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Crappy day of Tradestation

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I have no idea what’s going on with my Tradestation. I have an nice short setup of NQ around 1050am. My sell order was triggered, and immediately I saw some big loss figure in Matrix screen. It hanged, and suddenly showed me losses. That was not synchronized with what I was looking at chart. Without hesistation, I closed my position. And you know what, I was profitable! What the heck. I ended with +0.5 R gain only.

What a crappy day. I planned my trade, but the software failed me. Forget it, I am going to call it a day.

Here is my setup. Ah well…. a multiple R setup. Argghhh….

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Dummy day trading #52 05-Feb-2007: NQ Long trade closed

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Long position was established around 1041am (NY time), which was the first pull back of new uptrend cycle. This was the second time NQ trying to test last Friday’s high. I was wrong . Stop loss was triggered with 1 R loss. Since the second attempt of previous high failed, NQ seems to be trapped in the trading range. I am out for the day, cough syrup causes some drowsiness now.

One trade closed with -1 R loss

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Trade summary

  • Long above narrow range candle around 1041am , which was breaking out from a flag pattrn as well.
  • Stop loss set at recent swing low.
  • Stop loss was triggered with 1 R loss.

Review week ended 02-Feb-2007

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It is a boring Friday morning. I was watching NQ till lunch hour, and decided to call a day. Here is the weekly review of my trading performance.

money-3.gifI achieve my goal by having another profitable week. However, earning is still small. This is a week with full of events like FOMC meetings and Non Farm payroll etc. I start integrating chart pattern with dummy setup. So far so good. In total 4 trades were made.

Summary

  • Total P/L(after commission): +2.52 R
  • Trades taken: 4
  • Winners: 2 (50%)
  • Losers: 1 (25%)
  • Break even: 1 (25%)
  • Expectancy: 0.63
  • Biggest winner (after commission): +2.01 R
  • Biggest loser (after commission): -1.06 R

The obvious limitation I can see is trading only one futures (NQ) and one setup. The most challenging part is patience. I have to be patient to wait for the right spot to get into the trade. Once consistency is achieved (I am giving myself until end of first quarter of the year), I will start playing around with position sizing, by utilising day trading margin, maybe.

Dummy day trading #51 02-Feb-2007: NQ Long trade closed

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It is a choppy morning. After observing flag pattern formed, and the first pull back of new uptrend cycle, I took a long position of NQ Futures at the break of flag. It started nicely, however it stuttered after moving up around 38.2% from flag pole. I moved my stop to break even , and it was triggered.

One trade closed with 0 R.

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Trade summary

  • Long above at break out of flag around 1012am. @1806.25. Entry is a little bit late.Missing out few tics.
  • Stop set at recent swing low 1803.75
  • Profit target is calculated by measuring height of flagpole.

Dummy day trading #50 01-Feb-2007: NQ Long trade closed

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Long position was established at 940am when a flag pattern and dummy spot were found. This is another pattern trade, so target is set by using the height of flag pole. Target was not achieve, however, it was near, I closed the position when uptrend seems to be weaker.

One trade closed with +1.56 R gain.

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01 Feb 2007

Trade summary

  • Long at 940am, when NQ broke out from flag.
  • Initial stop was set at last swing low.
  • Target set by measuring height of flag pole.