Archive for October 29th, 2006

Review for Week Ending 10-27-2006

I recently updated my ScalpRate Spreadsheet to output PnL Distributions based on Time of Day and # Converging Factors. Here are my results for this past week:

I made progress on all fronts this past week. I decreased the # of 1-Factor trades from 30% down to 22%, Turned my 2-Factor trades from an average loss of $30/trade to an average gain of $30/trade , and increased my 3+Factor trades from 30% to 42% with Avg PnL from +$58/trade to +$67/trade.

Concerning the Time Distribution table. During the month of October overall, I only have 2 time periods where I have consistently shown a profit, but last week I showed a vast improvement accross all time-periods showing a loss in only 2 of them.

Based on last week’s results, this week I need to focus on:

1.) Continuing to Reduce the # of 1-Factor trades that I make (with the eventual goal of eliminating them all together)
2.) Continue to reduce my lot size & become more selective with the trades that I make prior to 10:00am
3.) Become more vigilant with the types of setups I am taking after 2:15pm and reduce my lot size & risk exposure until i am able to get those numbers consistently positive
4.) Do exactly what I did last week on all other fronts, as it was one of my best weeks ever!
 
 

Free Mental Fitness for Traders eBook

I came accross this eBook this morning and found it to be incredibly insightful. The link is:

http://www.the-way-to-trade.com/fitness.pdf

It is one of the best free resources on trading psychology that I have read in a quite some time covering issues from why we fail to cut our losses & let our winners run to how we can use relaxation & visualization to help us uncover the master trader inside. It is something that Tiger Woods does before every match and has done since he was 14 years old. Yet I’ve yet to actually meet another trader in person that applies these simple & powerful techniques.

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