[enochbenjamin]

I am done with my banishment and back to trading real money. SIM trading just doesn't work for me. I crush the SIM market - if my creditors would take SIM payments I would only SIM trade.

Back to real money +$162 - small but back in the black.

[karim0028]

Novice, you are doing pretty well for just starting out... I've seen at least 3 or 4 days in a row where you are making about 250.00, that shows your at least doing something right... You're getting to consistency pretty quickly there....

Good Job.

[NoviceTrader1]

For the past 2 days:

P/L: -387
Balance: 4033

I have come to a realization today, the days that I am profitable I only make a few trades. There are about 4-5 trades with certain characteristics, that work consistently. I spent some time today and put these trades and their characteristics on paper. I am going to stick to making these trades and see how everything goes in the next couple weeks.

[NoviceTrader1]

I have been on a hiatus from trading for the past few weeks, and I have been focusing on school and getting other things together in my life. I am looking to land an internship for the summer, hopefully at a trading firm, IB, or something related to that. I did complete an internship at a small local financial advisory firm last summer.

Does anyone think that adding my futures P/L to my resume would be a good idea? I started my account at $5,000 last year...Started 2010 at about 3300, and now I am sitting around $4000. I think it would show that I have put in some time into trading on my own, and that I am willing to put in work into the endeavor, any ideas?

[Cory2679]

Originally Posted by NoviceTrader1 »

Does anyone think that adding my futures P/L to my resume would be a good idea? I started my account at $5,000 last year...Started 2010 at about 3300, and now I am sitting around $4000. I think it would show that I have put in some time into trading on my own, and that I am willing to put in work into the endeavor, any ideas?

Trading is certainly worth including on your resume...I would put it under something like "activities." You could maybe include P/L under one of the bullet points.

[sactown1]

It's been a while since I updated this log, so I thought I might continue where i left off . In the past year my trading has gone in circles, I've thought I have found a profitable approach many times, only to be disappointed later. I traded chart patterns in the ES, CL, NG. I traded Support and Resistance levels across numerous markets. I took a short foray into forex. All in all, I've learned a lot about what works and what doesn't.

I spent my summer reading, testing, and trading a little. Ive came across a very interesting blog of prop traders, who espouse many of the things that I've found to be useful . These traders essentially fade pivots taken from a volume profile, they use a combo of order flow, market internals, and other things to find trades. I find this approach of trading very appealing, as it resembles some of the characteristics i have noticed in markets but have not found a way to exploit. I have always seen the power of pivots(S/R), but never found a solid way to trade these levels. This blog of helpful traders, may provide me with some more ideas so i may continue to learn and eventually make some money. I have been studying this approach, and hope to implement in my own way.

(Moderator: URL removed - promotion)

[sactown1]

Im also graduating in December, And I hope to land a job as a trainee at a prop trading firm. However, my goal of being consistently profitable at the time of applying for trading positions has not been fulfilled. All in all, I don't regret putting all this time into trading, because I have learned about the hard work that it takes to be a trader. I will be applying for positions at Prop trading firms, and I will be including my trading on my resume. I am aware that most prop firms only recruit at top-tier universities and tend to only hire from these schools. I am at a State University here in California, so I may already be at a disadvantage. I have traded, and I have a passion for this...so hopefully I can bring this out in my Resume etc. If anyone has some suggestions that would help me break into this field It would be much appreciated thanks!

[NoviceTrader1]

I seem to have posted under my other username, apologies...I will continue this log under this username. Sorry for the Confusion!