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3-4-20 This is the first week that I am trying some new things. With my lack of sleep because of my job I am falling into a trend where I get super fatigued once a month and get into a Mini Hulk day and on a weekly basis I am super tired and fatigued especially on Wed. and Thur. So on these two days I will sleep in and get a good rest to trade the afternoon market where in the past I have proven to be more profitable also. AIS 1200, 7 hours, 8/10 TGT PB#3 .... The downtrend had reversed on the 15 and 30Min. I took 3 partials and all out on first trade and reentered on a new ABCD on the 2min with a partial and all out on L2 and T&S action +4.5R AMD PB#3 trend scalps... these were all individual trades for Scalps in this choppy market... 2 winners 1 looser +1R Cons: None that I can think of right now Pros: Had a plan to scalp off of the L2 and T&S and stuck to it. PB Trade: TGT Rs: +5.6R

Trading is about probability. You could have 10 losses in a row, and it really doesn't mean anything or have anything to do with you. Most of the time it is just a crap market or low volume chop that does me in for the day. The best thing is to work on how to identify a high probability trade, and also a market that isn't good to trade in. If you can do this and execute properly you will be able to make money by avoiding the bad days. I think stopping at X stop outs just prolongs your learning time. Who knows, the next trade could have been your big winner.

I traded about a year with the rule, that if I was stopped out on my first trade I turn off my platform and walk away. I was not able to trade well after a stop. Now I am somewhat better. But I still have the rule two stop outs and I walk away and three trades max per day.

Updated: 8/8/2019 @ 12:44pm (PST) Finally out of the alpha stage and releasing this to the community, I've been using it with success. Because I had to do some musical chairs with memory I made a configuration utility as the script itself is very ugly. This is more of a BETA release for this, so if anyone wants to try this out in SIM and let me know if you have any issues with the configuration sheet or the hotkeys themselves. It's based on the work started by @fjmocke here: https://forums.bearbulltraders.com/topic/469-das-calculate-shares-based-on-account-risk/ . What it is: It's a hotkey command script that can be used to dynamically alter the share total based on: Available Buying Power (capital) Stop Location (Risk) % Account Risk OR Fixed Dollar Amount The script includes purchase power protection and won't send an order that you can not afford, it does this by calculating two factors: A - Shares You Can Afford B - Shares at Risk Parameter (e.g. $25,000 account equity, 1% risk = $250 risk, $250 * a stop distance of .10 = 2500 shares) min{A,B} = 0.5(A + B - | A - B | ) But, why male models? I just told you. /Zoolander reference You'd use this to calculate your share total based on what you're willing to risk. So instead of blindly throwing 500 shares at every setup, you can dynamically alter risked amount based on the per-trade setup. I use it on my StreamDeck (will also release the icon packs soon) with modifiers of 100%, 75%, 50%, and 25%. 100% is the A-Plus setups I see, those I have HIGH confidence in. Alternatively, if a stock has a large spread or is low-float, I may only use the 25% modifier key for those. Instructions for Configuration: Go to this link: V2.1: DOWNLOAD ^^ Recommend latest DAS version of 5.4.3.0. Requires DAS version 5.2.0.34 or above (current BETA branch as of 11/19/2018) for the physical stop portion to work. If you don't use the physical stop, you don't have to worry about it. NOTE: Thoroughly test in SIM to make sure it's doing what you expect it to do. Choose: Download the ZIP file and unzip to where you want. On "Setup & Instructions" configure your settings. Account Leverage (default for DAS is 4), this is the margin your broker gives you. Some off-shores give 6. It needs to match what is configured in DAS for proper calculations. Max Account Risk %. This is the maximum percent of equity you're willing to risk on every trade (default is 1%). You can always risk lower (more on that later). % of Total Buying Power. If you don't want to calculate based on the total buying power of 100%, you can set this to a lower percentage (example: 100,000 buying power with 60% here equals $60,000 maximum position size) Route. LIMIT, MARKET, SMRTL. Default is LIMIT. Order Bid/Ask Offset. This is the offset you use when you send the price for order, e.g. "Ask + 0.05" (meaning fill me up to 5 cents above ask) Time in Force. Default: Day+ Default Shares. This is the amount of shares you want to set as the DEFAULT SHARES for all trades (e.g. when you click a Symbol and it loads, this is the share total). You can see why this is here in the technical breakdown section below. Minimum Stop Buffer. This is an offset to the stop distance. If you set this to 0.05, it'll add 5 cents to the stop distance calculation (so if your stop distance is 0.05, it'll be calculated on 0.10). Switch to the "Hotkeys" tab. Choose your preferred style. % Risk of Equity (Dynamic) or Fixed Price (e.g. $150 risk). %Equity Risk: Use the drop down to select what you want the value to be % equity. NOTE: This is a modifier AFTER your account risk maximum %. So if you have 1% account risk, and set this to 50%, your effective account risk is 0.005 --> 0.5%. $ Fixed: Use the drop down to select what you want the value to be for dollar risk. Select "long" or "short" to flip the script's direction. Click the cell that contains the start of the command (E column) and Ctrl + C (copy). Paste it into DAS. It should look like a sample command below. Instructions for Usage: First, you must have "Double Click to Trade" turned on in Chart, Right-Click --> Configure --> Settings --> Double-click to trade. Double click the chart where you want to set a mental stop (it does not place a stop order, you can always put one in after). Hit your configured hotkey. Sample Scripts: LONG: DefShare=BP*0.98; Share=DefShare*0.25* Price * 0.01; Price = Ask - Price + 0.02;SShare = Share / Price; Share = DefShare - SShare; DefShare = DefShare + SShare; SShare = Share; SShare = DefShare - SShare; Share = 0.5 * SShare; TogSShare; ROUTE =LIMIT; Price = Ask + 0.05; TIF=DAY+; BUY=Send; DefShare = 500; SHORT: DefShare=BP*0.98; Share=DefShare*0.25* Price * 0.01; Price = Price - Bid + 0.02;SShare = Share / Price; Share = DefShare - SShare; DefShare = DefShare + SShare; SShare = Share; SShare = DefShare - SShare; Share = 0.5 * SShare; TogSShare; ROUTE =LIMIT; Price = Bid - 0.05; TIF=DAY+; SELL=Send; DefShare = 500; Technical Breakdown: DAS has basic scripting. Montage commands have access to very few read/write variables, basic operations, and only operators of addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. To do this calculation we need additional operators (min function, and absolute function) and more memory for storage of variables. This command gets around these limitations by using user-writeable areas of memory in the program. Since DAS is written in the C++ language (from what I can tell), it's strict on what can be done in these existing memory locations. The hotkey uses the following items (plus the usual Price -- FLOAT): (Assumptions on Datatypes) DefShare -- INT (Used as a temporary variable for storage) SShare -- Unsigned INT (Behaves like an Unsigned INT in certain situations. Used as a temporary variable for storage) Share -- INT (Used as a temporary variable for storage) With the 3 INT variables, objects are moved around in memory so that we can calculate and compare with our variable limitation (be much easier if we could assign our own). To facilitate the ABS() function, we use a trick --> When a negative value is placed into an Unsigned INT it loses it's sign (thus, it becomes a POSITIVE value in memory). A more detailed technical breakdown (step by step) is located in the Configuration spreadsheet up above. Future Enhancements: If need be, I can make a step-by-step video of this entire process. I have a version that uses an AutoHotKey macro to drop a line at the stop location, I can upload that as well if people want it. ^^ Update, I discontinued this as it was too cumbersome. You had to have two sets of hotkeys for each command. I may someday revisit it if I can build out a configuration tool for it. TLDR: It does the math for you so you can risk a known amount (% or $) based on your per-trade risk position (stop distance). And yes, I'm a bit of a tech nerd. Also, longest post .. ever. Would not read again, 0/5 stars. --- KNOWN ISSUES: %Account Risk gets smaller and smaller when subsequent open positions Reason: No Equity variable, we reverse calculate equity using Buying Power. On subsequent positions, the % (e.g. 1%) calculation will be based on the available buying power and NOT the account equity. Workaround: Precalculate the %risk and use it for the $risk versions. So 1% of $25,000 equity equals $250. SSR rejection on LONG position when scaling out; rejection message (e.g. "Short marketable limit order disable due to SSR!") if using the automatic STOP trigger. Reason: DAS calculates that the position will drop below the open stop order position and reject as this can cause the position to "flip" if it was triggered. Workaround: Have a hotkey to clear the open orders (CXL ALLSYMB), clear it, scale the position (e.g. 25%). Either replace the stop or switch to a mental stop. Alternatively, you can add "CXL ALLSYMB;" to the front of the scale-out hotkeys. You just have to be cognizant to replace the stop order. Equated position size if very small (e.g. 4 or 5 shares when expected is hundreds). Reason: Wrong side was used for the order. E.g. a long hotkey is used when trying to go short. -or- Stop Distance was calculated to be a negative value (clicked too close to current price). Workaround: Be cognizant of the hotkeys used and the stop distance clicked. Clicking too close (a really tight stop) can be very dangerous if you do it inadvertently. TriggerOrder for automatic STOP placement not being sent (no stop order placed). Reason: Montage is not set to a style that doesn't allow TriggerOrder input. Styles not compatible are: Default [DAS's, if you changed it], Basic, OCO, Option, Full Fix: Use a style that is compatible, they are: Stop Order, Detail, Trigger -- I recommended using the "Stop Order" montage style. To change this, right click the montage area around where you'd enter a price and select Style --> Your Choice. --- UPDATES: 10/17/2018 - Added v.1.1 link, you'd need to use the new version to change anything. - General cleanup of the script. Added instructions for the IB issue (discussed in this thread) - NEW FEATURE: Added a new section to the Hotkeys sheet, it will now create a set up for Dynamic Scale-In hotkey commands. You'd use these by setting a scale value (say you want an additional 50% of your current position size). The hotkey will calculate the maximum share you can afford (how much you can afford at the moment) and the scale value, choosing to take the least amount. So if your current position is 1500 shares (@ $50.00) and you want to scale in at 50% your current position, it'd check if you can afford an additional 750 shares, if you can't, it'll buy the maximum you can afford. For this example, you can't afford it (if Buying Power is 100k), so it'd buy roughly $25k worth (500 shares). - CLEANUP: Cleaned up the $Dollar Risk version and removed unnecessary steps. Don't really need to replace yours if they exist, but worth noting. 10/30/2018 - Added @Michael P's suggested fixes for Excel. Configuration tool should now work in both Sheets and Excel. - NOTICE: This was a configuration tool change, no changes were made to the hotkey scripts, so no need to change any existing hotkeys. 11/19/2018 - Shortened some of the commands so we don't hit any hotkey character limit, makes them less readable, but shorter. Couldn't get them low enough to fit the montage buttons though (although removing the portions for the buying power rejection protection would likely do it). - Added a section for SELL/COVER buttons for people who just need to create those. E.g. "Sell 25% position" or "Sell 33% position". - Added @Robert H's stop suggestion. New fields on the setup page for enabling physical stops. If enabled, it'll place a MARKET or LIMIT (settings included) trigger order to go into the market once the initial order is fulfilled, these are placed at the location you double-clicked on the chart. 11/20/2018 - Added a stop-order setting to set an additional buffer for the stop price (for those that want to include or exclude the double-clicked price). - Added conditional formatting to subdue the stop settings that aren't required if you disable sending a physical stop into the market. 12/10/2018 - Added a known issues section to this post and the spreadsheet (for when a new version goes up). 12/12/2018 - Updated known issues section to include the "Montage Style" issue for TriggerOrders. 12/13/2018 - Updated to new version 1.46. Fixed a bug in the Trigger Order script which could cause it to not be interpreted by DAS's command parser on certain user settings. - Added "modifier" extra hotkeys. See instructions next to these on how to use them. - - - Set Stop to Breakeven - Long or Short - Stop Limit or Stop Market (cancels any pending orders for SYMB) - - - Set Stop to Breakeven - Bidirectional - Stop Market (cancels any pending orders for SYMB) - - - Stop - Update Price - Long or Short - Stop Limit or Stop Market (cancels pending orders, double click chart where you want stop before firing hotkey) - - - Stop - Update Price - Bidirectional - Stop Market (cancels pending orders, double click chart where you want stop before firing hotkey) - - - Stop - Update Position - Long or Short - Stop Limit or Stop Market - Replace (requires you double-click the original stop in the Orders window) - - - Stop - Update Position - Bidirectional - Stop Market Orders Only - Replace (requires you double-click the original stop in the Orders window). 8/8/2019 - New version 2.0, download the .zip file and unzip it. - Fixed an issue with some hotkey configurations that may have caused them to be inaccurate in vary rare situations. Recommend recreating your hotkeys in this new version, just to be sure. - Added Profit Target hotkeys. - Added % Scale-In Hotkeys - Added $ Risk Scale-In Hotkeys - Added Short-SSR to Long/Short dropdown for SSR hotkeys (DAS Simulator) - Added Range Order hotkeys - Added Y-Margin Scale Increase hotkey, Y-Margin Decrease, and Y-Margin Reset - Added new sheet "Example - Equity%" and "Example - $Risk" to give a more workflow outlook on what is happening. - Included a ScaleOut worksheet to manually simulate what different scale percentages / scenarios look like (instructions will be in the video). ALSO: Video is done and rendering, I think it comes in at 45minutes with 3.4gigs (4k), so it'll need to be optimized before I upload it to YouTube. Will try to do it today and will update this when done. 9/10/2019 - New version 2.1 released. Just general clean up (UI) and bug fixes. - FIXED: Issue with the Scale-In $Risk hotkeys. - FIXED: Issue with the Stop Update Price long and short hotkeys> ^^ If you use either of those, please regenerate them and replace in your DAS to avoid issues. UPDATES: The majority of this side project is completed and besides a few requests I have in with DAS developers to optimize a few things, out of any major bugs or improved scripting features, I'd say this is about done. I'll provide any edge-case support as need, but I want to move on to other BBT-community projects. So what do I have cookin' for you guys, gals, and cat? You'll see a glimpse in the video of an early prototype (buggy! I programmed that in a few hours, so bugs are expected) of a DAS calculator side program. The newer version (need to finish the UI) will incorporate a lot more in ways of tools for you, including automatically calculating changes without a hotkey intervention. It also allows you to mass-process trade log .csv files you may have exported and compile it into Excel or .CSV for import into other programs. Configuration is drag/drop friendly, so rearranging your columns is as easy as click and holding. I'm also going to shift my attention to finishing my ORB-strategy research. Right now, my datapool encompasses 15000 news article, gaplists for 2011-2019, and 1second data for stocks in that range. It's a data store of roughly 80 gigs. The idea is to test for hidden signals we may not see that can indicate a potential direction of an ORB strategy (if no rare outside influence occurs, like a terrorist attack) by leveraging a consortium of machine learning algorithms to give us a higher probability of success for each day. Depending how the research works out, the end product would likely be a probability predictor for each day. I'll share the research results with the community and may incorporate some other tests as well. VIDEO: Ok, so I may have gone down an editing rabbit hole and that took longer than expected. The videos are up, came in quite long so I chunked it down. Sorry it's a tad scattered and not one-linear cohesive unit, but I tried to mark it up as best as possible. Part 1 - Config / Math - https://youtu.be/YrRrydwGyRY Part 2 - Setup, Quick Examples, Tips - https://youtu.be/pXLlWF7T6hw Part 3 - Sim Trade Example - https://youtu.be/SO9UhJh4dTc Bonus 1 - Scale/Price Excel Calc - https://youtu.be/KTr_iJ2p0TU Bonus Tips - https://youtu.be/sNHXFMoia7A

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March 5 $MU and $CCL Well in the morning I was not really into it as I slept really bad and was focused on external things, so I was quite sure if I wanted to trade the open. I eventually decided that it was worth trading but I was too slow on inputting the entry for $AMD. I watched for a little longer as the market continued to rise and then went to drop off my daughter. I came back and noticed the market was near the high of days, so I started looking for some stocks to take to the downside. I got in on $MU and a little later got into $CCL. My goal for the day was accomplished. Manage two positions at the same time. I ended up getting partials on both of them. Later I tried to take $JD to the long side but was again slow on the entry. It had to been the sleep last night.

Today was another max loss day. If anyone would like to point out which technical mistakes I made, I would appreciate it. I battle with entries. Do I enter where stop will be tightest, or enter with more confirmation. Example, CVS I almost entered on 4th candle as soon as it crossed back above VWAP, instead I waited until it moved above prior two candles and MA. In this trade it ended up not mattering much anyway because the stock didn't continue up. CCL Too far from VWAP on first entry? Entry two, should have waited for it to get to VWAP to see what happened? Trade 3 Good? AMD.1 I thought this was a good trade? Should I have entered again on the 2nd fail above VWAP? I wonder if I should switch back to SIM until I get some confidence back, I feel like I'm trading better, but the results are the same, max daily loss.

3-2-20 , 3-3-20 Was having issues getting into the new forum Monday and Tuesday were bad days for me. On Monday I took Live trades outside of my PB#3 and had a -3.4R day On Tuesday I did limit myself to PB#3 trades Live but got chopped up for -2.2R Charts are below. I did journal these charts in Tradervue Pros and COns Listed above and in TRADERVUE Rs: -5.6

Wednesday 03/04/2020 I had a well-being score of 7/10 this morning. Feeling better. I took 1 live trade this morning with AAPL. My watchlist: AMD, AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, UNH, and JD. AAPL was really respecting a 296.79 level as it traveled alomg VWAP for awhile in PM. The plan was to go long on the break of the level which occurred 2 minutes before the open. I got a terrible fill but I used a small share size waiting if I could get a better entry and I did for the rest of my shares. My target was the HOPM with the 50MA-1min as my stop. Soon after the open volume hit and a mild pop where I took a partial. Then a large ask sat at $298. Instead of waiting for the price to reach it and punch through I took another partial when the large ask became the current ask. I don’t think I have done that before at the open. Some times on my swing trades I will do that so I am not sure what I was thinking. Then the price broke through and reached my target where I did get a partial. Then luckily I got a good fill at B/E when I exited. What did I do good today? Good use of levels. What I am grateful from today? Good L2 signal.

Day 39 - Mar 23 2020 16 Tickets 3 Symbols Green Day AMD - Long - 1min - VWAP Tend Trade Watching AMD as thinking overall market could continue its bounce higher. Had a nice bounce off PML on the 5 min chart, ended up taking this long once it bounced and held off VWAP. R/R wasn’t great here - more of a scalp trade. Ended up taking half off on spike to pre market levels, and left my stop on at just below VWAP - stopped me out but stopped out my initial full size so I sold the extra. Improvement: Need to be taking better R/R setups - this is a 1R - terrible. TGT (Trade #1) - Short - 1min - Breakdown Overall short biased on revenue miss. Opened weak and couldn’t hold VWAP, missed the initial VWAP rejection. Was watching for the retest to 109 previous day close, with short and stop above VWAP but it rejected the push up and broke down so I shorted on the breakdown for quick scalp on half into pre market level and adjusted stop to break even on other half. Good idea, just didn’t play how I wanted it to play out so scalping. TLRY (Trade #1) - Long - 1min - Breakout Pullback (Chasing) Watching TLRY with short biased from poor earnings, but caught a bid at the open. Was waiting for potential double top with expectation of it coming back to 13. Got too excited as Fed cut rates saw AMD have a huge spike, for some reason thought we could see this test HOD so got in for a quick scalp. Instantly realized this was an absolutely brutal entry with bad R/R so adjusted my stop and got out. Improvement: Had the right idea of waiting for double top and noted it in my journal to keep an eye out and target at 13 - emotions got in the way and ended up going long where I should have been shorting. DOUBLE TOP AS EXPECTED! TGT (Trade #2) - Short - 1min + 5min - ABCD (Reverse) TGT came up as market shot up on news that Fed cut rates by 50pts, rally was short lived and started selling off with wicks to the top - bearish. Short TGT on reverse ABCD with stop just above VWAP (1/2R auto risk hotkey) expectation to add on breakdown, target at previous bounce level. First partial just over 1R with rest to ride. Good: Good execution, followed game plan of taking partials into the level, and then taking some at profit target. Improvement: Looking back at it this would have been a perfect play to size up much much more. Negative catalyst, failed rally on fed cut and followed daily levels perfectly - rejection of 110.5 TLRY (Trade #2) - Long - 1min - VWAP Trend Trade Waited for this to play out, short biased on negative catalyst just needed a decent entry. Ended up going short on the pop into VWAP expecting this to sell off throughout the day. Had to run to work so left a range order for previous level of Premarket level of 13.15 in front the heavy support at 13. Ended up doing exactly as I though - came up to VWAP a few times (opportunity to add if I was at the screens) and sold off right into my profit target) Good: Leaving range order while at work allows my idea to play out, without me micro managing the trade Improvement: Didn’t use my auto risk hotkey - inconsistent sizing which minimized my profits. Todays Review Slowly getting better in thought process and being able to recognize good setups, however still taking poor setup plays. Thinking once I get some more stats in my journal and able to pick apart winners / losers based on specific setups, time of day this will give me probabilities and W/L ratios which I can work from. Eliminating the bottom half, and perfecting the ones I am doing well on. This new website has made it tough for me to post trades....chrome not letting me sign in and vew forums as a member, and internet explorer not letting me copy and paste. Will edit and add photos once this is figured out. What I did poorly: Inconsistent sizing (which is no longer acceptable, as I have hotkeys that legit do this all for me.) What I need to do: Master hotkeys for Risk management in order to eliminate the variability. Notice a lot of my solid setups arnt sized properly, and a few of my losers end up taking a lot of my profits away due to poor sizing.

Update about last week, in which I was supposed to work on my over trading problem. Failed the first 4 days, hit my max daily loss each day. On Friday I only took 4 trades and ended the day green......Imagine that! This week has not started out any better as far as outcome, but I am happier with my number of trades. I am not revenge trading in hopes that a move will happen. I have also lowered my daily loss, my account is already down 40% after three and a half weeks. Here are my trades today. $TGT, was strong heading into the open. I was looking for a 1,5minORB-Up, which obviously didn't happen. After seeing the stock try to fall below PCL and 200MA on 1 min, I waited for the stock to pass VWAP and continue higher. My first entry 110.00 was stopped out 109.82 in one second, I can't recall if the spread was that big, or if I clicked KylesHotKey too close to price action. 2nd try was when I thought it broke through my premarket level at 110.34, it failed and stopped out 109.80 below VWAP again. I had Aimen review in classroom today, he pointed out the stock was weak, and was actually a reverse ABCD, I went long at the C which was also resistance. I thought the 11th candle was a retest of a level and an indication the stock would gain momentum when it went through VWAP again. 12th candle closed above VWAP, so I entered long with a stop below VWAP. This VWAP play should probably be used later in the day and not the open when the direction is still in question. $MSFT, I thought the 200MA on the 5 was going acting as support, so I looked for an entry to catch the move back to VWAP. When the price crossed the MA and the PML (red dotted line) I thought it was headed back and entered 171.05, stopped out almost immediately 170.81. Tried again at 170.98 and was stopped out at 170.53. Both of the above trades, I went long into resistance, I need to work on this problem. $INO, was just a trade I chased after Andrew entered. I entered 5.20 and I got out 5.23 when I realized I should not have just followed Andrew without analyzing the trade myself. $CCL, I was watching it consolidate around the PML, I was long biased on this stock pre market, daily looked good also. It shot up as the FED announced rate cut, I watched the doji form after the run and entered 33.34 when the next candle made a high. It failed and went to my stop 33.04 below PCL. I have figured out that if my first trade doesn't go well, I get discouraged. If my first trade goes well, I relax and trade better. It's difficult to forget the first wrong trade and focus on finding a good setup after that. This is something I will also work on. I know being wrong is part of trading, but I guess I still haven't excepted it deep down, and embraced it.

Unintentional No trade day today. I got back in the afternoon too late to catch the moves to the downside. Too bad, there were some nice setups all over the place. I was very short bias, so I was not looking for any longs near the lows, instead I was looking for short setups and well they just didn't appear, so I ended up sitting on the sidelines all day.

Tuesday 03/03/2020 I had a well-being score of 6/10 this morning. Still a bit under the weather. I took 3 live trades this morning with AAPL and AMD. My watchlist: AMD, AAPL, TGT, TSLA, AAL, and DIS. I felt like I traded the same as yesterday. I took a PM trarde where I exited just before it popped. Then took two trades at the open where I got one partial then S/O at B/E. AAPL was consilidating in PM after a nice white candle. I was waiting for the break of 301.50, but a L2 signal triggered the entrance before then. My target was 304 with a stop of 301. I took two partials and the price was consolidating. And just like yesterday I was spooked out before the pop to my target. After the open AAPL dropped 1% on strong volume but found good support. When the price rose and broke all of the 5 tech levels I went long. My target was 305 and stop of 301. I got one partial in and then out at B/E. AMD seemed to be respcted VWAP right from the open creating a support level. It looked like the price was stepping higher. I went long at the break of HOPM. My target was $50 with VWAP as my stop. But the daily level at 49.44 was in the way so I knew I better take a quick partial. My first partial was filled at B/E. My seconds try and a partial was filled fine. Then I set an auto stop at B/E. The fill had a enough slide that this trade was slightly in the red. What did I do good today? Good risk management. Which is important since I am taking risky trades. What I am grateful from today? Even with two failing trades and one that worked but I bailed too early I am still green for the day.

Monday 03/02/2020 I had a well-being score of 5/10 this morning. A bit under the weather. I took 3 live trades this morning with CCL, AAPL and AMD. My watchlist: AMD, AAPL, JD, TSLA, TWTR, and CCL. CCL was forming a nice ABCD in PM with resistance level at 32.33. The price broke with a L2 signal and I went long with $33 as my target and a tight stop at 32.20. After 5 minutes I took a partial then 2 minutes later the volume completely stopped and I was spooked out of the trade. I should have just reduced my share size instead. I did miss the pop to almost my target, but Ok with the trade. I need to be cautious in the PM. AAPL was being squeezed right before the open near a daily level. I went long, with a small share size, when it bounce from the support. The plan was to buy more at the break of the resistance level around 282. It broke that level and I instinctively took a partial. Then I gathered my senses and added in. Target was the HOPM (orange dash line) with a stop at 281.50. Right before the open I took a partial just incase the price dropped at the open. The price popped up and I took a large partial what I though was near the $284 and thought I was done for the day. Then saw my fill was over a dollar lower. Then I exited, luckily at B/E, due to wild price variations. AMD made a nice hammer on large volume at the open. I went long at the break of the 47.34 daily level. I took a partial at the 47.50 PM level and then another partial at the candle high. Then set my stop at B/E where I exited with a little slippage. Very soon after it looked like a good short, but I was already at my 3 trade max. What did I do good today? Good risk management. I took risky trades but was very cautious with them. What I am grateful from today? Though my three winners were all small they added up to an OK day. Updated my DAS platform. I like how they showed their order like Etrade Pro does with a line at the price. Before I would get an open triangle not remotely near the order price.

Hi Jordan, I will not be able to make it to the meetup after all. My wife's grandfather is sick and we'll need to visit with him this weekend. Sorry that I'm gonna miss it, I hope to see you all at the next one though!

Wednesday 02/26/2020 I had a well-being score of 6/10 this morning. I took 3 live trades this morning with MRNA and GILD. My watchlist: AMD, GILD, MRNA, BABA, ZM, and DIS. I liked DIS and MRNA in the PM. Because of that I happen to have DIS on my montage when MRNA passed my long trigger point of 27.35. I quickly switched MRNA to my montage and went long, only to be filled a dollar above my trigger. But the price did move higher still, so I stayed in the trade. The price did actually reach my target (HOPM) I did get some partials in but kept 25% for the open, but had an autostop at B/E. I was stopped out very quickly after the open for a small win. GILD made a nice opening hammer with good volume and had a L2 signal. I went long with a tight stop of VWAP with HOPM as the target. What GILD looked like when I took the trade (note the ask at 71.50): I took a quick partial than set an autostop for B/E which it was touched and filled and bounced and went higher. L2 looked even better so I went long again and the price instantly dropped and I was stopped out to the penny before the price spent the next 4 minutes going higher and reaching my target. What did I do good today? Good risk management. I kept to a small red day. What I am grateful from today? Three lousy trades and only being down -1/3R for the day. I will be unable to trade tomorrow, and possibly unable on Friday as well. So today could be the last day of the month for me. I haven't looked at my total P/L for the month yet. First time I will have looked in 3 months. I did give myself permission to look at the end of this month and at the end of each session. (That was off limits the previous 2 months). It definitely feels like a record month for me and I will be able to analyze my trades again so I will post a monthly recap. If I don't trade again this month I wish everyone a good finish to February!!

January 13 - 18 recap, This year I decided that I would post my weekly recap analysis in addition to my daily journal postings. Near the end of the year I felt I was not giving due diligence to the weekly and monthly analysis, so in an effort to keep myself accountable I figured I would post them in this journal. Top Three Good Trends While in the trade, I did have any issue with sticking to my profit taking plan. Whenever, I began feeling that mind was racing towards justifying why something would not work out, my mantra of discipline, courage, impartiality, patience worked well to calm my emotions. Although, I gave into my FOBW a couple of times this week, I also faced it head on and conquered it. I have to remember, that you cannot pick and choose which setups are going to work or not work. It is random and the only thing you can do it take the entry when the setup appears if it meets your edge. Currently, my edge has a higher probability of working; therefore, take the trade and move on. My ability to recognize my emotions is improving, even though I was not able to catch myself sabotaging my exits before they occurred, afterwards I was able to recognize them and have begun developing a process to prevent it in the future. Bottom Three Bad Trends I was not confident on my entry and sticking with my pre trade routine and execution. I had a lot of hesitation on the entry because of a feeling of being wrong. I had several montage entry issues this week. I would enter the wrong number or flip the numbers. I need to come up with a smooth executable process for executing the entry of the price. This also goes for the excel worksheet which determines the outs My emotions right near the entry point truly ramp up and my mind starts to focus more on the reason not to be in the trade instead of the reason to be in the trade. Focus Areas Next week My psychology right before the entry Self-Sabotaging acts Stop loss placement and why I am choosing that area for a stop loss