[jonbig04]

Nice thread! I hope to join soon.

[wjrusnak]

As you requested. I was reluctant to post due to my small account size, but never-the-less, here is my past week. I think this should help me to keep consistent and disciplined, knowing that I will display my results. Today I had only the last 4 trades on the list and was finished by 10:10 a.m. I'm a college student until the summer, so I can be forgiven for making only $400-$500 every two weeks or so (or can I be...?), but I definitely need to step it up a bit. More importantly though, I've been working on the patience to take trades and as you can tell by this week, I've succeeded in doing so. Also, if you notice I was extremely conservative in my gains and I would like to work on let my profits roll a bit longer. This was due to an urgency to make up for last weeks losses. Most traders can relate to that I think?

-- Bill

[brownsfan019]

Welcome to the thread Bill!

You're a college student and trading? WOW!! Impressive IMO. You are so far ahead of the game you probably don't even realize it. What I would have done to at least be studying charts while in school.

Good to have you here!

[brownsfan019]

REMINDER: ACCOUNT SIZE IS IRRELEVANT IN THIS THREAD.

Hell, I'm just showing an account that trades 1 little contract, so size does not matter.



Who else wants to join us? Firewalker maybe....

[brownsfan019]

3-17-09



Better today.

[daedalus]

Very nice BF solid performance!!!

I personally screwed the pooch today but this thread is about posting the good with the bad. I am glad I got knocked around and lost as much as I did this AM because there was such a simple observation that would've avoided nearly every loser this morning and would've kept me about -10.00 at the end of the morning rather than -212.50.

I couldn't believe this was right in front of my nose all along.

So I used this simple idea in the afternoon and what do ya know... I hit it out of the park (by my standards at least). Two of the NQ trades (for about -80 net) were not valid setups but an idea i just wanted to try out.

Anyway, too much info. I screwed up today but I learned a lot and I didn't draw down too much considering all the wrong I did!



Taking tomorrow off due to FOMC. Its a "no edge" day for me personally!

[maximaken]

i will start posting as well...

[brownsfan019]

3-18-09




End result was alright. I missed one really important long earlier in the morning that hurt me. That one trade would almost double the resulting p/l.

Focus still not at 100%... getting there once again though day by day.