I like to write the postmortem of my day trading after I catch some sleep. It makes my mind clearer.
Dear diary,
Ok, yesterday I made a good trade with 1-R loss. (Good trade with loss!??!, nut!) I said good trade, because the trade was executed and stopped out as planned. No rule was broken.
Of course, [...]
Archive for August 19th, 2006
John Carter from tradethemarkets.com did a good review of a number commodities, interest rate and index futures. Market reviewed includes : Bond, Dow Mini, S&P, Gold, Silver, Oil etc.
Here is the video
From the desk of Tradergav.com
Here is a snapshot of next week’s econmonic events. Pretty peaceful week.
[...]
It is time to review result of this week’s trading. It was indeed a bad week for me. Negative begining, facing discipline problem, missing trades and close a losing trade on options expiration day. However, I closed the week in black again .
This week, in fact, I had more losing trades than winning trades. [...]
Though I did read the cautious words from Mike’s blog about options expiration, I decided to trade if any dummy set up was found. Short position of E-mini Nasdaq was established below 10am (chicago time) candle. It took 1 hour to stop me out. Darn! However, everything was done by following my rules.
One trade closed [...]





