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05.Nov.19 Watchlist: $ UBER, $AMRN, $MYGN, $SHAK. I did the watchlist, took a small premarket trade (+1r) decided not to trade after the open today. I am working on my habit of taking lot of setups and overtrading. That means some days no trading and some days small no of trades.

Hello Ichizo! Welcome to the community! We’re really happy to have you around with us, and having your 10 years of experience of trading is really valuable! I do hope you learn lots of new stuff here from us as we would do from your past experience in the markets!

November 4, 2019 I had to drive home over the weekend, so that meant I was driving into work today causing me to get about 2 hours of sleep. I could barely stay awake for the pre-market show, so it was obvious to me that today was going to be a no trade day. I used the day to work on my discipline by just watching charts and forcing myself not to trade live or in sim. I plan on getting attending the classes and getting a great night of sleep. Tomorrow, I am live with all three of my strategies. I am looking forward to it. Sample Set Results, S P G E E P P P P G G P P P G 16 17 18 19 20

4/11/19 really choppy day and stopped taking trades pretty early when the market wasnt doing what i wanted. Trade 1: tried a rising devil on UAA but stopped out at 0.5 Rs when it didnt drop straight away Trade 2: loads of abig asks on BABA and after a double hammer on the 1 with higher lows i went long, got 2 partials and out at b/e Trade 3: looked like it found support at 180 so went long but didnt quite get to 2R so stopped out. Trade 4: looked like an ascending triangle so tried to get in before it went up for the third touch but out at a new low.

11-4-19 AIS 0800 with 4 1/2..... feel just OK...... Normal morning routine.... PAT: Share Size..... Trade Management..... No FOMO November..... Notes: Do not pay much attention to the stocks not in play early on...... I am going to try to turn off the Chat once I am in a trade or getting ready to trade..... AMD PB#1...... setups were long biased and I took full size on both...... I probably should not have even taken these two trades..... first one I should have partialed out 50% at 1R but I did not and the second one was into too much resistance.... Looks like lots of investors are taking profit at close to ATH....... UAA PB#1....... B+...... Catalyst and price action was in my favor for the short but I got a horrible fill on the SSR and action went against me right away and hit my hard stop..... MU PB#1...... A ....... 30 min ORB with ABCD on the 2min..... Didnt like the 5min candles and the LVL2 was not really showing any signs one way or the other.... BIDU AMD PB#3...... A..... LVL2 trades I did a lot of buying at the bounce of 9ema on the 2min and taking partials along with add ons....... I unfortunatlly do not have much time to log here but this took me from almost max loss to slight green.... Cons: Took way too many trades..... Took pre 5min trades..... Pros: for the most part I took the share sizes that I wanted.... I did respect my stops.... Favorite Trade: AMD PB#3 Notes: This AMD trade I called out on the Chat and very proud that Thor took the advice of moving the stop from .90 to .89 ..... and waiting till .98 to start partialing.... P&L Goal 50.00: +.16.47

Worse day in 9 months. A bit ironic I wrote in my monthly summary last night that I hadn’t hit max loss in 9 months. I am not trying to place a blame, though it will sound like it. I had an incident on Friday morning, after the trading session, which completely threw me mentally. I couldn’t focus on Friday and Saturday. But on Sunday I thought I recovered and then traded live this morning. Wow, I wasn’t myself from the moment the opening bell rang. I was breaking rules without any second thought. Finally, when I was down 1.5Xmax loss I was just waiting for the platform to auto liquidate my position as I requested through my broker. But it didn’t happen. I finally hit the panic point and exited my position at 2.5XMax Loss. Of course the stock instantly reversed the moment after I exited my position and went for a big run where I would have made a killing. I then immediately turned off my platform and walked away. Looking back on it now the reversal was a good thing. I shouldn’t be rewarded for breaking my rules. Maximum pain is what should happen. I checked my emails with my broker and I see the request for the liquidation of my position and no new trades when I reached unrealized+realized loss of 1.5Xmax loss. Then I saw the broker saying they can’t do that. Not sure why I missed that I thought I had that risk control for months. I requested it again today and hopefully they are able to comply. I have a reasonably sophisticated way of determining if I am physically able to trade. If what is preventing you is completely in your head it is a bit vague to set limits. I guess if you are not sure if you are ready, you are not. I will be on SIM only until I know I am ready to go back. Hopefully, everyone else fared better today.

Live trading summary of the month of October. An interesting month. I made 34 trades, which is about average. I am flat again for the month (as usual) but I think positively of this month. I was down -8R by the halfway point. I made a few adjustments and I ended up the month up +0.5R. The adjustments I made: First, I switched so I only have one montage. I started taking two trades at once and I was doing well, but I knew that was a bad habit and I needed to stop. Once I did I was better at reading the tape, because I could focus completely on it. Second, was I moved my B/E stop outs by 4 cents (not in my favor). I missed two HUGE runs early in October by the stock dropping down and stopping me out at B/E by 1 or 2 cents and going on for 10R runs. Third, I lowered my R from $30 to $10. I always used a R that was the maximum I could handle mentally. But that is not correct. I need to place it in a sweet spot. High enough I feel I am trading live but not stressed about the money. Actually I am increasing now from $10 to $15 next week. Finally, I set up buttons that automatically setup a limit order at 1.5R for a 50% selling of shares. I take partial profits way to early. With that limit order in and on my screen I have more patience waiting for it. A lot of members of my chatroom set a limit order at 2R, but my data shows that very few of my trades make it to 2R. But 1.5R is common enough to make it worth while. Though I create a score card for each trade, I don’t track it any more on a monthly level. I am glad to say I did not hit the max daily loss on any day this month (and the last 9 months). Goals for November: 1) Don’t go hulk. 2) Learn to control your emotions after a loss. 3) Keep using the limit order on 1.5R 4) Increase risk per trade $15. 5) Keep improving health. 6) Keep making SIM trades on 5/10/15 min ORBs 7) Start taking small live 5/10/15 min ORBs. At least once a week. 8] Take a break with the Van Tharp course for traders. There was one recent chapter actually took a month, working almost every day, to finish. It burned me out for the course and I need a break from it. At least a week, but I am OK restarting in December. 9) Work on being able to manage a trade with a bad entry. Either exit or take shares off the trade to renormalize the risk. 10) Allow a third trade if a previous trade was exited well early for a tactical trade management purpose. 11) Stop out at B/E if price reached 1R and retraced. 12) I can look at P/L window again once the trading session is over. 13) The goal is to make money. Stop caring if you are right or wrong about a trade. If it was a good setup and well managed, you will always be right. Plan for next week. BABA is in play at the open (1min ORBs) but not showing much for the 2/5/15min ORBs. AAPL is only in play for the 5min ORB. MU choppier than usual and only should be a focus if gapping big or unusually high volume.