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Monday August 19th, 2019 Sleep: 7:30. Mood: good, feeling like not wanting to do anything this morning. i'm typically on vacation around this time so my body is in relax mode Only took one live trade today. i took an ABCD in NVDA. great entry, but the r/r was a bit of a stretch. i added the ATR to my daily chart and i saw NVDA was already over it's daily ATR so i was concerned that it would not hit my profit target. I got out at break even with a 2min shooting star with volume and a new 5min low. i'm happy with that exit, I want to work more on minimizing my losses. improvement for this trade was i could have got back in when it was holding the MAs on the 2 min pretty much exactly where i got in the first time. GOOD: entry, exit management RFI: R/R was far for NVDA ATR could have changed it to 2R MOOD: ok, not pleased i got shook out but it's something i'm working on, should have got back in CONSISTENT: yes i followed the plan and exited when i didn't like the price action. tried some SIM reversals, NVDA triple top didn't work and PCG double bottom that did work. What i did good today: managed the trade all the way to the end What i did bad today: didn't get back in the trade when it turned around What can i do better tomorrow: practice getting back in to trades that end up working.

I had my stream deck set, then formatted my pc and was lazy to set it up again lol, after reading this post I decided to get rid of my laziness and make something good out of it lol

I was looking for the daily score card that Brett Steenbarger suggests but couldn't find anything to incorporate in my journal so I came up with my own custom journal. I borrowed a lot of what Robert has in his journal template and made an excel file that is formula driven when the trade log is exported and pasted into it. I copy the day tab that is currently labeled "04.25" and pull in my trade log from Das in there, then update the Summary sheet tab using the existing Hlookup formulas. Here's a copy of the file if anyone is interested. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WcUmRE2lMy3jyf8UICQXdRXU1m7LUFgk

candlesticksmadeeasy (1).pdf Hey guys, my friend, a very happy options trader, sent me this book on candlestick analysis. Some of what is in here is covered in Andrew's videos, and some of it is new -- and he goes into a "how and why it works" explanation when discussing candlestick patterns. A few people in the chat wanted to read it so I am posting it here. Enjoy