Trader P/L 2010

-$19 yesterday
+$13 today

Yesterday, I was a victim of yet another programming mistake. It's safe to say I do not have the kinks out of my software by a long shot. Certain hedges weren't firing, so I had to manually close positions at a loss.

Today, I was in the hole $200 because I got caught in a defacto long when GS news hit the wire. So I had to wait for the market to normalize and I had to manually fix the damage. When I got back to slightly over flat waiting for the ES to pullback, I shut the system down.
 
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Since I was asked not to make frivolous remarks in this thread without first providing a blotter, I have decided to post one for the first time.
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Schiz is not giving me proper credit for his gains today. He knew I'd be out of the office most of the day. He also knew that when I leave my trading platform the market makes a large move down. Instead of reminding me to short 10 lots CL before I left early this morning, he took it all for himself :p

Since this is a frivolous remark, I'm posting my sim blotter because when I got back about an hour before the close I (stupidly) decided the action was too iffy for me to trade live, so I visited my old trading roomies and hurled 10-30 lots ES and CL to let me know how much $$$ I could make if I had the kinda balls Schiz has :D

I'm guessing a lot of you guys made a good year's pay today. Have a great weekend everyone, and thanks for all the kind comments.
 

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good point. I will continue my P/L posting after the day closed, the P/L does not affect me, it helps me. if I see others catch a nice move, I will be jealous, it encourages me to work harder on my trading. I like P/L posting, I wish people need add %, so we can see the true performance of other peers. I gained 6.3% of my account value. based on today's crude move, I should gain at least 50% of my account value, that means my trading performance is very poor.




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Since I was asked not to make frivolous remarks in this thread without first providing a blotter, I have decided to post one for the first time. Now the frivolous comment.

Personally, I see no value in posting a mere number at the end of the day. Be that as it may, I equally don't understand how that can have such a toll on anyone's trading. You'll be trading regardless. If your sole concern is to only show your good side, well, that ain't trading.

I say trade for trading sake. Forget the rest. You are not here to flatter yourself nor anyone else. Post the damn blotter to remind yourself and the world that it was a day worth fighting and more will be in store for tomorrow.
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$312.58
account change 4.5%

initionally plan to short natural gas, just be terrified by those sudden bursts in the opening, turn into buying, sold it at the friday's resitance, sign, should follow my trading strategy(sell the pop in the downtrend).

went long crude on 82.6, toke out 0.35+ move, good. and plan to sell it on those pops around 83.2~83.3, do not have the nerve to sell, then saw the sudden thrust 0.6 point down, this maginitude move reminded me of last friday's market (news? pop out of mind?), not comfortable to trade it, better walk away a while, I do not want to be wipsawed by those sharp(big player, they try to dump, run small players into those corners, then dump)'s move.
 

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Not sure I want to post another blotter since I ain't sure what value there is to be had behind these numbers. But here it goes anyway for your viewing pleasure.

Just a quick recap. With CL, most of the windfall came from the overnight trades. In fact, I gave back 30-ticks in the RTH. With ES, I was lucky to catch the double dip at 81.50 and ride it up to 89.75.
 

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+$170.39

Was a very clean day, all software worked, my head was in the game, and no discretionary trades/fix-ups. However, I still will keep the size to 100-share blocks until I'm comfortable with the consistency. Nice to have some buffer for the loser days.
 
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