Game Plan Trade Read TAST 100 pgs Finish Mistake/Success/Key Takeaway analysis for July & August, publish on site. Chart
Year: 2021
Successes | 9.7.2021 | Tuesday
Good Entries In the right trades. Went with the trend of the issues & the overall market Executed decisively according to plans with multiple confirmations. Protected Profits Looked to larger time frames for confirmation & conviction in trade Titanium Terry Overview: You were in all of the right trades, which…
Mistakes | 9.7.2021 | Tuesday
Peewee Paperhands Exited Trades without Technical Confirmations. Did not have faith in Levels & analysis Improper Trade Style. Scalped when I should have Day Traded Entered Late Chasing Trade Overview: On all of the trades I took, while I was right in direction & had solid entries, I did not…
Key Takeaways | 9.7.2021 | Tuesday
You must wait for CONFIRMATIONS for EXITS as well as ENTRIES. If there is no strong technical reason to sell, do not sell. You must add Day Trades to your repertoire along with Scalping & execute accordingly A good losing trade is one taken with proper confirmations. Adjust to idiosyncrasies…
Trade Journal | 9.7.2021 | Tue. | $189.80
Key Takeaways | 9.7.2021 | Tuesday You must wait for CONFIRMATIONS for EXITS as well as ENTRIES. If there is no strong technical reason to sell, do not sell. You must add Day Trades to your repertoire along with Scalping & execute accordingly A good losing trade is one taken…
Charting Journal | 9.7.2021 | Tuesday
Buy the rumor sell the news. Looking at chart of wells fargo in 2008 while reading Hank Paulson’s ‘On the Brink’. He’s detailing how Fargo was in the works to buy Wachovia around September 28th, and was working a potential deal, but had not locked anything in yet. I was…
Goals | Week 37 | 2021 | 20 hrs
Goals | 9.7.2021 | Tue. | 6 hrs Game Plan Trade Read TAST 100 pgs Finish Mistake/Success/Key Takeaway analysis for July & August, publish on site. Chart Goals | 9.7.2021 | Tue. | 6 hrs Game Plan Trade Finish formatting images for monthly data on site Finish monthly analysis of…
Charting Journal | 9.5.2021 | Sunday
Spent the morning color coding the 100 years of SPX available in TOS to reflect tenure of each president dating back to Coolidge. This exercise offered fantastic, enriching perspective of the market & of a portion of American history. Also, I outlined the significant dates in my own trading journey,…
Activity Log | 9.3.2021 | Fri. | 1.57 hrs
Refined | Solace Site Reviewed | 8.24.21 Studied | Youtube (Other), Stock Market Sectors Considering building out solace website to have posts of individual stocks & analysis catalogued chronologically to follow my own thinking on them, decided to shelf that for now, as would take too much time to create…
Goals | Week 36 | 2021 | 20 hrs
Overview: Feeling offset a bit, off track, hazy. This is to be a week of consolidation & preparation for next week, being the week I begin trading with a new framework of, rather than daily reviews, weekly reviews. I need to have faith in the work I’ve done up to…
Charting Journal | September | 2021
Need to begin trading on larger time frames. This eliminates any nuisance of emotion affecting analysis, and time and again your analysis has been proven to be sound. Also, all of your training, through TAST has been focused on larger time frame patterns. If the method of your schooling has…
Activity Log | 9.2.2021 | Thu. | 5.35 hrs
Organized | Activity Log (D) Updated | Goals (D) Charted | 9.2.21 Studied | Stanley Druckenmiller, Paul Tudor Jones, Jeff Bezos, Jim Simmons, George Soros Organizing Activity log, catching up, gaining awareness on where I’m at. Outlined goals for week. Re-watched Paul Tudor Jones video where he references TAST again…
Goals | September | 2021 | 100 hrs
Trade | 15 Days Chart | 15 Days Game Plan | 15 Days Read | TAST Finish 2nd Read Through Trade Review | Weekly Only: 4 times this month. Overview: This is to be a month of solidification. You’ve done deep analysis of your own habits, mistakes, and successes, now…
Activity Log | 9.1.2021 | Wed. | 1 hrs
Studied | UK Spreadbetting, John Paulson, Paul Tudor Jones, Credit Default Swaps Studied some more trading videos. Began beginning to learn about fed & significance of 10 year rates. Began studying John Paulson. Began to understand what a credit default swap is, for the first time realizing the definition is…
Charting Journal | 9.1.2021 | Wednesday
Need to begin trading on larger time frames. This eliminates any nuisance of emotion affecting analysis, and time and again your analysis has been proven to be sound. Also, all of your training, through TAST has been focused on larger time frame patterns. If the method of your schooling has…
Key Takeaways | August | 2021
The most efficient use of time is to trade flawlessly to the extent that you know how. Must trade off 5m. Do not trade off 1m. Do not justify entries based on 1m patterns. Only execute on the crème de la crème. There is NO benefit to disregarding discipline. DO…
Activity Log | August | 2021 | 96.3 hrs
Traded | 8.2, 8.10, 8.12, 8.24 Game Planned | 8.2, 8.10, 8.12, 8.24 Charted | 8.1, 8.6, 8.11, 8.12, 9.22, 8.23, 8.24 Reviewed | 8.2, 8.10, 8.12Read | TAST (198 pgs) Options as a Strategic Investment (Chapter on Option Buying) The New Trading for a Living Studied | People &…
Activity Log | 8.31.2021 | Tue. | .42 hrs
Studied | Youtube (UK Spreadbetting, other) Studied some trading videos briefly. Got more clarity on the structure of trading firms, & we trading is viable. Still convincing myself that it has the potential to be real. Learned about diversification of strategies and diversification of traders to spread risk. Links Studied:Youtube…
Activity Log | 8.30.2021 | Mon. | 1.22 hrs
Read | TAST (20 pgs) Read TAST at Aviano in Cherry Creek. During Flight to Phoenix Listening to On The Brink: Henry M. Paulson Jr. (Audiobook hours do not count). Began to conceptualize volume & the relationship between volume & price in a more meaningful, significant way. Understanding the nature…
Trade Journal | Week 35 | 2021 | -$319
Overview: Trade off 5m, & double down on taking only GOOD trades. You are making progress. If you had avoided the bad trades this week, even at a loss this would have been a great week. Made meaningful headway in TAST second reading & began internalizing the relationship between volume,…