Trading Journal – Week 40

Oct 1, 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 & PLAN

IGeneral

 

  • Risk & Personal Responsibility – the only way to survive in the long term
  • Gambling – in/out 100x a day without big picture
  • Survival & Inventory – you hard earned cash is your inventory, never stockout
  • Patience – wait for big market moves, give price time to executes
  • Turtles wins the race think in terms of months / years compounding power 
  • Self-disciplinemaking a conscious commitment to pay attention to what you are doing
  • Getting Rich Scheme – means repeatable trading proces plotted into months
  • Market Has No Feelings – you cannot persuade it
  • Todays market price – has already factored all news and economy
  • Do not chase the price – wait once it back to demand zone
  • Do NOT fall in love with markets – being profitable means often boring, not excitement

S&P 500 / BTC – Trading Rules

 

  • Assess market phase
    • based on daily/weekly/monthly time frame (up, down, sideways, reversal up/down)
    • check top 6 Stocks (20% market cap) – assess RiskReward direction
  • Analyse institutional tools:
    • VWAP – assess phase: balanced (rotational), imbalanced (trend), reversal (imb failed), breakout (balance failed)
    • Footprint – check out on 4h in which direction there are smart / institutional orders placed
    • Market Blocks/Letters – next potential targets depend on scenario
  • Track US economical calendar
    • Be aware about BIG meetings markets are waiting for
  • General
    • Trade only between 14-16 EU time, during US open
    • Limit amount of trades to max 3x – pick up only highest quality set ups
    • Increase batch size instead amount of trades
    • Being wrong – you will be wrong ~50% times, keep two scenarios

3. CHARTS

02/10/2022 – 09/10/2022

Top 6x Global Indices

Top 6 Global Currencies

Top 6x US Stocks (20%) S&P500

Top 6x (personal) Crypto

Market Assumptions

Market Week Close

VWAP Week Close

Footprint Week Close

Footprint Week Close

4. Daily summary

SP500/BTC ↔ breakout up, relief rally

i was early buyer who was kicked out 35x times, stay more patient and wait for a confirmations it won’t go down anymore

SP500/BTC ↔ up

only add to positions, breakout continuation

SP500/BTC ↔ up

only add, buy continuation

SP500/BTC ↔ sales

start selling and sideways

SP500/BTC ↔ strong sell!

last day of a week, strong sales driven by emplopyment report, however it could be predicted by looking at 20% SP500 charts

SP500/BTC ↔ sales

follow up sales

SP500/BTC ↔ sales

follow up sales

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