I Was Right...But At The Wrong TIME! - 05/14/20 RECAPHi traders,
What a day! I took a record of 7 trades (my average is about 3) and all of them were beautiful setups. But most of the time the market went immediately against me and pushed the stocks I traded the other way!
Key point here is not to give in and blame the market - it doesn't care at all and you can't sue it :D
Reduce the size so you don't exceed your maximal daily loss but stay in the game if you are mentally in a good state (for beginners I'd suggest switching to DEMO after 2 consecutive losses, though!).
Yes, being down for the week again sucks, but thanks to good risk management it's just over 1 percent - a single winning trade away from turning green. This is why RM is your priority. It's much harder, if not almost impossible digging yourself up from 10, 20 or 30% Drawdown
My Trades:
1) CODX - LONG @28.39, -0.95%
2) Z - LONG @46.53, +1.18%
3) MRNA - SHORT @61.95, -0.75%
4) AMD - LONG @53.03, -0.93%
5) UNFI - SHORT @18.89, -0.04%
6) DDOG - SHORT @62.78, -1.08%
7) SYF - LONG @17.02, -0.65%
*In my ID trades, I risk 1% of the account per trade and go for 2% (2:1 RRR ). Sometimes I adapt a little bit as you can see in the trades' description.*
Total PnL for the day: -3.22%
Total PnL for the week: -1.37%
Good trades,
Tom | FINEIGHT
Frustratingtimes
I Just Work Too HARD For The Gains - 05/05-6/20 RECAPHi traders,
Due to technical difficulties, I wasn't able to post Tuesday Recap, so I merged Tue and Wed together.
Oh boy, this week started on a good note and turned into frustration and below-average results... I'm still up, but based on my statistics, I'd expect to be much better off after 8 trades since Monday. This is the real challenge with Datrading, not being able to spot the formations and entry points.
Anyway, staying positive as a profit is profit, here are my trades:
Tuesday:
1) PCG - LONG @11.65, failed to continue. -1.1%
2) UAL - SHORT @24.80, a good breakdown situation, chickened out but at least only a minor loss. -0.23%
3) WRK - SHORT @26.92, failed to add later on for bigger profit. +1.41%
Wednesday:
1) PINS - LONG @18.24, looked well all the way, then crashed. At least reduced risk. -0.66%
2) SPCE - SHORT @17.21, a beautiful triangle breakdown that offered some +1.2% immediately, which I was too slow to take. Then grinded for another hour to reverse 4c before my TP. Frustrating reality!! -1.07%
3) JPM - SHORT @89.98, a typical failed breakdown, at least I recognized it somewhat soon. -0.6%
4) GOLD - SHORT @26.79, a nice, albeit not full, winner to end the day and relieve the frustration from SPCE ;) +1.69%
*In my ID trades, I risk 1% of the account per trade and go for 2% (2:1 RRR ). Sometimes I adapt a little bit as you can see in the trades' description.*
Total PnL for the day:
Tue +0.08%
Wed -0.64%
Total PnL for the week: +0.97%
Good trades,
Tom | FINEIGHT
Frustrating times3.3.20 Oil. Everyone runs in to frustrating times when trading. Frustrations can be due to a number of reasons. Taking a break from training is one obvious solution, but I have some other solutions that are not so intuitive which of work for me. Since I only had 90 minutes for the video I had to scurry forward to cover the topics that I wanted to discuss, and I also wanted to read the markets on different time frames and related to how your trading can be affected. Probably too much information into little time, yet I think this video can be helpful in a number of ways if you listen carefully, and you take some time to draw some of these lines and work through the process on your own chart. Obviously I do not know all markets, but my belief is that these patterns are universal and that price action is due to human behavior, and that all you have to do is understand the thinking of other people, including those that have more influence on the market than you do and they can influence nonrandom behavior in the market. Even if you don't agree with every premise, my experience is that these patterns are highly repeatable and require some time and introspection regarding your own analysis, and this should have a beneficial effect.