Accidentally shorted NAS by -2 units (thank you interface) when I tried to downscale JP225 position, lost 10 EUr. Closed JP225 at 20224 because...
Buy JP225JPY x 5 @ 20191, stop 20117. Paid a lot for spread = misscaled position.. ugh
Closes ASX200 x -6 @ 5688 Started moving quickly in wrong direction so closed for minor profit. Edit: In hindsight it probably will look stupid,...
ASX200AUD x 6 @ 5682.9 Risk of mean reversion but taking this to ride on positive sentiment today. Edit: Stop 5619
Trade remaining open from last week: buy NATGASUSD x 1050 @ 3.00, stop 2.57 Purely speculative minor position on seasonality and mean reversion...
Rules/aims: Add 0.5% of tiny account size (18000 EUR) per market day except Tuesdays when I'm required to be in elsewhere or whenever my...
I would like to achieve semi-automation eventually (in fact I spent a few years writing trading algos before I decided I would do manual trading...
I don't I guess, leverage is only analyzed post mortem. My app keeps track of used margin etc. so I really just care about trade size vs size of...
Or what the heck, I might try it and quit if I see it muddying my thinking. I do have a journal to myself on Google Drive since a few years so I...
The thing is, invariably people would post their opinions on markets in there, which in turn would impact my decision making subconsciously even...
Nah not going to make it a habit, I wouldn't want it to influence my trading. Just blowing off some steam, apologies.
Having another go at intraday trading this year (as opposed to my usual days-weeks holding periods) as clearly the market regime has been more...
Was on the right side of this one, kinda sux I didn't have any algo/trailing stop to close at the favorable price though.
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Oh I am very much aware of compounding, I did pay attention in elementary school. Your calculation is off though, it's more like 12875% annual...
First of all, thank you for your insight. It's rare to have winning consistent traders (I'd wager <10%) of posting on here. Just a note, there's...
There will be a great opportunity to buy and hold but doing it too soon will kill you. We're at the part of the business cycle we should be seeing...
Suspect even quite a few quants love ignoring "exceptional" cases like 2008 in their backtesting.
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