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Tuesday 9/03/2019 I had a well-being score of 6.5/10 this morning. I took 2 live trades with AAPL and 4 SIM trades. I was originally very disappointed with my trading today. I thought I didn’t follow my plan. But now after seeing the video of my trades, it wasn’t so bad. So AAPL and BABA were on my market open watchlist with MU and AMD on my 5min ORB watchlist. My trading plan for the day: Since I performed my weekly backtest data collection on Friday and forgot what my conclusions were, I reviewed it this morning. Based on the data my plan for today was watch for AAPL and BABA at the open but only trade with a hammer in the first minute. The strong candle then pull back trades are not working for either stock. Also, do not look at P/L even after the trading session. Try some SIM trades on 5/10/15 min ORBs. So I thought when I finished today I did just that, took a trade on a strong candle with a pull back. But after revieweing the video, It was a long wick candle, thus there was definitely shares being bought back. Not a hammer but with some reversing price qualities. So the price dropped almost to the PM low reversed and broke the 206.65 level. Then pulled back and held that level and I went long. Not technically breaking my trading plan. My target was the the PM high and the 200MA-1min as my stop. I got a bad fill, but no surprise this close to the open, but the price went against me immediately. On the way down I decided to flip position if I am stopped out. I wish I remember if I was feeling revenge, but I don’t remember. If I don’t remember it couldn’t have been to strong. Sadly after I flipped the volume finally arrived on BABA but now I am stuck in the AAPL trade and BABA took off without me. My second trade was short on AAPL with the low of PM as my final target, the daily level at 206.93 as my first partial and my stop back at the 200MA-1min. It took two minutes before the price went my way. I took the first partial from nerves and the second at the 205.93 level. I tried to exit at B/E but the price flew through it. I assume I gave probably half my profits back with that slide. What the chart looked like when I took the first trade: Both trades: I took 4 SIM trades including a 5min ORB with BABA. Did OK with that ORB, but BABA already had its run by then. My two losing SIM trades I exited before my stop and my two winning SIM trades were solid but not big winners. Score Card (live trades) AAPL AAPL 85% 91% What I did good today: I re-adjusted my share size on my flip on the AAPL trade since the stop was closer on the flip. I took the correct size and did it fast enough the exit and enter was the same price. What I am grateful from today? My 5/10/15min ORB SIM trades are consistently getting better. What do I need to improve on: I still feel like I didn’t stick to my plan well. Will need to be more specific with the instructions tomorrow.

I also like the SNAP trade, you had a 15min ORB with confirmation of ABCD on 2min...... I had a couple today that did the same thing, I will continue to trade them for a bit as I think it may just be bad luck. As long as we are getting the correct R/R it should work itself out. I also like the SNAP trade, you had a 15min ORB with confirmation of ABCD on 2min...... I had a couple today that did the same thing, I will continue to trade them for a bit as I think it may just be bad luck. As long as we are getting the correct R/R it should work itself out.

9-3-19 three day weekend, feel OK with 4 hours sleep, SSS and a coffee (no sugar today) PAT: I missed the spread when entering last trading day, Be Careful...... Follow my playbook only..... refer back to it and my sticky notes frequently..... Starting out bad with first two trades.... and here to journal..... +MU 5min ORB with a ABCD on 1 min, Small share size...... Idea was sound and if I did not chase the action with a bad entry I would have been able to profit 50% then BE but instead I got stopped out..... -18.00 (18.00) +SNAP first trade .......10min ORB with ABCD on 1min, Small share size..... Again I feel ok with this trade except I added in instead of waiting for confirmation.... Bad trade management...... -30.00 second trade........ VWAP false breakout fail..... again I like the trade but it did not work out, I will take SNAP out of my watch list today........ -7.00 (37.00) MDCO .... all small share size first trade ......... reverse to VWAP, stop below the 9 target VWAP +28.00 second trade........... VWAP rejection short....... got impatient and missed the move....... -4.00 third trade........ short trend pullback to 9ema from playbook #3.... I did get in late and used it more for a scalp with lot of red on the ticker and a few good bids on lvl2........... +21.00 +45.00 +TVIX first trade......... Opportunity trade, SPY dropped on news so I jumped over here to take a quick scalp long........... This is not in my playbook but will be added, I am sure there is a name for this but I will call it "Opportunity Trade".......... +51.36 second trade........ Same ........... it was just a hard pull back on SPY, kept my stop tight and honored my stop..... -18.00 +33.36 fourth trade....... MDCO Playbook #3..... only took 100 shares so I will hold onto it for a bit unless I get another opportunity to add..... I did have an opportunity to add at 1158 on the 2min but chickened out...... I only took 10% partial then all out .....on a new 15min low along with 3 new 5min lows..... and it went through the 20 and past my 47.51 HOD..... I am happy with this trade except that I did want to take it upon break of VWAP (Chickened out again) so I did leave about 100 bucks on the table ..... +107.30 Cons: I will continue to try the ORBs with ABCD confirm. for awhile longer but I feel like I am not trading well in the early morning........ I did chicken out a couple times and cost money, I have improved on this but still need to work on it.... Pros: I felt good about all of my setups.... I did hold onto my shares longer waiting for more confirmation on longer time frames before a partial or exits.... Info: I did take very small share sizes with the intention to add in upon confirm. but never had the opportunity with the exception of the last MDCO R = 50.00: +130.66

It's possible to create a hotkey in DAS that will allow you to check the margin requirements of a particular stock before actually buying/shorting the stock. Please note, this is for IB clients only! via hotkey in DAS https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?key=%SYMB%&cntry=usa&tag=United+States&ib_entity=hk&ln=&f=5168&ns=T If you enter the symbol in the montage then press the hotkey configured for above, it will launch. If there's no value then it's standard 25% for long and 30% for short. This helps to know to ensure you do not use all of your buying power before taking a position. For example: CBAY has 100 so just straight equity.

3/9/19 really bad week last week, think ive made the decision to stay in sim for another 3 months when this one expires, need to put emphasis on putting a proper playbook together and only taking trades when they meet all the requirements. going to need to study charts to put it together so starting next week im going to be putting more hours in to do this as im busy this week. Had a much better day today, trading day was cut short as i had some stuff to take care of but had a good morning. ive rearranged my DAS a bit so im watching less stocks, but i have more montage and time and sales windows open so i can pay more attention to the level 2 data which i think is helping me get a feel for the strength of stocks. i find it annoying that when you use the montage window to look at a new stock, it only has recent exchanges in the time and sales, hence why now im watching less but dont change stocks throughout the day so i can see all the large trades that have happened to get an idea of strength. 4 trades: 3 winners (5 min ORB, false breakout, wedge breakup) 1 loser (not really a setup) Trade 1: 5 min ORB on SNAP, volume increasing with bulls, low volume pullback, great entry, good partials then out at b/e. great trade. Trade 2: AMD went below VWAP after a long choppy period so went short but stopped out as i kinda realised it wasnt a good setup. Trade 3: MDCO was weak at the open, came above VWAP then lost it with volume, went short for a decent trade and got out when it started increasing with heavy volume. Trade 4: saw lower highs being made so went short at the top of the triangle, i think i prefer these entries when i can draw a clear line on the descending side of the triangle, it gives a bit more room for a stop. i had to leave half way through this trade so set a trailing stop, otherwise i wouldve taken a partial at a level on the chart for more profit, but still hit my daily target.

thanks Glenn, i'm going to keep trading them too mostly because it's the setup i'm most comfortable with, but i think i'll wait for the R:R from my stop to the day high is close to 2:1 otherwise i'll skip it because they seem to always test the high but more often then not don't go higher. I will keep testing.

Hi Rob, thanks! $16.63 was my target i didn't have the $16.44 level on my chart when i took the trade, i added it after as it was a day high from about a week back. So i picked $16.63 when i entered because it was under the next daily level but was 3R.

I really like you SNAP trade and your entrance right on the new 1min high after creating a line of support. What was your level for your final target? I can't make it out on chart. Was it the $16.50 level?

Tuesday September 3rd, 2019 Sleep: 7.5 hours. Mood: good, ready to trade after the long weekend. First trade of the month was $SNAP long ABCD (2/4) risked a new 2min low to a HOTD breakout. hit the high of the day and bounced right off, made a 5min shooting star and i wanted to give it more time but really i was just hoping it would try the high of the day again and i got stopped out for a full R. +1 point for the setup, +1 point for the stop level, +0 because HOTD was not 2R from my stop and +0 for trade management because i could have got out of the trade earlier than a full stop GOOD: setup was good, risk level much better than last week. RFI: i'm thinking these ABCDs at 9:45 are not worth the risk. all they do is turn around at 10:00 - 10:05. i should only be getting in if it's 2R to the high of the day so i can at least get some profit. MOOD: disappointed but i liked the setup and risk level. CONSISTENT: yes followed my original plan even though i could have got out earlier. Tried to take a long in $ROKU that wasn't a setup (0/4). The idea was that since it engulfed and then engulfed long again it was probably going higher and there was the PDC high as support so i took this trade. it made a shooting star and i got out on a 5min low. happy with the trade management but still get an automatic 0 for the trade because it's not a setup. GOOD: got put before my stop. RFI: don't take trades that aren't setups. MOOD: disappointed in myself for taking this trade CONSISTENT: yes Last trade of the day was an accident in $ROKU (0/4). as soon as i stopped out of the last trade i got up to use the bathroom. i realized after that i forgot to cancel my range order from my stop on the last trade. came back to a short position that i didn't want in $ROKU. i thought about just getting out with a small loss which was the right answer but then i thought i would give it to my entry because that's 1R even though it wasn't a level. $ROKU then moved right to my stop and i got out. first time i've ever had that happen, i'm embarrassed to journal this but it's important to remember to get out of the range orders. grading myself an automatic 0 because not a setup and complete accident GOOD: limited loss to 1R RFI: cancel range orders once you're out of the trade MOOD: feeling really crappy CONSISTENT: eh, limited my loss but should have just got out all together well not the way i wanted to start the month. three losses in a row, 2 of which I had no business being in the trades. my thinking last week was that i'm not hitting profit targets because my risk was too big. now i think my ABCD 2min setup is garbage and i shouldn't trade it. not sure what to do. maybe i should go back to sim and try to find new setups that actually hit my profit targets 35% of the time. on top of that just unhappy with my self control today, i should not have taken that trade in ROKU. i take so many dumb trades in ROKU becuase it's always hitting new all time highs and i keep seeing $ signs and taking awful trades in it. What i did good today: stopped out of all my trades with -1R or less What i did bad today: not taking setups, hotkey mistakes What can i do better tomorrow: find out what are my reliable setups. better yet, what is my ONE reliable setup that i can practice trading consistently and be profitable. i'm probably not going to go back to sim but i do need to spend some time reviewing my last two or 3 months of winning trades and try to find some reliable pattern i can use to trade effectively.

AMD has me so salty at the open. definitely not a good buddy. also, caught up on your youtube trade reviews. they're great, keep it up!