Week 3

The trading week went well, I finished up after costs on every day this week. Monday was a half day due to it being a US public holiday and I am finishing early today so it was a shorter week than I might otherwise try to do. To be honest I gave it everything and I am really exhausted and I feel I may trade badly because I felt I could have done a bit better today and by nature I am a perfectionist even though I am happy with today. Today I felt the market was coming down considerably and I made money selling it although I feel a little frustrated because it can take forever to happen and I often find it hard to hang on to a thought from so long ago when the market is clearly quite neutral and to be honest I am still not exactly sure in situations like this. I guess I find it difficult to work out which is better, that is to trade what I am feeling as a whole or to try to get in and out on what I am reading now. Although saying that yesterday I had that feeling and it went down but kinda ran out of steam so not holding onto a move that never happened turned out good, so I might just be being results orientated.. and to be honest its hard to know exactly whats gonna happen as a lot of reactions in the market that my mind is trying to predict are yet to happen. In the end I am sitting there for 20 minutes and it still hasn't gone much.. I guess I am not really trading long time frames, although I wish I could have sold a clip and scalped with another.. just my account is not ready for that at this point. In the end its not exactly easy because there are lots of bounce backs before it continues down and you can't just hold it because if your wrong your already like 10 ticks offside until you realize its a reversal and I am not trying to trade like that, its just sometimes I can't believe the market hasn't gone more so I just take it, ah anyway... I feel I am good at holding a trade though and at least I am not jumping out of profits because I am worried about losing them, although when I am reading the tape and its telling me to take profit even though I may have held the entire move and captured all I can.. what happens is it bounces a few ticks and then the next move down comes, which i anticipated and I find it hard to jump on it in time. I guess at least I am reading it pretty well, rather than getting stuck on the wrong side like when I first started. I feel better venting that, so I can enjoy the weekend now :)

My account has done a big U turn, which is pretty awesome because all I want to be able to do is keep on trading.

Trades: 279
Gross: $2025
Net: $1117.22

Week 2

A difficult week... but it was a lot worse at one point.


Trades: 207
Gross: -$43.75
Net: -$712.29

Week 1

Unfortunately I started trading when the market had its biggest move in 2 years, as always I have horrible timing. Not that it matters because I just act on tape reading, so a big move can be very profitable at times its just I was settling down with real money and felt a bit uneasy in my first hour and it was plummeting, I didnt really lose much but the next day I did and I realized I was sick.. I traded the next couple days and realized okay I am quite sick. I also traded outside the hours I was trading on the sim and realized its a terrible idea to trade with low volume, its difficult to read and I filtered my trades to within peak hours and it showed I was actually up and all my loses had been outside those hours. I suffered a $1300 loss in total after costs and as christmas and new year were approaching I had to take 2 weeks off because I didnt wanna blow my chance trading over a period where many traders arent at their desks, the market behaves differently at these times..

I planned on starting on the 8th of Jan and to keep within the hours, so I only trade when theres good volume, but i couldnt wait any longer. It seemed most people were back so I wiped the loss out of my mind and traded. I felt it was a little difficult at times, it felt a bit glitchy to me and i hovered around breakeven until Friday where I put in a pretty good day.

I decided to make this week 1 as its the first week of 2018.

Week 1

Trades: 107

Gross: $525

Net: $180.46

All in all I was happy with my trading, I know I can improve, I missed some excellent opportunities by hesistating and I feel if I can continue making money it will only help me relax and trade better. 

I have now rented an office and set it all up. I will begin trading sometime this week. This blog is quite old now and i really hope from this point onwards i will be doing this every day for years to come. There have been set backs and good trading results infact but i havent quite ever made it properly and that has really been almost entirely due to outside factors. At the same time I am yet to really trade outright on a single market live with positive results, but i have only ever traded outright for 2 days. I traded for almost 2 years at a prop firm initially but that was trading spreads and i made very little for myself after desk fees and such. It was when i got very sick with glandular fever and my stuff was stolen in my flat, family problems, girl broke up with me all within a month it caused me to quit trading with that prop firm. Since then its been a battle and life just went in another direction. But here I am trying because I feel this is what i love and this is what i am good at or would have been good at.

I have been trading on the simulator for a few weeks but i have changed to commodities. I am havin treeg good results.

I have had a lot happen in recent years, some too personal to share but i feel my mind sometimes getting so frustrated with people and life, i dont really show it unless i know the person extremely well. I feel like my mind weights factors and maps possible likely paths and i see the big picture. I researched in my spare time from time to time and after discovering more about the mind, synesthesia, which could actually explain why i can kind of 'see' huge mappings and weightings in my head, but someone told me i may be gifted, who knows me very well and they were reading a book on it. I didnt think so but naturally i read up on it and discovered i fit the traits extremely well. I read more and more and althought i never considered an IQ test as accurate i read how they are actually a pretty good measure of 'g' fluid intelligence, which i kinda gatherered, i expect some pretty high correlation naturally.. Its the same for digit spans, which i can do 10 or 11 digits.. 7 is average. Anyway i decided an IQ test would be a good starting point. After all i like challenges. I went along and did the test, result was 142 IQ, 99.744th percentile. Thing is i never use good english, long words.. Lol. Im not that annoying guy who does that, but ive been hiding myself a long time. I guess naturally i just learnt to cope and fit better, i hate changing myself, but i guess when stuff isnt logically right or kinda dumb, i often just look bored actually it feels like every 3 minutes that stuff bugs me. People who know me well know i rant alot.. I also read people well, i know i do. Thing is ive always felt disconnected and on my own, because nobody seems to be able to get on my layer, well some and i became good friends with them.

Im more focussed on trading than my owb intelligence so ill draw this to a close. Maybe ill make a proper post about it, but my pc is at the office and im typing this ony phone.. Its too slow for my liking.

Trading results to come.. Hopefully week on week results. Unless it goes bad and ill give a post or something.

Serious Luck

I have decided to put trading on hold as having a baby and getting ready to move back to UK, sorting out everything makes its difficult to trade right now. In the mean time I decided to put some time into making a website...

I have always been somewhat interested in luck and how it impacts us and so I would like to share it here.. I really believe it is the best thing ever written about luck and I have always found statistics and seeing the bigger picture is what I excel at. I feel luck is so misunderstood and so please do check it out.

www.seriousluck.com