08 Jul 08072019 Monday — Trade Plan & Journal
08072019 Monday — Trade Plan & Journal
Terminology (partially made up by yours truly)
- PA = Price Action
- BO = Break Out
- BD = Break Down
- CAR = Confirm As Resistance
- CAS = Confirm As Support
- UKC = Upper Keltner Channel
- LKC = Lower Keltner Channel
- TV = Tick Volume
- WPP = Weekly Pivot Point
- DPP = Daily Pivot Point
- DR = Daily Resistance (pivot)
- DS = Daily Support (pivot)
- WR = Weekly Resistance (pivot)
- WS = Weekly Support (pivot)
- HL = Higher Low
- HH = Higher High
- LH = Lower High
- LL = Lower Low
- SD = Standard Deviation
- VWAP = Volume Weighted Average Price
- AS = Asian Session
- LS = London Session (EU)
- NY = New York Session (US)
- R/R = Risk to Reward
- M2M = Move to Move
- T2H = Trade to Hold
- DT = DownTrend
- UT = UpTrend
- LTF = Lower Time Frame
- TTF = Trading Time Frame
- HTF = Higher Time Frame
- Hypo = HYPOthetical
Health review
5 positive 1 negative | Mon |
- | 8/7 |
Time bed yesterday | 0:36 |
woke up | 8:18 |
Hours sleep | 7:42 |
According to Fitbit | 6:38 |
Awake | 1:04 |
Times awake | 39x |
REM | 0:36 |
Light | 4:49 |
Deep | 1:13 |
Sleep well? | 4 |
Sleep Aid? | no |
Alcohol yesterday? | 0 |
Wore Fitbit? | yes |
Performed Daily Tasks? | yes |
Performed Health Tasks? | no |
Exercise yesterday? | no |
Coffees yesterday | 2 |
Intermittent fasting | no |
Water L | 2 |
Vitamins | no |
Cigarettes | 3 |
- Weekly goal
- Follow health plan
- How do you feel? Have you recently had a break of daily routine (like a trip)? Did you have 2 (or more) nights of insufficient sleep?
- I feel good. Over the weekend I slept well Friday night and a bit less Saturday night (about 7) although not too bad. Last night I slept fine, almost 8 hours.
- How would you rate it (1–5)? 1/2 = don’t trade 3= quarter position 4= half position 5= full position
- 5
Market Prep
Intraday Fundamentals
- API report
- Tomorrow
- EIA report
- Wednesday
Intraday Technical Analysis
- HTF
- Define context
- Where were the overnight highs and lows and PVA?
- High 57.804
- PVAH 57.305
- PPOC 56.833
- PVAL 56.443
- Low 56.330
- Where is the LIS?
- PVAH area
- What didn’t happen?
- No hard HTF200MABO rather a hard reject followed by small PA that crossed the 200MA
- Dialling in on opportunities
- Is there a shift in value/excess migration? What is the current market condition? Are we trending, balancing/range bound? Where are we in the trend range axis?
- We crossed out of HTF R resistance possible follow-through on move however be open for a move back in
- Is there a shift in value/excess migration? What is the current market condition? Are we trending, balancing/range bound? Where are we in the trend range axis?
- Where were the overnight highs and lows and PVA?
- Define context
- TTF
- What trade locations among this structure would l like to get involved in that will offer me the best R/R opportunities?
- HTF200MACAS
- What has the Asian Session printed?
- HTF VWAP PB and PA moved back into HTF KC
- What trade locations among this structure would l like to get involved in that will offer me the best R/R opportunities?
Trade Idea
- Hypo 1 Long
- HTF200MACAS
- Entry around 57.50
- Targets 56.70
- Hypo 2 Short
- TTFUKCCAR
- Entry around 57.70
- Targets 57.50
- Hypo 3 Rotational 57.50 — 57.80
My goals for the day (Daily Report Card)
- Define winning
- Only focus on A/A+ setups and work on consistency in taking them. To have a better sample size I will need to go through a few cycles before I can think of the next level. Do this for the next month at least. It would be 3 months by then and I can analyze my trading and reassess if need be.
Reading the Tape
- What is printing?
- 17:05
- TTF R Overbought after a HM move up, now back into KC
- HTF has broken out from HTF R resistance it seems, so possible continuation on HTF UT
- TTF R AD above 50MA/HTF VWAP
- 17:35
- Possible TTF Oversold that is at HTF 50MA (which is crossing up over the 200MA)
- 18:05
- Short term reversal after TTF R OVersold however unconvincing move up possible continuation to downside, won’t take any trades until there is more clarity
- 18:35
- No clarity yet. Possible HTF50MACAS or perhaps a BD
- Good day to document a HTF 50MA cross up over 200MA
- 19:05
- No signs of BD or reversal at this level
- 19:35
- Market has not made a move, HTF AD above 50MA
- 17:05
Daily Report Card
Trade Idea
- Hypo 1 Long
- HTF200MACAS
- Entry around 57.50
- Targets 56.70
- Hypo 2 Short
- TTFUKCCAR
- Entry around 57.70
- Targets 57.50
- Hypo 3 Rotational 57.50 — 57.80
Date: | 7/8/2019 | Weekly Goal | Execute A+ (TTF TC) / A setups (TTF NT) | |||
Combined Score | 92 | |||||
Process Report Card (10 each) | Performance Report Card (10 each) | |||||
5 | Session PECS | 90% | 9 | Real-time analysis | ||
8 | Hypos | 1/1 | 10 | Setups Identified (inc. TEST) | ||
10 | Trading the process | 1/1 | 10 | Setups taken | ||
10 | Daily review | 0/1 | 10 | Erroneous Entries | ||
10 | Progress tow. weekly goal | 0/1 | 10 | Erroneous Exits | ||
43 | Total | 49 | ||||
- Weekly Goal
- Only focus on A/A+ setups and work on consistency in taking them. To have a better sample size I will need to go through a few cycles before I can think of the next level. Do this for the next month at least. It would be 3 months by then and I can analyze my trading and reassess if need be.
- Did well here. Focussing on taking less trades even for the experimental ones and changed my logging format a bit in a more quantitative way.
- Only focus on A/A+ setups and work on consistency in taking them. To have a better sample size I will need to go through a few cycles before I can think of the next level. Do this for the next month at least. It would be 3 months by then and I can analyze my trading and reassess if need be.
- Review
- Had one real trade idea and took it.
- How accurate was my assessment of market context?
- Hypo 2 — 80%
- The move turned out to be more overbought then a CAR
- Real-time analysis
- Did fairly OK here.
- Hypo 2 — 80%
- How well did I manage my physical, emotional and cognitive states?
- P: Thought I wouldn’t be this tired but I am. Took extra caution.
- E: Did well here.
- CS: At times it was hard to concentrate because of being tired but I did well to follow my plan.
- Positive(s)
- Did well to stay composed even though being a bit tired.
- Negative(s)
- Even though I felt fine in the morning and early afternoon I started to feel tired during the session. I’ve logged in my journal about this.
Feedback?
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