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  • #1
  • First Post: Edited 11:31am Mar 14, 2018 11:13am | Edited 11:31am
so first post... I m starting my own personal trading diary

the reason is pure personal, I want to write down all trades I will make. With or without some picture and comment.
And I want to make them public, so this will help me to stick to my rules.

I do not expect much public activity here, maybe later if I will succeed and I will accumulate some serious profit, this thread will be more interesting for others.

Anyway, you are welcomed to check.

I trade different situations, maybe later I will describe my strategies, its basically candles+volume and very easy, no so much indicators, divergencies, holygrails...

Rules:
*one trade a day
*not too tight SLs, but maximum is 500point
*every trade have two parts, two takeprofits - TP1 and TP2. TP1 is basically mirrored SL /to cover the trade/ and TP2 can be any level I will decide

*****THIS THREAD IS ABSOLUTELY NOT INTENDED AS INVESTMENT RECOMMEDATION. IM NOT RESPOSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY LOSS CAUSED BY COPYING MY TRADES ******

thats all.

so, new blank account, lets go.
  • #2
  • Mar 15, 2018 7:13am Mar 15, 2018 7:13am
A trading diary has great potential for future improvements to any system. You could say its a great investment.

I log all my trades with instrument, dates entered and exited, reasons/pattern/strategy for opening and closing and gain/loss. Even this rudimentary has really helped me focus on doing more of the good stuff. In fact that would be a top tip from me - if you're 80% successful at trading (or pretty much anything), don't spend more than 20% of your time trying to reduce the 20% of failures: spend at least 80% of your time improving the good things you're already doing. Reinforce strength: don't spend more and more resources on the failures.
  • #3
  • Mar 15, 2018 9:08am Mar 15, 2018 9:08am
Quoting tomorton
A trading diary has great potential for future improvements to any system. You could say its a great investment. I log all my trades with instrument, dates entered and exited, reasons/pattern/strategy for opening and closing and gain/loss. Even this rudimentary has really helped me focus on doing more of the good stuff. In fact that would be a top tip from me - if you're 80% successful at trading (or pretty much anything), don't spend more than 20% of your time trying to reduce the 20% of failures: spend at least 80% of your time improving the good...
Hello and welcome! Thank you very much for advise.
  • #4
  • Edited 1:53pm Mar 15, 2018 9:10am | Edited 1:53pm
Eurusd

buy: 1.23339 , sl: 1.23215 , tp1: 1.23510 , tp2: 1.24500

note: expecting crossing yellow area on M15

resume: bad start , KICKED OFF, 2x -13pips
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  • #5
  • Edited 8:41am Mar 16, 2018 3:03am | Edited 8:41am
EURUSD

sell: 1.23228 SL: 1.23494 , TP1 : 1.22933 , TP2: 1.1900/will see, ha/

note: strong selling level from past, standard marks for sell-day today, yesterday low broken asia, re-test of 1.23 /strong level/ , price up before London open, sls above yesterday yellow M15 area.

edit: TP1 hitted /+29pips / , SL moved to 1.23366, rest I will close manually if reverse signal will occure

edit2: next yellow area occured /possible reverse, if crossing, I will close the rest/

edit3: closed the rest +33 pips

resume: +62pips
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  • #6
  • Edited 10:35am Mar 19, 2018 3:55am | Edited 10:35am
EURUSD

buy: 1.22789 , SL: 1.22543 , TP1: 1.23089 , TP2: 1.24400

edit1: TP1 hitted /+30pips/ , SL moved to 1.22678 /bellow M15 yellow area/

edit2: pullback looks good moving SL to 1.22930 /bellow yesterday yellow area/

edit3: SL moved to 1.23141

edit4: SL hitted /+35 pips/

resume: +65pips
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  • #7
  • Edited 7:13am Mar 20, 2018 2:15am | Edited 7:13am
EURUSD

pending order BUY: 1.23264 , SL: 1.22960 , TP1: 1.23828 , TP2: 1.26100

edit1: orders cathed and active

edit2: I moved SL 5pips down, I know bad bad thing. But there are reasons for this..

resume: bad bad bad -2x35 pips -70pips
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  • #8
  • Mar 20, 2018 4:33am Mar 20, 2018 4:33am
Interesting trading style. You have 1 follower in me.
  • #9
  • Mar 20, 2018 4:42am Mar 20, 2018 4:42am
Quoting alvarogj
Interesting trading style. You have 1 follower in me.

hello, thank you, just please keep in mind this is just my diary, for my own retrospective /but Im happy to see anybody here, and thank you for following/ , but there can be huge delays of my activity.
For now, for example, I think about to jump to market directly because my pending order was not hitted. Will see, but I will not inform about that instantly. I warn you, and anybody, with copying my trades, Im not profitable trader, to be honest .

all the best
  • #10
  • Edited 2:58pm Mar 21, 2018 3:13am | Edited 2:58pm
EURUSD

sell: 1.22765 , SL: 1.23070 , TP1: 1.22412 , TP2: 1.19000

notes: expecting M15 yellow area crossing , untested open price, SL above strong level, FOMC evening, sell at good strong level 100 on fibo, nice M1 turning pattern pic2 /maybe/

edit1: doesnt look good, but M30 yello area occured, expecting crossing but possible strong uptrend

edit2: now it looks good pictue4 M1

edit3: another M1, 5, 15, 30 yellow area occured. Bellow the first and even bigger. This is gonna be really big, but possible big uptrend. But what should be the sense of consolidation ABOVE open price? uptrend? I cant believe that.

edit4: nice crossing on M30 /pic5/, waiting on H1 close, if crossing also, then the right way is definitely down. But where to put SL ahead of FOMC?

edit5: closing MT4, its perfect now, will check that on evening. Time to make something useful.

edit6: another nice crossing on H1 , I will stay in this position during the news. Open price wil be tested for "sure" which will cover the trade, and then will see.

resume: SL hitted on FOMC -61pips
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  • #11
  • Edited 3:50pm Mar 21, 2018 3:10pm | Edited 3:50pm
i just do not believe it is real move..

EURUSD

sell : 1.23433, SL: 1.23682 , TP1: 1.22384 , TP2: 1.19000

closed on BE , bad idea, breaking my rules. Im only human, eh..
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  • #12
  • Mar 21, 2018 3:40pm Mar 21, 2018 3:40pm
Get out of EurUsd when you can.... it is going to 1.2420 by tomorrow or day after at most.
  • #13
  • Mar 21, 2018 3:51pm Mar 21, 2018 3:51pm
Quoting harupit
Get out of EurUsd when you can.... it is going to 1.2420 by tomorrow or day after at most.
thank you
  • #14
  • Mar 21, 2018 3:59pm Mar 21, 2018 3:59pm
Quoting matkooooo
i just do not believe it is real move.. EURUSD sell : 1.23433, SL: 1.23682 , TP1: 1.22384 , TP2: 1.19000 closed on BE , bad idea, breaking my rules. Im only human, eh..
Neither did Ryan Brown and he lost 36%

The interest rate rise was real, and so is the market reaction, well, for now anyway
It takes a lot for me to IGNORE you, but you can try.
  • #15
  • Edited 1:50pm Mar 22, 2018 2:58am | Edited 1:50pm
EURUSD

only pending order, until some serious reverse signal occur. I still think bearish and expecting yesterday open tested.

pending order sell: 1.24333 , SL: 1.24770, TP1: 1.22413, TP2: 1.1900

another pending order sell /based on M30 high volume pinbar/: 1.23805, SL:1.23958, TP1: 1.23371 , TP2: 1.22413

edit1: order SL revised and fixed

edit2: micro BUY till my sell order , 1.2433 ,SL: 1.23355 , TP1: 1.23617 , TP2: 1.23802

edit3: unsuccessful, repeating this micro, unsuccess again. Its a pity that I didnt catch that M30pinbar move. Enough, closing MT4, regenerating

edit4: OK, I got it, this will be my trade for today: pending sell: 1.23705 , SL: 1.24175 , TP1: 1.22413 , TP2: 1.1900
picture 3 shows yesterday yellow area. Im pretty sure this is the key start level of new big trend. I will check reaction. If show strength, I will go to buy with SL bellow this area, if weakness and crossing /expecting/ , I will jump to short with SL above this level. I think all this up move which killed me yesterday was nothing just a bull trap.

edit5: light test sell based on new M1 yellow area , 1.23070 , SL: 1.23335

edit6: another yellow area occured on M5, with crossing the level, just above the H1 yesterday yellow area. This looks like yesterday H1 area is going to be broken. But will check and maybe close on BE /pic4/

edit7: nice M1 yellow area occured /pic5/
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  • #16
  • Edited 2:10pm Mar 23, 2018 3:39am | Edited 2:10pm
this is my longer time setup on EURUSD daily. I will close if yesterday high will be broken. Even today high /1.23484/ will be alarming. The last retrace level is 1.23708 , where gap occured and selling started yesterday.

edit1: expecting /pic2/

edit2: looks like gap level will work /pic3/, good potential for last top, if crossing again Im ready to close my trade, but I believe in testing untested open prices today's and wednesday's.
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  • #17
  • Mar 26, 2018 2:51pm Mar 26, 2018 2:51pm
trapped in short. tough life.
  • #18
  • Mar 26, 2018 9:28pm Mar 26, 2018 9:28pm
I am really not a good trader at all, but your risk control went completely out of the window on these last 2 entries, whereas before that it looked, at least, much better.

I say that but I am 100% sure you know it already, and are very pissed off that... you've done it again!!!! Aren't we all? :0)

Fingers crossed it will go back down your way, and won't be too much damage for your account.

In my modest experience, it never works on the long run, and I have been caught a billion times like you (but at a much loooooower leverage otherwise I would have had a heart attack ;0)

You can be lucky for some time, but at some point (generaly pretty fast) you get a slap in the face, and hard sleeping at night.

You need to have a way THAT YOU RESPECT, to control your risk (and it doesn't need to be a hard stop loss if you don't like them, but you have to find a way and respect it).

I say that, but being "trading blind" myself, it seems it would be the blind guiding the blind. Thus take what I say with a big pinch of salt :0)

I wish you very good luck in your trading.
Cheers,
J-F
  • #19
  • Mar 27, 2018 2:09am Mar 27, 2018 2:09am
Quoting J-f
I am really not a good trader at all, but your risk control went completely out of the window on these last 2 entries, whereas before that it looked, at least, much better. I say that but I am 100% sure you know it already, and are very pissed off that... you've done it again!!!! Aren't we all? :0) Fingers crossed it will go back down your way, and won't be too much damage for your account. In my modest experience, it never works on the long run, and I have been caught a billion times like you (but at a much loooooower leverage otherwise I would...

thank you very much for kind words, my friend. Yes, I was completely wrong, I can see now that my strategy is very good, not good its perfect, and work /even I think a lot of times, if there really is some probability at all /, but I did totally different thing I should do. Exactly opposite thing, sell instead of buy. I wanted to track the whale, but he ate me .
I trade few years and I have 1:25 leverage and my account is not fat, its still something like "few dollars", a hobby size, so I have no problem with loss and my sleep is always great. I learned at least this thing by that years of trading. I do not see millons when I close eyes hehe. I want to see that Im able to produce consistent profit, and maybe one day I will put some "money" on my account. Now it looks I cant do it.
I will see how this end and then I will try it again with more precise rules, and I promise all my followers /if there are some/ that I wil never break them. That meant to be reason of this thread acctually from its begenning. But I failed, I hope you can excuse me this time.
  • #20
  • Edited 11:04am Mar 27, 2018 7:44am | Edited 11:04am
EURUSD

buy

notes: yellow area occured on M5 + no demand pattern. expecting up move 50pips

resume: breakeven

edit: yellow areas in action /pic2/ green line +500points , red line -1000points , second green line +500points??
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