Mike B

May 21, 2019 - $AMD (Partial) I took 1 live trade on $AMD a couple minutes before the 15 minute candle closed, but I saw the pullback towards VWAP, rejection of VWAP, and a break of the previous 1 minute. Along with this the moving averages were above on both the 1 and 5 minute charts, so I entered. I got a partial and was looking for it to go to the 200 moving average on the 15 minute for a second partial and let it run to the profit target, but it pullback and I got stopped out at the breakeven. Unfortunately, I could not trade longer than the first 30 minutes due to work, but looking at the price action this evening, that is probably a good thing. Sample Set Results S P P P P S P P 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

May 20, 2019 - $MU (Stopped Out) $INTC (Partial) Today was a sloppy day of trading. I was so focused on my entries that I failed to look at the larger time frame and realize that I was trading outside of my edge. Both trades today were terrible execution of my designed trade plan. Thankfully, I had good risk management which allowed me to walk away with minimal losses. I did get rewarded for bad behavior today. The trade I should have taken was a 15 ORBD on $AMD. A perfect setup with a perfect entry near VWAP. I just missed it as I looked away at $INTC. The move already happened so if I entered later the Risk to Reward was no longer there. In the end it was a growing day. Stopping out on the first trade is becoming easier and easier. Sample Set Results S P P P P S P 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Sounds like a great idea. I am in.

May 17, 2019 - $AMAT (2 Partials) Adding the post a little late this weekend, as I was this weekend picking my son up from his 1st year of college. 1st Trade - I saw a good setup on $AMAT, so I entered. I was a little emotional for some reason and took a quick profit. I stopped out early because of the early out, otherwise I would have been able to hold the stock through the second pullback. 2nd Trade - I got back into the trade when I realized that I did not handle my emotions with profit taking and that my original trade plan was good. I executed a much better profit taking plan in this trade. My emotions were more in check on the second trade. I added a range order to this trade once I took my second out. I am going to continue to do this if the price action allows me to input the range order. Sample Set Results S P P P P 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Great entry on that trade. By that time in the day I was emotionally drained dealing with FOMO and missing entries that I just moved to sim.

May 16, 2019 - $CSCO, $MU, $AMD (Fought with FOMO all day and did not take a trade) I didn't get much rest last night, so it felt like I was behind every move today, which added more and more FOMO after each missed entry. Today's journal I pointed out where I looked at possibility entering but didn't because I couldn't analyze the data quick enough to determine if I had a good risk to reward ratio. Overall a good day, as out of the 4 entries only 1 truly met my trade criteria. Sample Set Results S P P 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

How do you pick your Watch-list? It seems you have all different types of stocks Low, medium, high float with various ATRs and prices. I only ask because I found throughout my trading that I need to stick with mid and high float stocks between $10-$55 dollars with ATRs lower than $2.00. Anything outside these parameters, I always ended up in negative.

Hey Mark, I use to watch the Lvl 2 for my stop loss and about a 1 1/2 months ago, I heard Andrew say that he watches the last price marker on the chart more than anything. So, I started forcing myself to watch that instead of the lvl 2 and it became easier for me to exit at my stop. Also a by product that I was not expecting was I started noticing I had a better understanding of the price action by watching the price marker instead of the lvl 2 prices and time and sales. Mike

May 15, 2019 - $TEVA (1 Target) Since going live the middle Wednesday of the month, has traditionally been my biggest losing day. For whatever reason, I would always have extended losses on this day. So for today, I was more than happy to only take one trade and let it be a winner. I was not pressing my luck. 1st Cover - Was a quick pop down which from the time I pressed the hotkey would have been a great move. 2nd Cover - That was at the profit target. All Out - I exited when the stock pop quickly back to my 1st out and stuck with my profit taking plan of letting the last bit go further or stop it out at my 1st out.. Sample Set Results S P P 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Thanks Mark, Yeah the last few weeks have been chaos for me outside of trading. Finally got the side items in check and can focus back on trading again.

May 14, 2019 - $AMD (1 Stop, 1 Target) Well it has been a while since I posted within a sample set. I took longer than normal to design this sample set as I wanted to focus on a couple of key items I been having issues with. This sample set I working on executing my trade plan properly without adjusting it in the middle. I post the parameters later tonight as I am running short on time before I need to head back to work. Below are my first two trades of the new sample set. 1st Trade - I entered too early and could not remember if I had inputted my stop loss correctly for my hotkey, so I exited and reset my stop to the technical level and looked for the proper entry. 2nd Trade - I entered at what I think is a good spot. I took the first partial when the momentum stopped, my second partial (which was actually an all-out) was near the PCL. I could have sworn that I hit my partial cover button, but I guess not. Also the trade log shows almost a 8 sec delay in the last two fills. I am going to have to check the account after the close today to see if it was just a delayed fill or if I hit the cover all button later. Sample Set Results S P 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

May 7 through 10 I observed a valuable lesson this week. Just like in life, to do something well you must be focused on it and can not just do it to do it. In trading this can have some serious consequences. For the past four days, I have been forcing trading. By this I mean, I had time to conduct my pre-market routine and trade the open, but my post market routine and reviews I could not get done, because of the enormous amounts of other things in my life going. The overwhelming feeling of being over tasked definitely slipped into my trading this week and I am just glad I was able to maintain my discipline with risk management which help persevere my capital. In all I took 6 trades this week 3 on Monday and 3 on Thursday, all of which were outside my edge. My results were 4 stop outs, 1 partial, 1 hit profit target (although my execution was terrible, so I gave most of it back to my broker). Now for the good news, next week is a new week.

May 6, 2019 - 3 Trades on $AMD (1 partial and 2 stops) Well after having 5 long days away from the market, I was ready to get back at it. Unfortunately, I failed miserably at ensuring I got back into the market correctly. I got 4 hours of sleep, woke up and traveled 2 1/2 hours to work getting in around 4:45am to start my pre-market routine. I was behind from the beginning in my entire routine and it reflected in the way I traded today. I got all I deserved. The best part, although I can't say I like it, is that the market did not reward me for my extremely bad behavior on entries. I will say that my discipline on stopping out saved the day.

April 30, 2019 - No trades I had $WDC, $GE, and $GM on the watchlist today and did not see 5 min Orb or 15 min Orb that met my trading edge. I currently developing my next sample set for next week. I do not believe, I will be able to trade the rest of the week due to work; however, I might be able to get 30 minutes in tomorrow, but we will see.

April 29, 2019 - $AMD (Partial x 2) I took a trade for a 15 minute ORBD, but it was a little outside my edge with regards to the risk to reward. This was mostly due to getting a bad entry, which also contributed to having to exit at the break even after taking a partial. 2nd sample set is complete, which fell on a good week since I will be traveling a lot this week and won't be able to trade Thursday or Friday. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 S P S S P 20

Welcome Patrick, I have found that sharing my journal helps keep me honest with myself and prevents me from rationalizing bad decisions.

Rob, Looks like a great plan moving into May. Look forward to reading about the results.

April 26, 2019 - $AMD (Stopped/Partial x 2) Trade 1 - I got in a little early on the first trade as I was looking for it to bounce of the moving average and go back down. I had a little FOMO as all the chip stocks were selling off and I was not getting in. When $AMD pullback back and than broke the 15 minute opening range I went short. I got out near my stop loss and started looking for another entry on $AMD, $INTC, or $MU (even though I was not inclined to trade $MU). Trade 2 - When I saw $AMD pop above VWAP and failed to pass through the 50 SMA on 1 minute, I started looking for an entry. I entered when the stock dropped with volume and broke the previous day high. My first partial was a little early as I should have let it go all the way to the support level, my second partial was at the low of the day and than I was looking for $27 as my profit target. Instead the stock bounced back and I exited at my break even. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 S P S S P 20

April 25, 2019 - $CMCSA (Stopped - kinda of) I stopped out today on $CMCSA, but it was not because of a technical level; rather, it was because of mechanical issues with my internet connection. I entered the trade a little early as it turns out, I thought it was going to take off quicker, instead it consolidated. During the consolidation, my ping speed start fluctuating from 200 - 800ms causing my DAS to have lag with the price action. My clock was skipping 3 secs at a time. This is the negative of having to trade off of a WIFI hotspot. This is the first time it has happened while I been in the middle of a trade. I tried to hold through it, but as it got more and more eradicate, I decided to cut my losses before it got to out of hand and closed my position. When I did my journal, all I could say is I should have held on for another two minutes. Not a good thing as it just made me more frustrated, so I had to remind myself it could have very easily gone against me and I would not have been able to get out. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 S P S 18 19 20

April 24, 2019 - No Trading Day today I was only available to trade the first 20 minutes and did not have anything that met my edge. I almost got into $EBAY around the sixth minute, but the price action was to jumpy for me. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 S P 17 18 19 20

April 23, 2019 - $KO (Partial x 2) It was good to have a trade go in my direction after my entry. 0 for 4 can take a toll on you. I saw $KO sell off at the open and I figured it was people taking profits, but because of the good earnings report I was looking for a bounce back. I saw the hammer doji on the 15 minute chart and along with the moving averages below the price action on the 1 min. I was looking for a little more of a pullback towards VWAP, but when the stock broke above the 2 previous 1 minute high candles, I decided to enter. I executed the entry and first two covers well. The third cover I was wanting to let it run to my profit target, so I was willing to hold it longer. Because the moving averages were well below the price action I was willing to hold it past the second 5 minute candle that failed to make a new high. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 S P 17 18 19 20

April 22, 2019 - $AMD (Stopped) I had a good setup for the 15 minute opening range breakdown. All my indicators and confirmations were present for the strategy and I saw the double bottom form around 9:45 mark which failed to break through the VWAP. I took an entry when the 5 minute candle engulfed which occurred around the same price as the stock breaking the 15 minute opening range. It was an A1 setup that just did not breakdown. I stopped out at my planned stop. The only thing I should have done differently, was exited after the stock bounced twice off of 27.45 within the same 1 min candle with high bids. I have traded $AMD enough to know that the stock usually reverses direction when this occurs. Overall it was a good trade and I did not violate any of my rules. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P P S G 12 13 14 S 16 17 18 19 20

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