17 Jul 17072019 Wednesday — Trade Plan & Journal
17072019 Wednesday — 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 (for the past week)
- Weekly goal
- Follow health plan
- Perform daily tasks
- 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 slept 7.5 horus last night. I feel OK but not optimal.
- How would you rate it (1–5)? 1/2 = don’t trade 3= quarter position 4= half position 5= full position
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Market Prep
Intraday Technical Analysis
- HHTF
- Yesterday’s trade idea played out better than I thought and we had a HHTFUKCCAR into HHTF50MABD
- HTF
- Prev. High 60.159
- PVAH 60.159
- PPOC 59.520
- PVAL 58.170
- Prev. Low 57.157
- HTF DT however after such a steep drop we have small PA moving laterally above 1.0 SD indicating a potential shift in sentiment again
- TTF
- What has the Asian Session printed?
- Lateral small PA move to HTF VWAP let’s see how the market reacts to this POI based on this we could enhance our bias to the up- or downside
- What trade locations among this structure would l like to get involved in that will offer me the best R/R opportunities?
- TTFLKCBD @ HTF D TC (@VWAP)
- HTF D TT @ VWAP
- What has the Asian Session printed?
Trade Idea
- Hypo 1 Rotational
- TTF R 57.50 — 57.90
- Hypo 2 Long
- HTF D TT @ VWAP
- Entry around 57.85
- Targets 58.10
- Hypo 3 Short
- HTFLKCCAS
- Entry around 58.05
- Targets 57.70, 57.40, extended target 56.50
My goals for the day (Daily Report Card)
- Define winning
- Only trade A/A+ trade ideas
- Forward test experimental trades
Reading the Tape
- What is printing?
- HHTF UKCCAS, HTF D TT, TTF50MACAS into 200MABO, LTF200MACAS into 50MABO U NT
Daily Report Card
Trade Idea
- Hypo 1 Rotational
- TTF R 57.50 — 57.90
- Hypo 2 Long
- HTF D TT @ VWAP
- Entry around 57.85
- Targets 58.10
- Hypo 3 Short
- HTFLKCCAS
- Entry around 58.05
- Targets 57.70, 57.40, extended target 56.50
Date: | 7/17/2019 | Weekly Goal | Execute A+ (TTF TC) / A setups (TTF NT) | |||
Combined Score | 85 | |||||
Process Report Card (10 each) | Performance Report Card (10 each) | |||||
8 | Session PECS | 100% | 10 | Real-time analysis | ||
9 | Hypos | 1/1 | 10 | Setups Identified (inc. TEST) | ||
10 | Market Prep | 1/1 | 10 | Setups taken | ||
10 | Daily review | 1/1 | 0 | Erroneous Entries | ||
8 | Progress tow. weekly goal | 0/1 | 10 | Erroneous Exits | ||
45 | Total | 40 | ||||
- Weekly Goal
- Only trade A/A+ trade ideas
- Forward test experimental trades
- Review
Trade | Entry Errors | Exit Errors | Type Trade | Sizing | Reason to cover | Problem | Proposed solution | |
1 | 0 | 0 | (Experimental) TTF50CAS | 1 | Hit Target | @ TTF200MA | - | - |
2 | 1 | 0 | (Experimental) TTF50CAS | 2 | Hit Target | @TTF50MA | FOMO | Still learning more about this particular setup / trade idea, have taken notes and will rewatch the video + write PB |
3 | 0 | 0 | (Experimental) TTF50CAS | 2 | Scratched | when PA did not move quickly in my favor I scratched it. | - | - |
- How accurate was my assessment of market context?
- Hypo 2 — 90%
- Set target to go to 58.10 but went 58.30, not too big of a deal since I nailed the narrative but still
- Real-time analysis — 100%
- Did well here.
- Hypo 2 — 90%
- How well did I manage my physical, emotional and cognitive states?
- P: Did well here. Even though I slept slightly less than usual and felt groggy in the morning I had decided to only trade half size.
- E: Did well here.
- CS: Did well here. Stayed calm and collected.
- What’s one thing you learned today?
- To trust my trade ideas.
- Positive(s)
- Did well to recognize and trade the narrative
- Did really well on my first trade but feel as if I should have stayed in the trade longer but I took my first target and looked for another entry.
- Negative(s)
- 1 trade I took out of FOMO and did not enter at a good R/R level. I know that if I would have I would not have spent as much mental capital to wait for the market to go in my favor. The best entries are those that bring you to breakeven quickly and then some and you can sit calmly to wait for the move to play out.
- Comments
- Changed Progress towards weekly goal to incorporate half for health task half for daily tasks
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