Thursday 04/16/2020 I had a well-being score of 6.5/10 this morning. Another day I didn't feel myself and felt no discipline. I guess last Wednesday was not a fluke. I need some time off. It has been a month now with the "Shelter-in-place" and my work has evolved into 7 days a week. I have been recently lax with my meditation and other self coaching activities, so I will strengthen those first. I will force myself to take 2 days off a week from work. I will not open my platform tomorrow. If I open my platform next week it will be SIM only. If I don't see any improvement I may be in SIM for the rest of the month. I don't usually journal my SIM trades on line so you won't be seeing much of me in the near future. Good luck to everyone. Trade safe. Stay safe.

Thought I would share my journal template with those interested. It's still a work in progress and I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Each day I capture the DAS Trades log and closed P/L. Also add a few notes about emotions, health, state of mind, etc. Then for each trade (in/out), I log the detailed entry, stop, target, strategy, etc. There are additional comments where I jot down my thoughts and areas of improvement. I have a summary sheet which contains a running total of all trades to date: And from this I can graph an equity curve: As well as calculate statistics things such as: Average Risk/Reward by Strategy Number of Trades by Strategy Win Percentage Etc, etc. Here is the data presented graphically in another post. I'm still learning in the simulator, so I haven't really found any use for the statistics yet. However, the data is there for when I am ready to analyze and review my performance quantitatively. Let's see your journal templates!

Hey girls! I joined BBT in September of 2019 and I am learning so much! I've been trading live with small shares for a few weeks now. Just wondering if anyone in this group that is actively trading would like to set up a trade review/discussion group? I've checked the member map and I don't think anyone lives near me so I am assuming that we would need to either Face Time or Skype. I chatted with 2 ladies this afternoon in the late trading session and they were interested..anyone else? Does anyone live in or around Tennessee?

4-16-20 AIS 0800, 7.5 hours, 8/10 Feeling good but very busy with online business. PAT: Over-trading, Back to no early trades ROKU My nemesis paid me today. I walk on eggshells when in this stock. +3.5R Cons: Didnt take enough size Pros: Took this trade even though it has been a thorn. PB Trade: ROKU Rs: +3.5R

@Justin thank you! That saved me a lot of time, I appreciate it! @ Owandre Thank you, Im in SIM right now just trying to work out all the kinks

It doesn't work because there is no stop order being sent with those hotkeys. It looks like you got those from Kyle's hotkeys. On the first tab of the spreadsheet (Setup & Instructions), you need to turn "Send a Stop Trigger Order?" to "True". It's on line 27.

Hello Lexie, What Brokerage do you use? If it is CMEG, you need to change all of your TIF=DAY+ to TIF=DAY. Example: Thors B/E hotkey : CXL ALLSYMB;Route=Stop;Price=AvgCost;StopType=MARKET;STOPPRICE=AvgCost;StopPrice=Round2;Share=Pos;TIF=DAY+;Send=Reverse For CMEG: CXL ALLSYMB;Route=Stop;Price=AvgCost;StopType=MARKET;STOPPRICE=AvgCost;StopPrice=Round2;Share=Pos;TIF=DAY;Send=Reverse Take care and stay safe, Otis

PTamang, If you are using any hotkey scripts in DAS for CMEG, you need to make sure that it says TIF=DAY . If you have copied and pasted it directly from somewhere, it usually says" TIF=DAY+..... you need to take off the "+". Example: Thors B/E hotkey : CXL ALLSYMB;Route=Stop;Price=AvgCost;StopType=MARKET;STOPPRICE=AvgCost;StopPrice=Round2;Share=Pos;TIF=DAY+;Send=Reverse For CMEG: CXL ALLSYMB;Route=Stop;Price=AvgCost;StopType=MARKET;STOPPRICE=AvgCost;StopPrice=Round2;Share=Pos;TIF=DAY;Send=Reverse Take care and stay safe, Otis

I did actually purchase Trade Ideas my first year and did not find it useful. All I needed from Trade Ideas was already set up with the BBT scanners. So once I had the chatroom open, I just used their scanners.

took almost that exact same trade in $BAC with the same result!

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Hi all, Having a journal is a must. I feel like I have learned so much about my trading in just the 2 weeks trading live because of this journal. For anyone starting out like me, if you are serious about this business, take the time to have a detailed journal. How else can we improve something we are not tracking? I focus more on the details of the trade and what I was thinking at the time, IB has tons of report performance reports that I can pull later if I want to see the numbers crunched. Here is a screenshot and detail of my journal, I have 3 main sections on my recap: Screenshot Link: Click Here Section 1: In this section I record how I feel Physically and Mentally in the morning before I start my trading day. Comment if I was able to get my morning routine done as planned. (My mourning routine is gym, sauna, get to my station and write my Journal Intro, review previous day recap, then build watchlist) Section 2: Here I add a screenshot of my Das Trader Account Report, with the me a summary of what I traded for the day. At the bottom of the page I also have additional screenshots of the detail transactions. Section 3: In this section I track some information of the stock like float size and how I found the stock. I also note down details of the trade like the strategy, position size and details of the price action shown on the screenshot. The best part about this section is the “Well Done" and "Improvement Notes”. I read on “The Daily Trading Coach: 101 Lessons for Becoming Your Own Trading Psychologist” how important it is to track what you did well on a trade. This way your recap is not all negative but also highlighting the good things that you should continue to do. Software: Just some information on the software I use, I track my Journal on Microsoft OneNote. As you can see on the pages tab I track all my Trading stuff like highlights of the book I am reading and any training course notes. If you have not try this software please give it a shot. It has a lot of great features, syncs with all devices and is completely free. Thanks. Carlos M.