Trading Journal – Week 3

Jan 16, 2023 | Trading Journal

TRADING JOURNAL

A trading journal is a powerful tool meant to help become a profitable and stronger trader. Essentially, it is a written record of what happened during a trade.

1. TRADING RULES & PLAN

General

 

  • Risk & Personal Responsibility – the only way to survive in the long term
  • Gambling – in/out 100x a day without big picture
  • Survival & Inventory – you hard earned cash is your inventory, never stockout
  • Patience – wait for big market moves, give price time to executes
  • Turtles wins the race think in terms of months / years compounding power 
  • Self-disciplinemaking a conscious commitment to pay attention to what you are doing
  • Getting Rich Scheme – means repeatable trading proces plotted into months
  • Market Has No Feelings – you cannot persuade it
  • Todays market price – has already factored all news and economy
  • Do not chase the price – wait once it back to demand zone
  • Do NOT fall in love with markets – being profitable means often boring, not excitement, it must generate money for your living, not consuming time only

 

S&P 500 / BTC – Trading Rules

 

  • Entry
    • when you enter a trade do not look at profits to take, start from exit in the worst case scenario first. Which means lower levarage. Less profits but profits. Week by week will increase.
  • Stop Loss
    • no stress, no blow up account, liquidation of positions cannot be reachable ideally 2x lowest/biggest position and not less than 30%
  • Follow intraday price action
    • it does not matter what you think will happen
    • 50% times your assumptions will be wrong 
    • the only thing matter is price action
    • follow smart money, whales, intraday action
    • do not stay angry, just follow price flow
  • Be consistent winner
    • pyramid winning positions
    • book profits often
    • move stop loss to breakeven
    • you trade your account, not instrument
    • finish day with win trade
  • Assess market phase
    • based on daily/weekly/monthly time frame (up, down, sideways, reversal up/down)
    • check top 6 Stocks (20% market cap) – assess Risk Reward direction
    • check EUR/USD trajectory
  • Analyse institutional tools:
    • VWAP – assess phase: balanced (rotational), imbalanced (trend), reversal (imb. failed), breakout (balance failed)
    • Footprint – check out on 4h in which direction there are smart / institutional orders placed
    • Market Blocks/Letters – next potential targets depend on scenario
  • Track US economical calendar
    • Be aware about when big meetings takes place
  • Play defense game
    • Trade only when you spot great quality set ups
    • Checkout morning EU and afternoon US opens
    • Eliminate bad habits – limit amount of trades
    • Increase batch size instead amount of trades
  • BIG wins
    • are crucial to stay positive & get motivated!
    • when market gives you signal MUST take it

16/01/2023 -20/01/2023

2. Daily summary

SP500/BTC ↔ buy

SP500/BTC ↔ sell

SP500/BTC ↔ sell

SP500/BTC ↔ ranging (NO trading day)

SP500/BTC ↔ buy

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