Mike B

Great risk management on $BX. I was watching $BX too but the price action was to crazy for my tolerance level to get in.

April 18, 2019 - Nothing I had limited time for trading this morning. I was watching $CRON and $BX. There was a possible setup on $CRON, but I was not comfortable with the price action around VWAP, so I choose to sit on the sidelines. $BX was to crazy of price action for me to get in. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 17, 2019 - $MU & $AMD (Stopped x 3) Painful day today. I definitely did not execute my trades well. All three trades, I did not do any risk to reward analysis prior to entering. The worse of the three was $AMD. I entered without a profit target or any basic analysis, just that I looked over and saw the 1 minute chart looked good for an entry, so I entered. I was also in the second $MU trade at the same time. I cannot think of a time live that I have traded two stocks at the same time. Anyways, I exited $MU before my stop because I loss faith in it, not that there was really a technical level to get out and focused on $AMD. Once I did that I realized I probably should not be in the $AMD trade either, so I exited. The one thing that you cannot see on the $AMD chart is that price action was moving towards VWAP. I will say the one thing I am proud of is that I did not go past my daily max loss and I truly was not bothered by the monetary losses, it was more that I was not executing my entries and risk to reward analysis. I think I was forcing the trades instead of letting the setup develop, because looking back it looks like I was stopping out when I should have been entering. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 15, 2019 - $WFC (Stopped, Profit Target) My first trade I got stopped out. I remained calm and after the stock had a couple of indecision candles with high volume, I took my second shot at the stock when it broke the opening range again. I rode it up to the profit target. I had one hotkey mistake as I added to my position instead of covering everything. I quickly recovered and exited the trade. After reviewing the trade, my profit taking could have been much better. There was no reason to take my second out until I hit my profit target and I should have let rest run until another technical level or indicator that the move had ended. As William H would say, there was no new 1 minute lows. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 12, 2019 - $AMD (Partial + 1) Took a 5 min ORBD on $AMD. I got a partial, and took another half out near the profit target. I exited when it broke the 9 EMA. Another good trade on $AMD. Eventually, after a strong pullback it went down near my profit target. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 11, 2019 - $AMD (Partial + 1) Took a 15 min ORBD on $AMD. I got a partial, and took another half out near the profit target. I exited when the stock came back to my first out. Overall I was satisfied with my execution of the trade. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 9, 2019 - $AMD (Stopped out) April 10, 2019 - $AMD (Partial) Missed posting yesterday as I had some unexpected traveling occur. Below are the past two days trades. Overall I was happy with the trading; however, today I missed an entry on $DAL (15 min ORBD), because I worried too much about being wrong instead of just trading the setup. Still working on that issue. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 8, 2019 - $MU (Distracted) I was ready to take the entry on $Mu and got interrupted, so I missed the entry on $MU around the 8 minute mark. By the time I got situated back into my trading station, it was like the market data was moving faster than I could process. I just felt behind in everything I was looking at. As it is a travel day, I packed it up and head to the train station. Sample Set Results P G S P E 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 5, 2019 - $AMD (Missed Entry) I was hesitate and missed an entry on $AMD for a 5 min ORBD. I was worrying about being wrong instead of just taking the trade that had a great setup. I think the rough week of trading errors and just not executing well contributed to my hesitation today. Overall though I was pleased that I did not compound it more by chasing a trade or entering a trade that did not meet my setup criteria. I will call it a win this week. Sample Set Results P G S P E 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 4, 2019 - $SGMO (Unsure how to classify it) I took a 5 min ORBD on $SGMO, my first entry was a hotkey error and I went long instead. I exited and re-entered, when I checked my open positions I had (1) share. At that point, I exited the trade and moved on to looking for 15 min Orbs. I didn't find any, so I switched to simulator to sim if I could replicate the issue on $SGMO. I could not, so I have no idea why I only got filled with (1) share. Sample Set Results P G S P E 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 3, 2019 I am not sure what is worse, missing an entry on a great move or taking a great entry on a great move and than realizing you were in your simulator account. Today, I came face to face with the Emotional Hulk after making a blind trading error. I tried to take the Emotional Hulk head on and quickly realized it was a terrible idea, so I closed the computer, called it a day, and went on a run to get the frustration out. I realized I was in sim after my first out, and then closed the position. I tried to recover after switching to my live account but my emotions had the better me, so I did not take any other trade.

April 2, 2019 - $JAMD (Sim) I missed an entry on $AMD as I hesitate just a little bit because I did not want to trade before the 5 minute mark. I than looked for a 15 min Orb, but did not find anything. I decided to sim trade a VWAP reversal on $AMD. I got before my stop as it took to long to develop, but I was ready to get back in if it broke my entry point again, which it did. Made it all the way to VWAP and I wanted to see if it could run some more as their seemed to be a lot of buyers. I got out just above break-even when the stock engulfed the previous 5 minute candle. If you look at the time frame later, it eventually did what I was looking for and made a huge move back to the high of the day. Sample Set Results P G S P 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

April 1, 2019 - $JD x 2 (Stopped Out, Partial) I am amazed how much more comfortable I getting stopped out. Today, I got stopped out and started looking for another trade, saw another opportunity on $JD and got a partial out of it. I than went looking for 1 15 min Orb but did not see one that my edge. A month ago I would never of been able to do this while being in control of my emotions. Sample Set Results P G S P 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

March 29, 2019 - $BB & $AMD (Partial, Hit Profit Target) I am still adjusting my next sample set (Profit taking Plan) a little before posting the parameters here; however, on Friday I set a goal to trade a 5 min Orb and 15 min Orb live if I could find 2 stocks that met my trade criteria. I wanted to see the emotions and nervousness that I would experience adding an additional strategy. It went well and I was happy with my execution. Sample Set Results P G 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

March 28, 2019 - Nothing met my edge, but I did take a sim trade on $AMD working the engulfing strategy that I will be incorporating after this sample set.