Trader P/L 2009

[edabreu 10]

Small consistent gains while waiting to catch a runner....

[brownsfan019 17]

Record day for me on my futures trading. +$723

And that is even with a choppy day on the ZS. All currency trades were from last night.

 

 

You know what is interesting dinero? You are showing some nice results w/o touching the ES. At one time around here that was the standard. If you didn't trade the ES, you weren't a trader.

 

Amazing how you can make some very nice profits (and some days easy profits) w/o even touching that bot crazy market.

[eric341 10]

Not happy with last night's trade. I was too quick on the trigger imo. Should have waited a bit to see how the market was going to move before putting on a trade. What actually happened was my position got steamrolled as I was on the other side of a moving market.

 

I'm happy with how I limited my losses by using a stop loss and actually sticking to it, however.

 

 

 

happy trading

[Dinerotrader 10]

You know what is interesting dinero? You are showing some nice results w/o touching the ES. At one time around here that was the standard. If you didn't trade the ES, you weren't a trader.

 

Mostly thanks to your posts about other futures. Hopefully everyone else will keep trading the ES as usual. I still haven't really spent much time with bonds during economic announcements. Its on my to do list. Oil and the soybeans keep me pretty busy. I don't have any time for trading this morning. I should be back at it tomorrow. I am always scared I'll miss that huge move on some day that I can't trade, even though I am still on SIM (I take my SIM trades very seriously).

[brownsfan019 17]

11-17-09: -$77.50

 

A whole bunch of work for that. Some days you got it, other days you don't. A few trades could have been managed better, but tomorrow is a new day.

 

Also - once again, I think I am divorcing the 6E. We seem to have a love/hate relationship and lately it's been a lot of hate. So we are done till I get the itch again.

 

Per a request, I'm going to try to remember to color code my days green = up, red = down. Apparently the - sign is hard to read for some.

[eric341 10]

-NZ$39.92

 

Put on a short position on the DAX before the US market open and went to sleep. The market didn't decline much then rose, hitting my stop loss.

 

I wonder if there is a function that allows you to move your stops automatically so that it becomes a trailing stop. Will need to find out on my platform.

 

Anyway, the market was rather choppy and non trending today. I'll look for a short opportunity tomorrow. I think the mistake I made today was not waiting for a high probability setup. I knew my stop was likely to get hit but just went for the trade anyway. I think I was just afraid of missing out on a huge move.

 

DAX 30 min:

 

 

 

happy trading

[edabreu 10]

Another day with the CL being the only thing really moving. The ES was horrible, and the TF was not much better.

[subterfuge 10]

No blotter. Down $300 ish. Not good. Couldn't get in the zone today. Still seem to be doing OK on a weekly basis so not panicking yet but my 'hot streak' has definitely died down.

 

On to tomorrow.

 

Cheers.

[hedonQ 10]

... been absent last few months.

 

Tuesday's p/l on gbp/usd:

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/members/hedonq-albums-pnl-picture80-11-18.gif

 

 

Tough start but made some defensive and tactical adjustment in mid flight.

The last two trades were terrible, game plan dictated more ambitious target. In hindsight, price reached the target level eventually.

I think I did not not define what exactly needs to happen to invalidate the setup on the last two trades. Some price pressure needs to be considered as long as the setup is valid.

 

Good Luck.

[subterfuge 10]

+402.50

probably done for the day. Yesterdays losses wiped out and an extra $100 on top.

[bathrobe 10]

No trading for me for last week and the rest of the week, in case anybody was wondering.

 

You guys are quite impressive with commodities. I lightly trade Oil and in the past some currencies, but I always felt these markets had geo-political and fundamental reasons as to why they moved (my father was a professional trader and taught me this) but you guys prove otherwise everyday.

[brownsfan019 17]

No trading for me for last week and the rest of the week, in case anybody was wondering.

 

You guys are quite impressive with commodities. I lightly trade Oil and in the past some currencies, but I always felt these markets had geo-political and fundamental reasons as to why they moved (my father was a professional trader and taught me this) but you guys prove otherwise everyday.

 

BR - they all have the reasons for moving but I really enjoy Oil and Soybeans. If you want quick and decisive moves, you should take a peak.

[bathrobe 10]

BR - they all have the reasons for moving but I really enjoy Oil and Soybeans. If you want quick and decisive moves, you should take a peak.

 

Yeah, I have traded oil I will look at soybeans next week and maybe trade on very light size.

 

FWIW my father and I view all markets from opposite ends of the spectrum. I did not mean because he said that it was right........he traded in the late 1970's early 80's

[Dinerotrader 10]

11/18/09 +227

 

Some good oil trades. I should have stayed away from the ZS when it was obvious is was going to be a slow day but in back of my mind was all the memories of great moves.

 

[brownsfan019 17]

11-18-09: +$372.50

 

An ok day. Missed a nice russell trade and the ZS also stinged me. I was short into a nice move down but got shaken out.

[hedonQ 10]

... trading marathon yesterday in GBP/USD... started at 4am, closed out the last trade 1:45am today.

That's something like 22 hours, if I can still count. But I got it done at the end.

 

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/members/hedonq-albums-pnl-picture81-11-19.gif

 

Good Luck today.

[subterfuge 10]

anyone else unable to see HedonQ's images?

[hedonQ 10]

anyone else unable to see HedonQ's images?

 

I think I fixed it. Sorry about it

[brownsfan019 17]

11-19-09: +$530.00

 

This is one of those days that should have looked like Monday but I screwed a few things up.

 

[Dinerotrader 10]

11/19/09 +447.48

 

I missed the big oil move of the day which I had fully anticipated but I was on the road while it happened. Is there a way to make OEC generate a commissions expense so you have a net number at the end of the day. I am still overtrading so I need to get better at waiting for the moves. A big reduction in my P/L might help me with that.

 

[brownsfan019 17]

11/19/09 +447.48

 

I missed the big oil move of the day which I had fully anticipated but I was on the road while it happened. Is there a way to make OEC generate a commissions expense so you have a net number at the end of the day. I am still overtrading so I need to get better at waiting for the moves. A big reduction in my P/L might help me with that.

 

 

I asked them to implement that before but I don't think it has. Send them a support ticket and I will do the same. Maybe a few of these will get it on their list again. I agree 100%, your p/l should be able to reflect gross AND net.

[thalestrader 14]

anyone else unable to see HedonQ's images?

 

 

I cannot view them either.

[Gabe2004 10]

I cannot view them either.

 

 

If you save the thumbnail and re-open it, everything seems OK but not if you just click on it.

 

Gabe

[diablo272 10]

anyone else unable to see HedonQ's images?

 

They work fine for me.

[hedonQ 10]

If you save the thumbnail and re-open it, everything seems OK but not if you just click on it.

 

Gabe

 

Not sure why this is happening. I tried it in Chrome incognito and Firefox with cookies and caches cleared, works fine.