Trades:31
Winners: 12
Losers: 12
Break evens:7
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Total Gains: $1,196.00
Total Losses: $-937.50
Avg Gain: $99.67
Avg Loss: $-78.13
Biggest Gain: $440.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: $258.50
Commissions: $182.82
Short term Trading Net: $75.68
Month Net: $75.68
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
August 2014 results
Trades:36
Winners: 17
Losers: 12
Break evens:7
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Total Gains: $749.50
Total Losses: $-612.50
Avg Gain: $44.06
Avg Loss: $-51.04
Biggest Gain: $125.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: $136.50
Commissions: -$177.01
Short term Trading Net: -$40.51
Month Net: $-40.51
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I had one really bad week this month that I seemed to not be able to do anything right. A couple of really bad trading decisions and it was the worst week since January for me. Even thou I dug a big hole for myself, I nearly got back to even with a very solid last week of the month.
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I am thankful we are now back in September and the volume is much higher with most of the players back. I was on vacation the first week of September so I hope to be really refreshed for the month.
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One step at a time. Anyone who reads this blog and wants to learn from a great trade a very simple system - should go to eminimoney.com.
Winners: 17
Losers: 12
Break evens:7
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Total Gains: $749.50
Total Losses: $-612.50
Avg Gain: $44.06
Avg Loss: $-51.04
Biggest Gain: $125.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: $136.50
Commissions: -$177.01
Short term Trading Net: -$40.51
Month Net: $-40.51
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I had one really bad week this month that I seemed to not be able to do anything right. A couple of really bad trading decisions and it was the worst week since January for me. Even thou I dug a big hole for myself, I nearly got back to even with a very solid last week of the month.
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I am thankful we are now back in September and the volume is much higher with most of the players back. I was on vacation the first week of September so I hope to be really refreshed for the month.
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One step at a time. Anyone who reads this blog and wants to learn from a great trade a very simple system - should go to eminimoney.com.
Sunday, August 3, 2014
July 2014 Results
Trades:36
Winners: 16
Losers: 14
Break evens:6
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Total Gains: $726.50
Total Losses: $-900.00
Avg Gain: $45.41
Avg Loss: $-64.29
Biggest Gain: $100.00
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: -$173.50
Commissions: -$193.62
Short term Trading Net: -$367.12
Month Net: $-367.12
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This has not a good month at all for me but on the bright side even totally screwing it up I only lost $367. I chased the market a hand full of times that were trades no where near my trading plan. Just on those trades alone cost me about $800 turning a positive month into a losing month.
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This scenario happened too many times this month. I would miss two or three trades by a tick or two, then chase the market and lose big. Then I would skip the next trade (usually an easy one) and follow it up by ending my day missing another trade by a tick or two.
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I trades i log here fall into one of fours types - long term stock swings (months), short term stock trades (days), selling option premiums (either naked or on my long-term swings), and futures trading. Futures trading makes up 90% plus of my trades and of those trades - 95% of those are tradings the ES.
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The futures trading has a couple of simple rules using breaking levels, a couple of moving averages and stochastics. Nothing really insane. The basic idea is to be winners on 80% of the trades with an initial goal of 4 ticks and a stop loss of 8 ticks. The math works out make $100 on 5 trades.
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This month if I sat on my hands - I made 34 futures trades. 22 of them went to the first target of 4 ticks and 12 did not. Say if I trade 2 contracts on each trade - I would have made $2200 on the first target and lost $2400 on the ones that did not. I chased the market 5 times this month where if I waited to get in at the correct time for my rules - 4 out of the 5 would not have gotten stopped before hitting initial target. This changes the math to making $2600 on the first target and losing $1600 on the stop outs for a profit of $1000 before commissions. Not a bad month. The 26 verse 8 gets much closer the 80% win rate. A course you can sometimes get out of a losing trade before the 8 tick stop out and some of the winning trades you might cut short because of how much time it is taking.
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So August is another month and I already made the chasing mistake yesterday. My goal this month is to wait for my entry and see how much money I can make.
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I finally feel like I have a true trading plan to make money with - now I just have to get the mental game under control.
Winners: 16
Losers: 14
Break evens:6
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Total Gains: $726.50
Total Losses: $-900.00
Avg Gain: $45.41
Avg Loss: $-64.29
Biggest Gain: $100.00
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: -$173.50
Commissions: -$193.62
Short term Trading Net: -$367.12
Month Net: $-367.12
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This has not a good month at all for me but on the bright side even totally screwing it up I only lost $367. I chased the market a hand full of times that were trades no where near my trading plan. Just on those trades alone cost me about $800 turning a positive month into a losing month.
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This scenario happened too many times this month. I would miss two or three trades by a tick or two, then chase the market and lose big. Then I would skip the next trade (usually an easy one) and follow it up by ending my day missing another trade by a tick or two.
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I trades i log here fall into one of fours types - long term stock swings (months), short term stock trades (days), selling option premiums (either naked or on my long-term swings), and futures trading. Futures trading makes up 90% plus of my trades and of those trades - 95% of those are tradings the ES.
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The futures trading has a couple of simple rules using breaking levels, a couple of moving averages and stochastics. Nothing really insane. The basic idea is to be winners on 80% of the trades with an initial goal of 4 ticks and a stop loss of 8 ticks. The math works out make $100 on 5 trades.
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This month if I sat on my hands - I made 34 futures trades. 22 of them went to the first target of 4 ticks and 12 did not. Say if I trade 2 contracts on each trade - I would have made $2200 on the first target and lost $2400 on the ones that did not. I chased the market 5 times this month where if I waited to get in at the correct time for my rules - 4 out of the 5 would not have gotten stopped before hitting initial target. This changes the math to making $2600 on the first target and losing $1600 on the stop outs for a profit of $1000 before commissions. Not a bad month. The 26 verse 8 gets much closer the 80% win rate. A course you can sometimes get out of a losing trade before the 8 tick stop out and some of the winning trades you might cut short because of how much time it is taking.
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So August is another month and I already made the chasing mistake yesterday. My goal this month is to wait for my entry and see how much money I can make.
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I finally feel like I have a true trading plan to make money with - now I just have to get the mental game under control.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
June 2014 Results
Trades:35
Winners: 19
Losers: 12
Break evens:5
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Total Gains: $1281.00
Total Losses: $-1037.50
Avg Gain: $67.42
Avg Loss: $-86.46
Biggest Gain: $417.00
Biggest Loss: $271.00
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Trade Net: +243.50
Commissions: -$184.96
Short term Trading Net: +$58.54
Month Net: $+58.54
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Another small gain for me but a really screwed up month in trading. I had some great trades I am proud of and some really fucked up trades also.
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As I stated before, I grade each of my trades for entry and exit with either good, stupid or chicken. My ratio of good to stupid had been about 5 to 1 recently. This month it was 2 to 1 and I really wonder how I made money this month. I had 3 stupid trades that cost me the majority of my losses. I can have a good graded trade and loss money on it as long as I follow my rules. Same with a stupid trade, I could make money but it still could be graded stupid if I broke my rules.
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I continue to be happy with my slow but steady progress in my trading but I have to become more consistence with my rules. I seem to get in most of the times following my rules but too many times I am still chickening out too early.
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27 of my trades went to my first target and only 8 did not, so I should have had 27 out of 35 winners instead had only 20 winners and of those only 11 to target. If I traded my entries and exits to plan - my gain this month would have been $1800. Add to that I missed about 20 trades and my size should be 5 times bigger - you can understand what my final goal in for me. I will get there one day.
Winners: 19
Losers: 12
Break evens:5
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Total Gains: $1281.00
Total Losses: $-1037.50
Avg Gain: $67.42
Avg Loss: $-86.46
Biggest Gain: $417.00
Biggest Loss: $271.00
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Trade Net: +243.50
Commissions: -$184.96
Short term Trading Net: +$58.54
Month Net: $+58.54
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Another small gain for me but a really screwed up month in trading. I had some great trades I am proud of and some really fucked up trades also.
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As I stated before, I grade each of my trades for entry and exit with either good, stupid or chicken. My ratio of good to stupid had been about 5 to 1 recently. This month it was 2 to 1 and I really wonder how I made money this month. I had 3 stupid trades that cost me the majority of my losses. I can have a good graded trade and loss money on it as long as I follow my rules. Same with a stupid trade, I could make money but it still could be graded stupid if I broke my rules.
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I continue to be happy with my slow but steady progress in my trading but I have to become more consistence with my rules. I seem to get in most of the times following my rules but too many times I am still chickening out too early.
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27 of my trades went to my first target and only 8 did not, so I should have had 27 out of 35 winners instead had only 20 winners and of those only 11 to target. If I traded my entries and exits to plan - my gain this month would have been $1800. Add to that I missed about 20 trades and my size should be 5 times bigger - you can understand what my final goal in for me. I will get there one day.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
May Results 2014
Trades: 22
Winners: 14
Losers: 5
Break evens:3
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Total Gains: $1376.00
Total Losses: $-355.50
Avg Gain: $98.29
Avg Loss: $-71.10
Biggest Gain: $285.00
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: +1020.50
Commissions: -$130.49
Short term Trading Net: +$890.01
Month Net: -$367.02
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This is a month where my accounting gets confusing. I basicly been posting my results of my day trading accounts but over time I have had some multi-year swings positions in them also. Add to that late last year, I started selling premium which some of those trades have lasted for weeks.
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So if you just take my day trading of futures, my very short term stock trades (a few days at most) and my selling of option premiums - I had an up month. If you want to include the stock I sold for a two year loss - I had a down month. These stocks I own for years in my short term trading accounts are to generate dividends which I have not included in the stats above.
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Any way in my mind and how I look at my trading - May was a winner for me and the fourth up month in a row for me. This process was been like turning a huge ship around and I can only hope I have made that turn.
Winners: 14
Losers: 5
Break evens:3
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Total Gains: $1376.00
Total Losses: $-355.50
Avg Gain: $98.29
Avg Loss: $-71.10
Biggest Gain: $285.00
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: +1020.50
Commissions: -$130.49
Short term Trading Net: +$890.01
Month Net: -$367.02
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This is a month where my accounting gets confusing. I basicly been posting my results of my day trading accounts but over time I have had some multi-year swings positions in them also. Add to that late last year, I started selling premium which some of those trades have lasted for weeks.
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So if you just take my day trading of futures, my very short term stock trades (a few days at most) and my selling of option premiums - I had an up month. If you want to include the stock I sold for a two year loss - I had a down month. These stocks I own for years in my short term trading accounts are to generate dividends which I have not included in the stats above.
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Any way in my mind and how I look at my trading - May was a winner for me and the fourth up month in a row for me. This process was been like turning a huge ship around and I can only hope I have made that turn.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
April Results 2014
Trades: 25
Winners: 13
Losers: 7
Break evens:5
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Total Gains: $1187.50
Total Losses: $-475.50
Avg Gain: $91.35
Avg Loss: $67.86
Biggest Gain: $359.00
Biggest Loss: $162.50
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Trade Net: +712.50
Commissions: -$155.37
Day Trading Net: +$557.13
Month Net: +$557.13
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On the surface, this looks like a good month. All the stats are the way i like them - more wins than losses, and the average win bigger than the average loss but it was a lot crazier than I would have like. I had my first mental breakdown day were on 3 trades I lost $300. That was my first crazy day since last year I am glad it only cost me $300. Second item for the month, my biggest gain was playing an IPO break out. Something I seldom do. Third, I had an order entry screw up where I wanted to trade one crude contract but somehow entered 6. Lucky I got out with a small profit once I say my mistake.
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Work is getting busier and busier so I have a feeling my trading is going to be limited going forward.
I wish I was doing this succussfully full time and blogging more.
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I am very happy with most of my entries. It is with the exits I am still having problems with. I put a trade on and it goes no where for 5 minutes so I jump out with a tick or two of gain or loss only to see it then move to target. But all in all, I have had 3 1/2 months of in the black trading. i might be on to something.
Winners: 13
Losers: 7
Break evens:5
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Total Gains: $1187.50
Total Losses: $-475.50
Avg Gain: $91.35
Avg Loss: $67.86
Biggest Gain: $359.00
Biggest Loss: $162.50
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Trade Net: +712.50
Commissions: -$155.37
Day Trading Net: +$557.13
Month Net: +$557.13
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On the surface, this looks like a good month. All the stats are the way i like them - more wins than losses, and the average win bigger than the average loss but it was a lot crazier than I would have like. I had my first mental breakdown day were on 3 trades I lost $300. That was my first crazy day since last year I am glad it only cost me $300. Second item for the month, my biggest gain was playing an IPO break out. Something I seldom do. Third, I had an order entry screw up where I wanted to trade one crude contract but somehow entered 6. Lucky I got out with a small profit once I say my mistake.
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Work is getting busier and busier so I have a feeling my trading is going to be limited going forward.
I wish I was doing this succussfully full time and blogging more.
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I am very happy with most of my entries. It is with the exits I am still having problems with. I put a trade on and it goes no where for 5 minutes so I jump out with a tick or two of gain or loss only to see it then move to target. But all in all, I have had 3 1/2 months of in the black trading. i might be on to something.
March Results 2014
Trades: 30
Winners: 19
Losers: 10
Break evens:1
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Total Gains: $1021.25
Total Losses: $-327.50
Avg Gain: $53.75
Avg Loss: $32.75
Biggest Gain: $164.00
Biggest Loss: $120.00
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Trade Net: +693.75
Commissions: -$148.50
Day Trading Net: +$545.25
Month Net: +$545.25
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A very solid month for me. Only one major screw up. Average win bigger than average loss. Good Job all around. I wish all months were like this.
Winners: 19
Losers: 10
Break evens:1
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Total Gains: $1021.25
Total Losses: $-327.50
Avg Gain: $53.75
Avg Loss: $32.75
Biggest Gain: $164.00
Biggest Loss: $120.00
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Trade Net: +693.75
Commissions: -$148.50
Day Trading Net: +$545.25
Month Net: +$545.25
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A very solid month for me. Only one major screw up. Average win bigger than average loss. Good Job all around. I wish all months were like this.
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