Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Well , I do not have a great start for the month. Short position of mini-sized Dow was established below 9:30am (chicago time) candle. 1-R gain was achieved and stop loss was moved to break even point, and it was triggered.
Well, too bad. One trade closed with loss of commission.
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Another lousy day. Short position of mini-sized Dow was established below 10am(chicago time) candle. Dow mini did move in my favour and it was 2-ticks away from my 1-R break even point. AGAIN?!?!?! So near, yet so far....
I am especially cautious this week. After seeing position stalled for an hour ...
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
This is a slow trade. Short position of mini-sized Dow was established below 10am (chicago time) candle. Due physical tiredness, I decided to close the trade with small gain.
Time to catch some sleep. Postmortem will be posted tomorrow. At least, I stopped the bleeding week.
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Long position of mini-sized Dow was taken above 10am (chicago time) candle. And I was stopped out with 1-R loss.
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
It was another bullish day, and it was indeed a repeat of tuesday's session. S&P, Dow Mini as well as Nasdaq were having nice dummy set up. Long position of Dow mini was established above 9am(chicago time) candle. It was a very slow trade. Position was closed at 11309, and ...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Long position of Dow Mini was established above the 9:00am (chicago time)reversal down candle. I decided to closed the trade at break even point as I do not like to see a doji immediately after the initial entry candle.
Secondly, given the consideration of Core CPI report which is due ...
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