Archive for October 30th, 2006

10-30-2006 Review of the Day

What Was I Thinking?

We’re all entitled to a play like this every now & then. But I just need to take note and make sure that I’m not becoming complacent in my recent string of winning days. There really was no legitimate reason for me to have entered when/where I did.

Unfinished fractals appear all the time, but just because you think one MAY complete is no reason to enter a trade midway through a move without some other kind of strong confirming evidence. In this situation there was none. That’s why fractals are so powerful when they do complete and why I’ve had such good luck with them recently.

I’ll have to be extra vigilant tomorrow, especially in the morning.

10-30-2006 Trading Results & Analysis


Today could have definitely gone better as I found myself in a couple of trades that I had no legitimate right being in. One of them is highlighted above. I got as close as 1 losing trade away from hitting my daily stop limit but managed to hang in there, find some good trades, and escape with a minor loss on the day of 1 R-Unit.

Unfortunately that ends my 6-day winning streak but it doesn’t really affect my ability to move up to the next level if I am able to trade well in the days/weeks to come. According to my plan, I can still proceed if I hit my target in 16/20 days…right now I’m at 6/7, so not bad.

The other way I could advance would be to go 10/10 days of hitting my target. And while today interupted that path, since my loss was less than 1/2 of my daily stop-limit total, I can still proceed down the 10/10 path upon making back what I lost today…which in effect would mean I’d have to hit my target the next 5 days in a row instead of 4.

Although I didn’t ge the result I wanted for today, I have much to be proud of after going down so much so early in the day. And after an 8 R-Unit winning streak, I can totally handle a 1 R-Unit drawdown…just gotta make sure that it stays at 1 R-Unit tomorrow!

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