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March 28, 2019 - Nothing met my edge, but I did take a sim trade on $AMD working the engulfing strategy that I will be incorporating after this sample set.

One more day of the Challenge. Today I traded poorly just like yesterday. Fees and Commissions pile up when you are firing away trying to make up for your last bad decision. My FB trades got way out of hand. Later in the day I did make a couple of normal trades. Hopefully next week I will fall back into my normal trading habits. Pre Market Plans 2 Days in a row with a Christmas tree chart in my recap.....Not Good! Im going for a home run tomorrow in the open, I think that's my only chance to win now.

Thursday March 28th, 2019 Sleep: 7 hours. Mood: good, ready to trade. First trade of the day was an ORBU in AMD. i missed the ORBD but when i saw the big volume and the punch through VWAP and the MAs i thought it would make a good long trade. sold half at the HOTD and another half at the previous previous day low. got out the last piece after the engulfing candle at 10:10. GOOD: waited for a good opportunity. got a decent entry. RFI: sold first half too early MOOD: good. CONSISTENT: yes. I was waiting for a double top in AMD after i got out of my last trade. ended up getting back in on the short side once it made a new 5min low below the PPDC line. I chased the entry a little bit, i could have waited a minute of two and got a better entry. i risked the HOTD to the 200MA on the 5min chart that was also right around the even $25 level. sold half at VWAP too early but it didn't sell off like i expected it to and i was afraid of it bouncing off the VWAP. I shouldn't have been concerned because it ended up hitting my profit target and i got all out. GOOD: waited for confirmation it was a short. RFI: got in too early and out on my first half too soon. MOOD: good. CONSISTENT: not on the first half. What i did good today: Only took trades i was confident in. What i did bad today: Nerves are still present on my selling. it's my first week back live trading so i'm not too hard on myself for this. What can i do better tomorrow: Set range orders for slower moving stocks past 10:30 so i don't over analyze the price action.

Thursday 3/28/2019 I had a well-being score of 5/10 this morning. My nerves were good this morning. An interesting day. I actually took 3 trades today though I have a 2 trade/day limit. The third trade was supposed to be in simulation. I am having an issue with the simulator. I seem to only be 50% successful switching from live to sim. I double checked the order settings both on the platform menu and the montage but it’s still very iffy. I had two trades today on AMD and one on LULU. AMD had a scalp setup both long and short. And yes I scalped it in both directions. The first scalp was long. I entered when it broke the 25.18 TL and first partial (large partial) was at the Boullinger band. Then out at B/E. The there was a scalp setup in the other direction. I went short on the new LOTD with my first target 200MA and a second target the 24.89 level. I took a large partial at the the 200MA and S/O at B/E. These partials on scalps aren’t working. I may have to stop that. I switched to SIM and double checked it. Then I liked LULU (great R/R and a near 1st target) and decided to make this SIM trade as realistic as possible. Though I like the slow and steady up swing to VWAP, if I was really trading this live I would give it a large room and a wide S/L. So I set my S/L at the 5 min 20MA. Then I went long and quickly checked if it was on SIM. It was not. But since I took a realistic trade and my nerves were good I stayed with it. I took my first partial at a premarket tech level (168.77), though not sure where I got that level from. Then took partials a bit arbitrary. Then all out on the 1min new low. What I did good today: Nerves were good. Great S/Os at B/E. How did I challenge myself today? Handled an accidental live trade well. What I did bad today: Took an accidental live trade. What can I do better tomorrow: Need to figure out what is wrong with switching from Live to SIM.

Well, then I'm the first, I trade extremely bad in Sim not caring about plans because it's fake money anyway, but when i have some money on the line I follow the plan better. Thanks! :-)