I was trying to figure out the best way to deal with my losses. And I see this photo on Trader-X’s blog. Darn! This is what I am looking for. [photopress:yankeesSuckKid.jpg,full,centered]
Trading Psychology
Postmortem 23-August-2006
This is the business we have chosen ~ The GodFather, the movie Dear diary, Another losing day for me. “OK, I am going to shut down this blog, stop trading, slam my computer, close my trading account, go to look for a job at McDonald since it is operating 24-hours a day now in Singapore.” […]
Postmortem 22-August-2006
Dear diary, Another losing day of the week. I thought I am going to write a chunk of stuffs to express my frustration, but after getting some sleep, I forget about what really made me so frustrated. ๐ (Remember, my ‘Two losess in row, walk away for good’ rule) There was no problem with trade […]
Postmortem 21-August-2006
Dear diary, It was a slow and quiet Monday. Before I started the day, I was reading John Carter’s book. His point on opening volume of E-mini S&P(ES) caught my attention. If the first six bars on a five-minutes ES chart have most of the volume at or well under 10,000 contracts, expect a choppy, […]
Postmortem 18-August-2006
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. […]
More on ‘The next trade is more important’
I had some thoughts over my previous post “The next trade is more important”. I thought it might help some readers.


