Trading Journal – Week 33

Aug 20, 2022 | Playbook

TRADING JOURNAL

A trading journal is a powerful tool meant to help become a profitable and stronger trader. Essentially, it is a written record of what happened during a trade.

1. TRADING RULES

Risk Management

  • Leverage – max 10x, ideal 5x leverage
  • Small Losses – the only way to increase account size is to have small losses
  • Discipline & System – series of trades (system) over single trade
  • Risk/Reward – search trades for min 1:4 RiskReward probabtility

Overtrading

 

  • Relax – Don’t need to trade every day.
  • Quality – Reducing trades is the key (only quality trades)
  • Master One Strategy – master one trading strategy
  • One Trade – Only one / two trades are enough for day trading
  • Profits – account size increases by making profits not frequent trading.

 

Critical

 

  • Time Element– give price time to execute, stay patient
  • Market Goal – take your money
  • Supply & Demand – put odds of success in your favour (supply/demand)
  • Survival & Inventory – you hard earned cash is your inventory, never stockout
  • Smart Money – follow smart money and supply/demand zones

 

Psychological

 

  • Getting Rich Scheme – means repeatable trading proces plotted into months
  • Market Has No Feelings – you cannot persuade it by speaking
  • Todays market price – has already factored all news and economy
  • Do not chase the price – wait once it back to demand zone

  

Six Types Of Market

 

  • UpQuiet – price is moving up, but the day-to-day activity of the market is not active.
  • UpVolatile price is moving up, and the day-to-day activity of the market is fairly active.
  • SidewaysQuiet – price moves very little over time and the market also shows little day-to-day movement.
  • SidewaysVolatile – price moves very little over time, but the market shows a lot of day-to-day movement.
  • DownQuiet – the price is going down, and the market shows little day-to-day movement.
  • DownVolatile – one of the six types of markets in which the price is going down, but the market shows a lot of up and down movement, as opposed to a down-quiet market.

2. TRADING PLAN

S&P500

 

  1. Trading Hours – 14.00-17.00
  2. Profit Target – 10%
  3. Discipline & System – series of trades (system) over single trade
  4. Smart Money bots and algorithms are targeting liquidations. 
  5. Amount of trades – take 3x high quality trades a day
  6. Supply/Demand  – stop loss 5 points, take profit 15 points, RR 1:3, batch size 1-2x
  7. Scalping – stop loss 2 points, take profit 2 points, batch size 22x, main assumption of being right about direction 60%+, chart 15min.
  8. Trend Following – if market is trending go with the wave and keep trailing stop losses
  9. Batch Size – 4x 2.5

3. CHARTS

15/08/2022 – 21/08/2022

4. Daily summary

UpVolatile

UpQuiet

DownVolatile

Up/SidewaysQuiet

DownVolatile

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