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Old 03-18-2009, 05:37 PM   #65

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Re: Trader P/L 2009

I will post starting next week, I recently had to use most of the capital in my trading acct. for unexpected expenses, I think being accountable will help me a great deal in building it back up.
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Old 03-19-2009, 11:46 AM   #66

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Re: Trader P/L 2009

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Decent day today.

I got into most of the trades I should have.... but... cut 2 winning trades short of what my profit target was (and subsequently hit).

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Old 03-19-2009, 03:30 PM   #67

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blah day. To be honest, I wasn't paying attention when the big money hit this morning...

Basically a wash day.

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daedalus, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of volume are you doing to get $2.4/rt on the E-minis?
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daedalus, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of volume are you doing to get $2.4/rt on the E-minis?
Mine says that too. That is the total commission (1.20 per side = 2.40 total), but they are not including the exchange fee. In the end it comes up to 2.35 per side, or 4.70 round-turn to trade ES or NQ with tradestation. In essence then, you need to subtract in 1.14 from each of his trades to get his final P&L for the day.
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Old 03-19-2009, 05:39 PM   #70

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Re: Trader P/L 2009

Can't only display the good days, so here are my last two bad days. Hopefully Friday can keep my week in the black. Last two days had too many stop outs and I missed a really nice short on the NQ this morning because I didn't get filled at the price I had ordered. Missed out on many points. Again, though, I kept my discipline and abided my stops.

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Mine says that too. That is the total commission (1.20 per side = 2.40 total), but they are not including the exchange fee. In the end it comes up to 2.35 per side, or 4.70 round-turn to trade ES or NQ with tradestation. In essence then, you need to subtract in 1.14 from each of his trades to get his final P&L for the day.
Yea with exchange fees i'm actually paying 4.80/rt through TS. If I can turn this account around I plan on keeping a small account to do 10/trades a month on to cover the platform and then keep the actual big account with Infinity which has offered much better raters.
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Yea with exchange fees i'm actually paying 4.80/rt through TS. If I can turn this account around I plan on keeping a small account to do 10/trades a month on to cover the platform and then keep the actual big account with Infinity which has offered much better raters.
That's a perfect way to do it if using TS. I no longer use TS but when I was, that's what I did - just the minimum to get the platform free and then trade through my main broker.

dae - compare OEC's rates too when you are ready to get the main account going!
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