For all practical purposes, I finished the day at break even (Up like .05 R-Unit to be exact). My first trade of the day got hit with some serious lag and my entry price was 3 ticks away from where I wanted it to be, so I scratched it for a small loss.

I’m not sure what was wrong after that but my data feed was very spotty and would freeze up entirely for minutes at a time. I called Comcast and they said that there was nothing wrong as far as my cable modem was concerned. I managed to get off a couple successful scalps when things were running smoothly. But then I lost my connection entirely.

I ended up having to reboot my machine and decided to run some some diagnostics (spyware, anti-virus, defrag, error check, etc.) A couple hours later I was up and running again and things seemed better but then after lunch TradeStation started fritzing out on me again.

I’ve learned my lesson the hard way to stay away from TS when its acting this way, and decided to take it easy and hope that whatever is wrong is on TradeStation’s end and will be better by tomorrow. I’ll tread lightly in the morning for sure.

There were a couple of great looking trend setups that occured today, but I have implemented a new rule that prohibits me from taking any trend plays unless certain criteria are met, one of them being that I have at least hit my net daily goal of .80 R-Units.

But around noon, there was a great looking 610 tick TRIX Divergence that would have been good for 3-4 ER2 points and a little before 3:00 pm there was a very nice looking 2-minute TRIX Divergence that was good for a little bit. I’d post charts but I’m late for dinner!

Hopefully I’ll have more to discuss tomorrow…