Traders Laboratory - View Single Post - How do you calculate points per trade?
View Single Post
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 07-27-2007, 11:28 PM
james_gsx's Avatar
james_gsx james_gsx is offline
james_gsx has no status.

Trader Specs
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 704
Thanks: 56
Thanked 54 Times in 32 Posts
Blog Entries: 3
Send a message via AIM to james_gsx Send a message via Skype™ to james_gsx
Re: How do you calculate points per trade?

I just do points per contract.

For example, a 3 contract play and the first one was +10, the next +20, and the third stopped out I would label them all separately. Then at the end of the day I would tally it all up for (example) +10 on the whole trade.

Lets say I buy 3 YM at 13,200 and it moves to 13,210, the first contract is scaled out and I move my stop up to break even. Then it goes up to 13,220 and I scale out of the second trade, and then it retraced back to 13,210 and my third contract is stopped out.

1st contract - +10
2nd contract - +20
3rd contract - +10

Thats exactly how I would record it in my notes.

If it hit 13,210 then retraced to 13,200 then it would show

1st contract - +10
2nd contract - 0
3rd contract - 0

Then I would rank the trade accordingly.

Reply With Quote