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10 Oct 2019 Today is the MOVING AVERAGE day for me. Took 2 trades and both are green. $BBBY - Saw 2 red indecisive candles at 1 min chart. Once I saw it moving above VWAP, I took a LONG position. I move my stop to break even and I got stopped out. If not it will be a very good upward move. $DAL - Saw a inverted hammer at 2 min chart and 1 min chart moving downwards from VWAP. I immediately entered the trade to the SHORT side and managed to cover all positions before it bounce back to VWAP again. Very happy with my performance today. I should stop trading now to prevent over-trading. All the best guys!

09Oct.19 red day. -3r. I shouldn't have traded today, I was not relaxed and not in the right state of mind, may be due to lack of sleep. I still wanted to just sit thru premarket work, but ended up trading($ROKU). I had the right idea today on $ROKU, but messed up the trades, and $ROKU was choppy at the open too. Watchlist: $ROKU, $QGEN, $LEVI, $DBVT Trade1: $ROKU. Roku gapped up due to upgrade. I had the premarket level 111.4 which was strong premarket support. I was going to take long if the stock gets there. $ROKU was strong enough at the open, so i took long at break of 112.6, got 1r due to wide stop, din't partial, got stopped out. Trade 2: $ROKU. Roku pulled back to my level 111.4 and I got long. Was great entry and I planned 3r range order, small stop. Stock moved 2.5r and stopped me. I should have known $ROKU was chopping at this stage. Trade 3: $ROKU. Once the support 111.4 is broken, I took short, got stopped out again. Now I realized it was chopping. Trade 4: $ROKU. long again after the break of 112.6 level (similar to first trade). Partialed quickly this time. Added some and got stopped out. Trade 5: $LEVI. Earnings play. but flat at the open, so I was not sure which way it will go. At the open it sold off, I took a reversal in SIM, got stopped out. Took a live trade at the VWAP pullback short, 2 partials and 3rd at BE. Trade 6: $X. $X was very bearish at the open, dropped 12%. after 11, it started reversing. I got stopped out on the first trade. After the double bottom, I took long again, small stop, but got out 2/3 my position by mistake. left 1/3 for 3r. Good: After my morning trades, I switched to SIM, I made some very good trades. $QGEN I noted the RSI was 11% very much oversold. And it was very strong today, despite opening lower. Improvement: I was hoping to have a clean trade on $ROKU similar to $NVDA yesterday. But it didn't happen and I didn't have a planB. My $ROKU trade had an impact on other trades in the afternoon and I stopped trading.

Thursday 10/10/2019 I had a well-being score of 6/10 this morning. Took 2 live trades this morning was with AAPL and BABA. Probably shouldn’t have traded this morning. I wasn’t planning on it because there were planned power outages to occur 4am. I woke up and there was still power and the outage was moved to noon. But I wasn’t in the right mind set and the usual nightly tasks to prepare were not completed. Adding to that I injured my food last night which I thought wasn’t bad. Then I saw how black and blue it was this morning and realized I probably under estimated the injury. Essentially, I was not in the right mind frame and should have skipped trading today. Though the trades, on their own, do not look that bad. I have no memory of looking at SPY, L2 or T/S before I took either trade. Actually, I don’t even remember looking at volume before I took the BABA trade which is a must. So I consider this a bad trading day and it was not bad luck for my -2.3R loss today. I traded poorly and should have not even opened the platform today. I still like the daily charts and PM on both AAPL and BABA. I was long bias on both before the open. Both stocks, especially, BABA were showing strength right before the open. Volume was instant for AAPL and a small hammer was created and I went long when the price broke the HOPM. My target was 228 with the bottom of the candle as a stop. I usually like better stops this close to the open. The price immediately went against me and I was stopped out a few seconds later with a >-1R. BABA had a really strong last 5min of PM and I waited for a pull back. An incomplete hammer was created and I went long at the bounce of the 165.20 level, with 165 as my stop and 166 as my target. There was volume, but honestly I didn’t check it at the time. Just like AAPL the price retraced immediately after I entered the trade and I was stopped out a few seconds later. Got my head spinning to be -2R just after 9:31am and done with my live trading for the day. I did take a SIM short on BABA for +2R, but it didn’t really help my mood. I shouldn’t have traded today. One note. PG&E are planning proactive power outages in my area to reduce chance of fire. I may not have power for 2 to 3 days. So if you don’t see any journal entry from me the rest of the week, you know what happen. Score cards (live trades). I can’t really blame myself for the long bias, both looked strong in the PM. Not following my entrance checks were my main errors. AAPL BABA 85% 88% What I did good today: Took a good SIM trade. What I am grateful from today? Stopped trading at 2 trade limit What do I need to improve on: When not to trade when you don’t have the right mindset.

10-9-19 Woke at 0740 with 4 hours sleep. Feel good..... SSS and a coffee..... Read a bit in The Playbook .... PAT: Share Size ...... A or better setups only..... NOTES: I will go back to no trading in the first 5min........ All PB#1 (ORB with confirmation of ABCD on 1 or 2min) will be SIM of SIM untill I feel better about this setup again....... Tried three trades, PB#1 with no luck..... QGEN I got a bad entry on first 5minORB and then stopped myself early on the 15min ORB which I realize now was setting up a nice PB#3...... and an MU which almost went to my target but went down and price action changed so I got out with a 1 cent loss.... -64.25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will make this my break of SIM and Live account for my information.... but as I have been doing I will still use my P&L for all trades since I do not have a way to separate them yet....... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QGEN this is a 2nd day play with a 16x RVOL premarket and an 8X when I took it.... it had a huge gap down from Q results and investigations in possible security violations..... This was on SSR so I was looking for investors to buy for value on the large gap down..... PB#3 (A setup), + would have been if I recognized it when I stopped early in the 15min ORB...... I went in with 4/5 share size and added in to full share size... The only resistance in the near future was the 200ma on the 5min and this was far enough away that the RR was 2.5/1 ...... Took two partials at 25% each then all others were 10% and all out on a new 15min low and my Reason2Exit ...... When I got back from running around I found another entry that I feel was an A+ setup and took full size again. I did partial for $60 once and set a hard stop up because I was have to manage another business also and got stopped at BE...... +206.40 Cons: Missed the first opportunity on QGEN and stopped out too soon..... the first one on QGEN I also stopped out early... I believe both of these are just fear and lack of trust in my trade.... Pros: Found a good setup in QGEN even after I made the early stop....... I feel good the way I managed QGEN Favorite Trade: QGEN Notes: I like the share sizes I took and will continue with no pre 5min trades and all PB#1s will be Sim of SIM for at least the rest of the week... R = 50.00: +117.90 / +206.40

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I am with Centerpoint but unsure if I can recommend them over IB. But you will learn more about your style of trading soon and then you can choose the correct broker for your style. SSR means it is restricted so can only short on an uptick. So if the price is dropping continuously will probably not get a chance to enter. I live in the US pacific time zone. So the market opens at 6:30am for me. So I can trade, drive my daughter to school and head to work.

If someone is interested, I wrote a few AutoHotkey commands to add new rows and perform other actions in the Market Viewer through hotkeys. In the attached file you can find hotkey scripts to: Delete the selected row (ALT+D) Delete all the rows (SHIFT+ALT+D) Add a new row (ALT+N) Export the current list to a file (ALT+E) Import the previously exported list (ALT+I) The last two commands are useful to copy the content of a Market Viewer window to another Market Viewer window Additionally, there is a command to add the current symbol selected in the Montage window to the Market Viewer. However, the script is written to work only if the Market Viewer window is the only one located in the same screen of the Montage window. If you need the script can be adapted to insert the symbol in a specific Market Viewer (follow the instructions in the script). To use the script, change the extension of the file to .ahk and launch it with AutoHotkey (https://www.autohotkey.com/) EDIT: Updated with a new version, including some new functions: Possibility to add the date to the exported files (IncludeDateMVList parameter at the beginning of the file) Some functions to calculate the profit targets based on multiples of your predefined risk A function to drag a symbol from the Market Viewer list to a chart (useful if you don't want to use a montage window for each chart) A function to toggle between standard and bigger Montage window height (to display wider market depth when needed) DAS-BBT-V1.ahk.txt