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11-11-19 AIS 0800 with 4 hours... 5/10..... Normal Morning Routine PAT: Only use Limited Risk Hot Buttons...... Only A or A+ setups...... Live only Trades..... Trades only from Playbook.... Respect my Daily Stop Loss...... Notes: Remember to read my Weekly Notes..... Stick to my plan to increase size next week..... SPWR Reason2Trade Q earn. beat and rev. up, Splitting into 2 public stocks, looking for long with a 33% Short float..... PB#1.... A setup, took 1/2 size..... 10min ORB, made an ABC but I did not wait for a new high, took this on a big pullback so I thought and was listening to Andrew as this is where he added to his position..... L2 was just OK with ASKs on the way up to .65 / .68 / .72 / .80 ...... 2.5/1 ....... Hit my hard stop.... Room for improvement..... I am not and have not been very good at ORBs, I believe I will take these out of my playbook for now..... -8.48 CLVS Reason2Trade on 11-8 Q reports loss with mixed earn/rev and the RVOL for today was 8.39 PB#3..... A setup leading into an A+, took 1/2 size and added up to full size..... Tending the 9ema on the 5min and using the 2min for entry and risk..... I waited for it to break the 200ma along with the daily of 5.41 that I had marked PM as confirmation... It pulled back within a penny and came back down where I added in to full size with a second confirmation only to get stopped out... This was a 2/1 trade with 5.01 as my target which 4.99 was my next daily level.... Room for improvement.... I am not too sure where I could do this better for me..... Maybe I should not have been in this trade as all these levels were not close enough to the 9ema..... looking back at previous trades like this most have worked out for me.... I could have taken a partial at .25 which would have been a 1/1 and all out at BE instead of waiting for the add..... in my SIM trading where things were going well I almost always took full size and took partials quickly.... -15.90 SQ Reason2Trade SQ was called out in the Chat, on 11-7 it had Strong Q results and the RVOL was 2.2..... PB#3..... A setup (a bit extended for an A+), took full size.... Trending the 9ema on the 2min with this being the third touch, I feel like the entry was good with lots of ASKs on the L2 all the way up and very little BIDs within a min or so the action took a bad turn and ended up stopping me out.... I did use my hot button for a $17 stop but I believe this is the first experience with bad slippage... Room for improvement..... This was a bit extended and was fast, I should have waited for a consolidation around the 9ema before considering a trade..... during the trade I seen the action going against me and instead of exiting early I let it go to my hard stop.... -20.78 Cons: I jumped the gun on SPWR and SQ..... I should have went with my gut on the exit of SQ.... Pros: I did respect my in trade Stop loss.... Favorite Trade: CLVS PB#3 Notes: I will not take PB#1 (ORB) setups for the rest of the week..... I can defiantly improve with my selections, remember I have most of the day to trade not just the morning... P&L Goal $50: -45.16

November 12, 2019 $AMRN Well I failed misserably at getting my yearly recap done yesterday. I had to take care of some personal issues that came up in the afternoon, so I will look at getting it done today and posting it. I had a good watchlist for the open. $DXC, $AMRN, and $TME. I failed miserably on saying focused as a setup was generating. As the pull back on $AMRN was happening I wondered off and was looking at $TME. By the time I came back to $AMRN, I had missed my entry. Ironically, while looking $TME, I missed the short entry because I went back to $AMRN to see how the setup was doing. by the time I looked back at $TME, well you guess it I missed the entry. So it was a rough morning. I then started looking over my normal watch list and say $NVDA setting up around 1025, but just missed the entry. After that I called it a morning and decided I would come back after the President was done speaking for the day. Well, I found $AMRN with a nice ascending pattern around the same time Thor was trading it to the short side. I was looking to take it long once it broke through 20.35. I got my entry and nice pop right away. Took a partial at 1R and then set my range order for break even and 3R along with another limit order for 2R. Eventually I got stopped out at break even before the stock decided to make it move to the high of the day. As this is my last trade in this sample set, I think I am going to look at the % I take off at 1R. Looking back over the last couple months the percentage of 1R trades is pretty high. Sample Set Results, S P G E E P P P P G G P P P G P S P E P P

11-12-19 AIS 0810, 4 hours, 5/10...... normal routine.... PAT: Wait for setup and do not anticipate...... Go with my gut during the trade..... Notes: I am done with ORBs for the week and if I break this rule I must go back to SIM...... Be more specific on my setups..... Well when I was in the middle of this one trade my DAS decided to stop working and I am still building a new layout (its 1420 now) AMRN Reason2Trade This Biotech Just Gapped Up As FDA Mulls A Second Use For Its Medicine Shares of Amarin rise on favorable opinion from FDA committee RVOL over 3.0 at time of trade with a 35% Short Float PB#2 turned into PB#3...... A setup on entry.... as this went down I was looking for an opportunity to get in on the Short Squeeze... I waited for it to break VWAP for an entry of 1/4 size and added another 1/4.... took 50% off then another 25% at BE to reduce risk, added in yet again 1/4 but a little late and all out at BE.... the second trade was 1/2 size and a trend of the 9ema on the 2min took profit and all out on my phone as my DAS stopped working..... My R/R on the first was below VWAP and HOPM and on the second trade it was below the 20ema on the 2min and HOPM.... both of these were in excess of 2/1 ..... Room for improvement..... If I trusted myself more I would have been in .10 earlier on the first trade...... I should have took profit when it hit HOPM and my goal (I was a little preoccupied as my DAS was starting to give me problems here..... +14.35 Cons: None that I can think of now... Pros: Took the setup that was planned before the open.... Favorite Trade: AMRN Notes: Maybe start scaling up back to 1/2 size for A setups and full size for A+ setups P&L Goal $50: +14.35

Tuesday 11/12/2019 I had a well-being score of 7/10 this morning. A big rule breaking day today, will be back on SIM tomorrow. I took 2 live trade this morning. Broke rules on both and was stopped out on both for a -2R day. The last time I had a rule breaking day I was down -15R in under a minute, so I guess I survived today with less damage. After my two trades I had to quickly shut off my platform and walk away. Rules broken today: 1) I did not complete PM checklist. I did not perform my morning reading through my list of rules and trading plan before the open. 2) Do not trade AAPL with a 1min ORB. I did and was stopped out. 3) Do not trade full share size when taking a trade <1min. I went full share size on AAPL. 4) When a bad fill makes your R/R<1 then exit the trade. I got a bad fill on BABA (which is not uncommon). I stayed in the trade. 5) After any partial profit, bring stop back to B/E. I had my mouse on the B/E stop hot key but couldn’t get myself to press it so I was stopped out at -0.8R instead. Plan for the rest of the week: SIM on Wednesday Break no rules. This needs to be completely flawless. My rule breaking has been poor in November and certain rules have always been bad. It is time to correct that. I will not move on until breaking a rule feels completely foreign to me. Score card and P/L are now meaningless. Making a good trade is now completely based on following rules. If I take B minus setup and partial too much, but followed my rules, then it is a good trade. I have no discretionary rules. Like only take A setups. That is too subjective. My rules are very clear cut. So I can still have a rule following but sloppy trade. Until I get this following rules issue fixed, that will be a satisfactory trade. If I am down -100R by the end of the month, but followed my rules, it was a good month. If I instinctively follow my rules it will be easy to adjust my trading for better profits later. I need to finish my training plan for the the next 12 months. After my big rule breaking day last week I have stopped working on it and tried to deal with the tactical planning instead of strategic. I will post the plan soon. I realize now I need to simplify it. If I have a solid rule following day on SIM I can trade live the next day. Break any rule, back on SIM the next day.

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

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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.

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%).

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Well that was a success for such last minute! Thought we'd have 6 or 8 but had about 20 people show up! Just goes to prove what an amazing community @Andrew Aziz has put together! Even in a community you may think you're trading alone and disconnected, but there are people just around the block to connect with! Looking forward to seeing the pictures

Tuesday September 10th, 2019 Sleep: 7.5 hours. Mood: good ready to trade. First trade was a wedge on CTRP (2/4). as soon as i got in, i realized i chase it and then i got out before my stop. also didn't have a profit target that made sense. GOOD: got out before stop RFI: chased the entry MOOD: ok CONSISTENT: yes it held all those levels and looked like it was going higher so i got in long again. realized i made the same mistake and got out around my stop (0/4). GOOD: got out RFI: don't take the same trade again unless it gives a clear signal MOOD: angry for taking the same trade again. CONSISTENT: got out at stop i was pretty frustrated with myself, looking at pretty much 2R loss 10 minutes in to the trading day, wishing i was in SIM and not live. looked down at my trade log and noticed i was in sim! forgot i switched my montage over to sim yesterday. it became clear that this was turning in to a descending wedge in CTRP (3/4) so i got in on the short side risking a new 2min high. bought 75% at about 2R, which was a mistake, i meant to buy 25%. then another piece at 3R, one bad buy seconds before another down move. got all out at the moving averages on the daily. GOOD: setup, R/R, risk level RFI: selling MOOD: good CONSISTENT: yes. What i did good today: took a nice short when i saw the long wasn't working What i did bad today: still FOMO trying breakouts that aren't working What can i do better tomorrow: take better setups.