Trader P/L 2009
- Thread starter Red_Ink_inc
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Quote from Red_Ink_inc:
Can't seem to log in now that I am home, so no blotter. Man what a day. Yes Hermit I do need my shoes shined, but I warn you they're covered in vomit today. FITB made me it's bitch multiple times in both directions on big size. Twice had big pending profits but was too damn daft to take the dough.
-43K.
Have a good weekend guys and gals.
Glad to see that you are human but also glad to say you always recover from the hard hits and seem to hit back even harder.
Godspeed.
Nexen
-$ 100.00..................................Glad this week is over ! Have a great weekend everybody !
unlike the paper trading no load mutual fund dollar cost averaging world that our mods apparently live in, tonight can't be summed up by, 'golly gee, that wasn't a walk thru the meadow, i think i need a nice tall glass of milk'. i'll do my best.
i traded REALLY well and had a very good feel for things the entire session. was up $2,400 and about to call it a night. decided to do that last trade to get over my old daily target of 2500. stopped out. i then reverted to my favourite method of self destruction: identifying a clearly ballistic trend and then fading it to see how fast a can get stopped out- over and over. to -200 in an intercoursing heartbeat- idiot. back to +1200 and now actually in a good trade. i changed my stop from 2 to 1 contract- OR SO I THOUGHT. the '2' stayed- yep, stop was 21 intercoursing contracts. and was hit in a spike down immediately- took me like 10 seconds to comprehend what i was looking at on my DOM. this is the HSI- 19 contracts is ~$1300 every 10 points and it was moving 100 points/minute at the time. intercourse me. boom- down almost $5m. in 10 minutes from +2400 to -5000. good guess.... i kinda snapped.
i took on WAAAAAAYYYYYY too much size (traded 4-8 contracts). aside from that, i somehow traded pretty well and, in 15 minutes, got back almost 5m of the 7m (not exactly proud, as sizing up after a loss is violating rule #1). HK closed and, violating more rules, i turned to the DAX. immediately dropped $700 and was lucky to get it back; as i was trading like an intercoursing idiot. i'm so urinated and demoralized about the way i gave back a well earned 2400 in a few minutes- i'm in no frame of mind to be trading. hopefully i'll shut it down here.
why all the detail (aside from my need to vent).... because if there were ever a P&L blotter that didn't tell the tale, this is it:
i traded REALLY well and had a very good feel for things the entire session. was up $2,400 and about to call it a night. decided to do that last trade to get over my old daily target of 2500. stopped out. i then reverted to my favourite method of self destruction: identifying a clearly ballistic trend and then fading it to see how fast a can get stopped out- over and over. to -200 in an intercoursing heartbeat- idiot. back to +1200 and now actually in a good trade. i changed my stop from 2 to 1 contract- OR SO I THOUGHT. the '2' stayed- yep, stop was 21 intercoursing contracts. and was hit in a spike down immediately- took me like 10 seconds to comprehend what i was looking at on my DOM. this is the HSI- 19 contracts is ~$1300 every 10 points and it was moving 100 points/minute at the time. intercourse me. boom- down almost $5m. in 10 minutes from +2400 to -5000. good guess.... i kinda snapped.
i took on WAAAAAAYYYYYY too much size (traded 4-8 contracts). aside from that, i somehow traded pretty well and, in 15 minutes, got back almost 5m of the 7m (not exactly proud, as sizing up after a loss is violating rule #1). HK closed and, violating more rules, i turned to the DAX. immediately dropped $700 and was lucky to get it back; as i was trading like an intercoursing idiot. i'm so urinated and demoralized about the way i gave back a well earned 2400 in a few minutes- i'm in no frame of mind to be trading. hopefully i'll shut it down here.
why all the detail (aside from my need to vent).... because if there were ever a P&L blotter that didn't tell the tale, this is it:
Sympathies. I only faded it twice before my unselfdestruct button cut in and smacked me off my trading chair.
Irritated the hell out of me though.
Irritated the hell out of me though.
Gang, I am sure you will be kicking it tomorrow. whole week in front of us.
My day was almost as exciting well maybe not...
no trades today (first time this year and probably over six months)