Mike B

Hello Everyone, Details for tomorrow's meetup. I plan on getting there around 6:45pm and heading to the bar to block an area off for us. From talking with the restaurant staff tomorrow they are going to busy. Time: 7:00pm Drinks/7:45pm Dinner Reservation Name: Mike B Location: Puesto at the Headquarters Address: 789 W Harbor Dr San Diego, CA 92101 Updated list of Attendees (20) Andrew BrianP PeterD MikeB True cthennebry juargas2108 Marek raminzand + guest rizza0907 (maybe) Esam E. awm3186 EJ Anarizza Jamie Mikayla Nick Matt Dani See everyone tomorrow, safe travels.

Oct 18 trades on AA. Today was a rough day, as I took three trades, two of them without a Trade, Risk, or Profit Taking plan. I made my daily goal off the first trade, so if I was live I would have executed the last two trades in sim. However, this is a perfect example of the market rewarding bad behavior have I broke almost all my rules prior to entering the trade. 2018-10-18 12-13-13.mp4

Updated list of attendees, (18 total) Andrew BrianP PeterD MikeB True cthennebry juargas2108 Marek raminzand + guest rizza0907 (maybe) Esam E. awm3186 EJ Anarizza Jamie Mikayla Nick

October 17 trade on AMD. I beginning to realize AMD and I are really good buddies. Got a late entry but my profit taking was where I wanted it to be. If I had been patience, If I had not hit my goal for the day I could also have taken a 15 Min ORBD on AMD. I noticed while I was doing my re-cap. Couple more weeks until I go live. 2018-10-17 12-08-11.mp4

Thanks Carlos M. I agree hotkey mistakes and ruin your day. I now have added unlocking my montages to my daily checklist before the market opens. I would think this would seems natural to not forget but I have done it a couple of times the last two months.

October 16th, trade on CGC. I did not have time to make a video but I have included the screen shot of the trade. I did not execute my entry well as I lock my montage in the pre-market and forgot to unlock it. By the time I got it unlocked, the stock already moved down. To make matters worse, when I did enter I made a hot key mistake and went long instead of short. I quickly got out of the bad trade and re-entered with the correct hotkey. I was able to adjust my profit taking plan quickly and took profit at the previous day close and just below the moving average on the 5 minute chart. Overall not a bad trade.

October 15th did not trade as I did not get enough sleep the night before and had to leave early for work

Updated list of attendees, (16 total) Andrew BrianP PeterD MikeB True cthennebry juargas2108 Marek raminzand + guest rizza0907 (maybe) Esam E. awm3186 EJ Anarizza Jamie

Hello Everyone, Time and location for the San Diego Meetup are below. We could not get a reservation at 7:00pm so we pushed it a little later for food but still plan on meeting up for drinks at 7:00pm. Time: 7:00pm Drinks/7:45pm Dinner Location: Puesto at the Headquarters Address: 789 W Harbor Dr San Diego, CA 92101 Currently have 13-14 attendees: Andrew BrianP PeterD MikeB True cthennebry juargas2108 Marek raminzand + guest rizza0907 (maybe) Esam E. awm3186 EJ Let me know if your name is not above and you plan on attending so I can update the reservation. See you all there

October 12th trade on AMD. Took 2 trades on AMD both were green. One trade was before 5 minutes and the other was right after I got stopped out at break even on the first trade. Ended the week with 4 out of 4 green days with only having one day of true over trading. Win Rate% - 68% (slight decrease from last week but tolerable) Average Win Ratio is above a 2:1 (Slight increase from last week) Net Equity curve is Horizontal which is good considering I am trading 100 share sizes. Gross Equity curve is upward 2018-10-12 15-45-51.mp4

Right now we have 7 who have confirmed

Depending on the number of people coming I was thinking we can do a restaurant, Bar & Grill, or Sports Bar in the gas lamp district as it is close to the trade Ideas summit. I was planning locking on a location Monday Evening that way people have time to post that they are coming and any recommendations over the weekend. I was thinking around 6:00 or 6:30 pm for the meet up time. I think that would give everyone enough time to travel after work or from up north. Does this time work for everyone or should we push it earlier or later?

October 11 trade on AMD. Did not have time to make a video as I was traveling home. Below is screen shot of the Christmas Tree of over trading I did on AMD. I have a tendency to focus on the 1 minute chart and then start chasing the moves. The big thing I took away from today though is that I finally started catching myself thinking that I know what the Market is going to do. A big no, no as it only takes 1 trader to change what is going to happen. I have been working on this over the last couple weeks, thanks to the book "Trading in the Zone", that when I notice myself doing this I immediately start to analyze the opposite thought. I.e if I know the market is going to go up, I start looking for indicators that say the market is going to go down. If you look at 9:45 I took a 1/3 off and felt that I knew the stock was going to reverse since is was so extended. I immensity caught myself and started looking for indications that it still could move up on the 5 min, 15 min, and daily charts. I quickly noticed that the stock was still making higher highs and higher lows on both the 5 min and 15 min charts. I decided to stick with my trade plan and got out at my profit target of 26. If only I could have done that process with the previous 4 trades it would look much cleaner and not like a Christmas Tree of buying and selling.

October 10th trade on AMD. 15 ORBD. Entry was bad which caused more errors when taking profit. 2018-10-10 18-20-39.mp4

No trades today October 9th. I took the late train to San Diego yesterday after Columbus day and only got 3 hours of sleep. I planned on trading, but after I tried to go short on KR several times without my orders being placed I called it quits, since I finally realized I didn't unlock my montage and kept hitting "Ctrl X" instead of "Shift X". That was the sign that I was not in the right state of mind to trade.

Monday, October 8. Three trades on PBR. Don't know what I was thinking on the first trade, but the two other trades worked as planned, even though I got stopped out on one. Still need to work the profit taking methodology as I am still not consist on the share sizes I am exiting with. 2018-10-08 08-29-43.mp4

After reviewing the video in the forum, I am not sure what happened. I will have to review the video after I post it in the future make sure it is good.

Hello Everyone, Looking to put together a meetup in the San Diego area around the Trade Ideas Summit. Andrew has recommend Friday October 19th in the evening. If you are interested please post here so I can get an estimate of attendees. Also any recommends for a local bar/restaurant and times is appreciated as well. Once a got a rough number I will make the reservations and post the info here. Mike B.

October 5th trade on AMD. Stopped out and than identified some issues with the ping rate that affected my ability to continue trading in the day. Over all, I was happy with the week. Trading analytics were a 83% win rate, and a 2:1 ratio with regards to average win and average loss. This right were I want to be going live. 2018-10-05 07-03-40.mp4

Oct 4th trade of ARWR. I made my profit target but it was a bad day of trading. FOMO and trading without a stop loss set in place. 2018-10-04 16-58-08.mp4

October 3rd Recap trade on GM. 2 trades on GM; however, if I had a good entry on the first trade I would not have gotten stopped out at break even and the trade would have worked as planned. 2018-10-03 18-54-36.mp4

October 2nd trade on Intel 5 Minute ORB. I fought though entering late and holding during a strong pullback that almost stopped me out. I am not doing so well following my no trading in the first 15 minutes. I might need to re-evaluate that rule this weekend. 2018-10-02 12-13-17.mp4

I use the OBS Studio and epic pen that Abiel recommended. I record usually during my lunch, as I do not have time to record the video before starting work. This way I included all the trades I did for the day. My Goal is to trade in the simulator the exact same way I am going to trade live starting next month. Hope this helps Mike B.

Day 2 of the Simulator Trade Journal on the way to live Trading in November. 5 Minute ORBD on GE. 2018-10-01 18-05-57.mp4

Hello Everyone, First I wanted to say what a great community we have here with BBT. I have learned so much from traders with all different levels of experience. Today marks 4 months of simulator trading and I plan to do one more full month before going live. I have decided to post daily recaps of my simulator trades as a way to help myself with accountability and ensure I trade in the simulator the way I would trade live. Hopefully, these posts may help some traders who are just beginning in the simulator. My plan for the last month of simulator trading is to trade 100 shares size to copy what I plan to trade during the first month of going live. I am hoping that this gives me metrics to evaluate against once I am trading live. I welcome any feedback and comments that anyone wants to provide. 2018-09-28 15-34-44.mp4