Trader P/L 2014
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+223 net
It ended up being a great day, but I'm still feeling a bit disgruntled. Fortunately, I stuck with my main plan and had a good day despite five losing trades and only one winning trade. I was able to add to a winner and ride it out to my target. I've been tweaked the last few days because I got some pressure from my firm to trade more volume. They were cool about it, but asked me to try to get my shares up. This got in my head and caused me to go back to some of those lame trades I planned on eliminating this month. The past few days I have shot off so many lame trades. I need to stop doing that. I will stop doing that. What I need to do is to just use it as motivation to use more shares on my in plan trades and add to them more. That was the plan for the month anyways. Be more aggressive with adding.
If I hadn't wasted money on some lame trades today I would have been much more aggressive with adding to my winner. I really should have made a lot more, but I was distracted by and pissed with my out of plan trades.
I'm going to slightly bump up my max loss per day from $100 to $125 to give myself a little room on position sizing.
Oh - and it looks like I accidentally typed "+97 net" for yesterday instead of "-97 net". The blotter shows the loss, though.
It ended up being a great day, but I'm still feeling a bit disgruntled. Fortunately, I stuck with my main plan and had a good day despite five losing trades and only one winning trade. I was able to add to a winner and ride it out to my target. I've been tweaked the last few days because I got some pressure from my firm to trade more volume. They were cool about it, but asked me to try to get my shares up. This got in my head and caused me to go back to some of those lame trades I planned on eliminating this month. The past few days I have shot off so many lame trades. I need to stop doing that. I will stop doing that. What I need to do is to just use it as motivation to use more shares on my in plan trades and add to them more. That was the plan for the month anyways. Be more aggressive with adding.
If I hadn't wasted money on some lame trades today I would have been much more aggressive with adding to my winner. I really should have made a lot more, but I was distracted by and pissed with my out of plan trades.
I'm going to slightly bump up my max loss per day from $100 to $125 to give myself a little room on position sizing.
Oh - and it looks like I accidentally typed "+97 net" for yesterday instead of "-97 net". The blotter shows the loss, though.
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SDS hurt again today, finally looked at the last few days of action and decided to chuck it in favor of more hedging in the front of the VIX curve, as it certainly qualifies as a breakout.
I'm sure I'll regret it. Oh well.
Mildly in the black for the year as of today. If the debt ceiling bill passes tonight, that should keep.
SDS hurt again today, finally looked at the last few days of action and decided to chuck it in favor of more hedging in the front of the VIX curve, as it certainly qualifies as a breakout.
I'm sure I'll regret it. Oh well.
Mildly in the black for the year as of today. If the debt ceiling bill passes tonight, that should keep.
