December 2011. results and year end

December

-158 pips
-44 %

Year

- 88 %

Rest of December

 8.
-17 pips

9.
-46 pips
Didn't capture chart.

 16.
+2 pips
 

 21.
-58 pips
  Raging after good start.

First few days of December

1.

+3 pips

Probes on the downside didn't work. Upside was later also limited. I did trade only when I see possible opportunity and didn't bother with rest of it.




2.

- 11 pips

I forgot that I should trade only fast market and skip market like this. Old habits die hard, and when start is wrong I usually keep going same way.


5.

-31 pips

This is brilliant example how bad is it to do things wrong way. Just because I thought that market will break massively I left great scalps on the table. I couldn't believe that I could pick that many good entries one after another.

November 2011. results

-31 %

-108 pips

Nowadays I use my account as some kind of demo platform. I prefer trading with small account to trading imaginary dollars. Emotions are real even if amounts are really small.

My intention is to stabilize my trading. Trading inside my risk boundaries, picking only market that is suitable for me. I still breach discipline, look for home runs and forget not to trade on days that are not fast and directional. Still I'm making some progress, like I accepted daily loss limit (daily stop) and on most days I stick with it. When I breach it, I know I don't want to do that and it's harder and harder to be undisciplined.

Rest of November

21.

-1 pip



22.

+7 pips



23.

-16 pips





25.

Didn't took screenshot, random market, random trading.
-10 pips


29.

+34 pips

Like shooting duck in a barrel. This is the only kind of market I should be trading. Sometimes duck can shoot back, so better to make everything as easy as it can be.

Last week

Finally I started to trade in between boundaries. Limiting my daily downside to acceptable 15 pips or so. Trading last week in those boundaries wasn't fruitful but I'm happy that I stayed with it. Basically it was all scalping in small range and that's hard for me. Exception was Friday when I really wasn't trading but I had charts open doing some profile setup experiments. Price started to fly and I took profitable trade. If I could only wait for that kind of fast momentum driven market and abandon everything else.

14.

-15 pips



15.

-15 pips




16.

-18 pips

Breach of discipline but after I made and lost on that last trade after -15 pips limit I stopped trading and wasn't tempted.



18.

+11 pips

Great market movement for scalping strong and decisive not usual lately.