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11.Nov.19 +2.5r. Didn't complete my premarket routine. Had only 4 hrs sleep last night. So din't trade the open or prenoon today. Took one trade on $AMD at noon. Trade 1: $AMD. $AMD was bullish and trending up although gapped down at the open. $36.2 was a key level which acted as both resistence (multiple times) and support. I took it long after the bounce off this level. Took partials at daily levels. Final partial at 36.55, after lot of L2 actions at 36.5 level. Skipped rest of the session. Good: Traded $AMD only after completing my premarket routine (that I have implemented to bring more discipline into my trading) Overall, happy with my trading today.

Monday 11/11/2019 I had a well-being score of 7.5/10 this morning. First day back live after my rule breaking day last Monday. I took 1 live trade this morning with BABA. My watchlist today was: AAPL, BABA, MU, ROKU, WBA and TSLA BABA gapped down and I was short biased. I had BABA on my main screen at the open. After the open I waited for the big print. On most days BABA has a really big print on T/S. It is not like AAPL where it is a small part of its volume and occurs right at the open. For BABA it tends to be at least 20 seconds from the open. I do not know if this is a live trade or a print from PM or yesterday that is reported now. But it gives some nice info. Usually the print itself gives no direction. Even if it is at the Bid or Ask it still gives no direction. What I have noticed, is if it is big enough (>150k) it means the stock may move at the open. Usually the next prints is what hint at the direction. After a big print you almost instantly get some smaller (but still sizeable prints). The secondary prints is what I see giving hints of the direction. Usually you have a signal from them or no secondary prints and no signal. Today was unusual is we got a lot of prints but they were conflicting. First a really big print, so good we may move today. Then you see three bullish prints, then three bearish prints with the last one selling below the bid which is really uncommon. So this left me without a signal. So I waited. The price was dropping and at 40 seconds after the open I got my signal. Four large bearish prints, a L2 signal and all of T/S went red. This occurred the same time as the price just broke through its daily level at 184.24. So I went short with half shares. Yikes! I instantly lost over 50 cents on the fill. At least I was half shares so I wasn’t too stressed. The price retraced and I took the rest of my shares short as a standard 1min ORB as the price dropped below $184 with 5 more large bearish prints. My stop was the 184.36 PM level and I really didn’t have a good target. The next level was too far at 180.41, so I used 182 as my target. It felt like I partialed too much but I caught a 5R move and I made 2.7R. If I make at least half of the move that is good for me. I exited the trade when it made two HH/HLs on the 1min chart. Of course the price then reversed at went lower I first felt good about my one and done trade then I took 4 SIM trades and got stopped out on each one Score card (live trade). BABA 88% What I did good today: I focused on reading the tape. What I am grateful from today? I am grateful for having a good day back live. What do I need to improve on: I need to still work on those trades >15min from open.

I just finished listening to the NIKE podcast that Andrew recommended. They didn’t really mention too many steps on how to improve one’s sleep. I just went through a very successful sleep improvement program, so I thought I would list what worked for me. I will quickly mention where I am coming from. My daughter had serious sleep issues for her first few years. This forced me to get ~3-4 hours of sleep a night (not in a row) for a couple of years. I survived it but it left me sleeping like a cat and would wake up continuously all night long. Compounded was family/work limits my sleep to ~5.5-6 hours a night. I live in California so I wake up at 4:45am to get ready for the day and prepare for the market open. So I really need a good night sleep. In this list I won’t mention the obvious (caffeine, consistent sleep time, alcohol, stress, temperature). I also won’t mention the more holistic (grounding, meditation, message). I am listing in the order of impact it had to improving my sleep. 1) Where orange glasses when looking at a screen at night. Yes, it’s easy to say to reduce screen time at night, but realistically none of us can do that. I tried the blue light reduction app, but it didn’t make much difference. I bought $10 blue block glasses from Amazon and it made a world of difference. Actually I just continuously where them after the sun goes down to reduce all blue light exposure. I tried the more expensive ones (Swannies) but they break easy. 2) Where clear sunglasses when driving to work in the morning. I was brought up that you should where the darkest brown sunglasses whenever your outside. That’s obviously wrong. There is time for sunglasses and a time not to have them. This is a great way to get you Circadian cycle started on time. Again $10 Amazon for UV protective but clear sunglasses. I use them for my morning drive. Actually not only did it help my sleep, but really helps you wake up in the morning. Don’t worry you stop squinting in a few weeks. 3) Read this book: Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson. I have read a lot of books on sleep. This is by far the best. All but three of these tips that I am listing here are in his book. If you want a free Audiobook copy, send me your email. You are allowed to send a free audio book to anyone once from Amazon Audible. 4) Use a sleep tracking watch. By chance I bought a Garmin for running that happens to have a sleep tracker app. It made a huge difference. Most of these steps I took I could not feel the difference, but my watch would detect that it did. So I try a new habit each week and see if my watch detects anything. Once you add a few of these new habits together you then feel the difference. 5) Darken your bedroom. My daughter had poor night vision. So our house was filled with light at night. After reading the impact of nightlights on children’s vision I changed that. The house is dark now with blackout curtains. 6) Don’t take multi vitamins before bed. For decades that was exactly what I was doing. That was my normal regime. Take a vitamin and head to sleep. I was reading a book on genes and it just happen to mention, “and of course don’t take B vitamins near your bedtime since they are a stimulant.” I was totally shocked by this and stopped immediately. That really helped my sleep. 7) Walk don’t run. I love running, but I am also fond of walks and hiking. A recent study determined that walking induces better quality sleep than more vigorous exercise. So I now always walk at lunch and sometimes give up my evening run for a walk if I can convince a family member to come along (it’s usually my son). Hopefully you found this useful.

November 11, 2019 - $AMD and $IQ So the results of the Me vs. The Market after entering a trade are, "Market 2 Me 0." I say that because the market got the better of me today. I had two good setups on $JD and $AMD. I took an entry on $JD, got the move in my direction but not quite out to my 1R level. The stock pulled back and I eventually got out at a break above the high of the pre-market, although this was about 4 cents below my stop out level. after exiting the stock went back in my direction eventually hitting my 1R level and 2R. If I had stuck with my plan, would have be a +1.5R instead a -.63R. Then there was $AMD. I hesitated a little on the entry costing me about 2 cents on my entry, no big right. Well as you will see it was the difference between stopping out at break even and getting a 3R winner. I got the initial move to my 1R and covered. I then put in a range order for 75% out at 2R to let the last little bit ride to the PCL. Eventually the stock pop hard back to my break even and just as it was about to hit I realized I did not have a stop out that had my position. My range order filled stopping me out of 75% of my position and I quickly covered the rest with the hotkey. Of course, it came right to my break even point and reversed back in my direction. Had I not hesitated on the entry I would not have gotten stopped out and would have hit my profit target. Tough day today, but I walked walked away with a small loss after commissions and fees. I executed poorly causing me to leave money on the table. Better luck tomorrow. I plan on posting my yearly re-cap later tonight. I just need to finish the last few portions up. Sample Set Results, S P G E E P P P P G G P P P G P S P E P

08.Nov.19 Green day. +1r. I had 2 good setups, both after taking partials stopped me out. Could have been... Watchlist: $DIS, $TDC, $WKHS, $BIDU, $QCOM. Trade1: $ROKU. 3Bar play setup on 2min. After partial at daily level, didn't have the juice to popup higher, got the last partial out at BE. Trade2: $DIS. $DIS had strong earnings. I was long biased. Once $DIS formed double bottom, took it long. one partial out at 50MA(1min) then got stopped out at BE. $DIS had been bearish thru the day, so my trade ended up as Fading trade. Trade 3: $BIDU. Failed MA bounce, 50MA on 1min. Good: Two good setup, but both didn't work out for full r. Improvement: I am not using Kyle's hotkey always, sometimes I endup with less shares when I hardcode in the #of shares (like $DIS), so ended up the risk of 0.5r only. Also MA bounce setup isn't working out recently, most cases failed, need to optimize this or skip it for sometime. Overall happy about the trading today, although the daily goal doesn't reflect that.

Good Job..... I like your thought process.... Happy Green Day.....

My risk management plan is pretty similar too. Keeping the risk as a % of Capital is a good method. When the capital grows, the risk automatically increases (without the need to change 1%).

What a great meetup! I had tons of fun meeting everyone Let's start a BBT SF Chapter and meet every month or so?! .:Manuel

Thanks Mike..... This will be my new guide as this is the size of account I started CMEG with..... I do feel like if I can not make money with a 5K account then I can not do it with a larger account.... I was risking $50 with a $150 goal in SIM and it was going well, once I switched to Live and lowered my risk to $10 I was not treating it as serious as I was in the SIM account. I am not sure but I believe if I set my Kyles Hot Button for $17 with a promise to myself that if I can run a full week with my weekly goal hit I will increase slightly till I am at $50 risk then maybe this will force me to trade safely......