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