uhm, kinda disappointing morning. Long position of NQ futures was established around 945am, when it moved above yesterday’s range and started bouncing above moving average.Well, I got stopped out.
Trading Journal
Dummy day trading #54 08-Feb-2007: NQ Short trade closed
Now I am convinced I need to add in a rule to refrain myself from trading before previous’s day range is broken. I have been thinking about this over the past week, as the success rate of my system is low when establishing position within previous day’s range. I made a short trade today which […]
Dummy day trading #53 07-Feb-2007: NQ Long trade closed
After watching NQ futures broke above yesterday’s high, I was waiting for the first pull back to get into Long position. Indeed, Long position was established around 1035am when NQ futures bounced from moving average. This trade, I applied CBL trailing stop instead of setting a fixed profit target. One trade closed with + 2.81 […]
Crappy day of Tradestation
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 […]
Dummy day trading #52 05-Feb-2007: NQ Long trade closed
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 […]
Review week ended 02-Feb-2007
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. I 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 […]
