Sep 17, 2018 – Hurdles

Premarket Insight

Volume seems a bit low for a Monday as of 07:50 ET as I do my volume check. Seems to be a bit of hesitation in the markets due to continuation of “trade war” tariffs talk between the U.S. and China. At this point, NQ pretty much trading sideways with no real volatility, volume at 40k. Fingers crossed for things to pick up at the open.

Nothing significant on the calendar today.

 

COB Recap

Super volatile price action at the open tricked me and I missed my entry for a short trade I had setup but removed because it seemed price action was reversing. Feeling frustration from that I ended up over-managing later trades and decided to end my day early after the second scalp. Took away $50 but should have been $400 had I let those trades play out per the strategy. I seriously need to get over this hurdle of over-managing my trades.

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Sep 14, 2018 – Follow the Plan

Premarket Insight

Contract month rollover for many futures today. Indices (NQ, ES, YM, etc) as well as currency futures rolling over to Z (December). Not much action in the after hours leading up to the Retail Sales report at 08:30 ET. From my watchlist, NQ and GC got a slight bump in European market hours. Volume is a bit lighter than we’ve seen so far this month, more than likely due to the contract rollovers.

On the calendar today, Double Retail Sales reports at 08:30 ET.

 

COB Recap

Long story short, had a plan, let fear based off surprising price action get me away from my plan, got off to a bad start and had to climb my way back from not so much of a bad loss in a choppy market. Even with all the chop should have been green but it is what it is. After taking clawing my way back bit-by-bit to under $100 in the whole decided to just throw in the towel and keep myself in the green for the month. There’s still two weeks left in the month. I can make it up next week.

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

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Sep 13, 2018 – Minor Setback

Premarket Insight

Should be interesting to see how the market responds to Hurricane Florence. According to investing.com, energy, insurance, materials, and industrial stocks tend to get a boost in activity during natural disasters. So far, the European bulls came to play strong in the market.

On the calendar today, Core CPI at 08:30 ET. Fed is scheduled to speak at 10:00 ET but has low prediction of affecting the markets.

 

COB Recap

First red day of the month. Had some issues with my chart platform due to NQ rolling over to the next contract month automatically which resulted in me taking a scalp on the first trade that should have hit target.

Not too bad making it almost half the month without a losing today. In retrospect, might have been a bit too aggressive on a rollover day with how far the price had already pushed since the premarket. Price got super choppy before 11:00 ET. There’s a chance I could make it back but due to previous red days like this, just going to take my losses here and trade another day.

Today is the primary reason why I need to let my winners play out to hit the target. These losses wouldn’t have as big of an impact to my P/L.

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