and move forward with the content!
Btw...anyone wanting to find Bradon's site; go to Google and search for "Brandon Fredrickson". Shouldn't be too difficult to find :D
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You'd think so..but I just looked on Google and the first 15 pages of results for Brandon Fredrickson are not sites that I have anything to do with right now. :)
 
Another example that I can suggest is to go through all your stocks at the end of the month and remove the ones you are losing money. Do it monthly and it will make a big difference in your trading.

Brandon, get well because I still have a lot to learn from your posts.
 
Brandon,

This is easily one of the best posts ever made on ET. Thanks from a fellow Iowan.

Data mining one's own trading is the smartest move a trader can make.

Regards,

John
 
Brandon,

A great post - thanks, and hope all is well.

In the interest of actually contributing something of use to this thread, I journal the following:
Time into the trade - i.e. 12:33:02
Time out of the trade
Order Type - for both entry and exit
Order sizes
Execution - i.e. BATS, Arca, Inet, etc
Reason for entry
Reason for exit
Follow-up commentary - what I did right/wrong/missed/saw - yes, hindsight is 20/20, but I think the analysis worth it

My .02 for what it's worth...
 
Don't mean to hijack Brandon's thread, I'm eagerly awaiting his responses. Here are a few metrics I collect in my journal --

Duration of the trade in bars
% of the move captured
type of exit, stop used if any

And for EOD --
# of trades + and - ( reliability )
avg profit of each ( expectation )
# of $x trades made and missed
one thing I did right / one thing I did wrong
 
Brandon:
I agree on your advice and keeping a journal is important. Also, holding good trades and reducing frequency are imporant and often hard to implement.
 
I pray your surgery went well and that you take time to recuperate fully. Am looking forward to see how you keep a trade journal - thanks
 
Quote from MGJ:

The secret that all the Guru's are desperate to keep hiden

Have a look at an English grammar book and note the difference between possessives and plurals.

Also note the spelling of "hidden" with six letters.
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You are really a DOUCHE!

Brandon has given back plenty to this community, which is more that can be said for a human spellchecking cunt.

I hope you are in good health Brandon.

pollo
 
Success isn't finding how to do it right. When your trading right you make money. Simple. Success is about finding and understanding what your doing wrong. Once you know what your doing wrong you can figure out how to do it right.

Not as easy as it sounds.

It will be easier if your very tough on yourself.
 
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