Just a Day Trader

MARCH MONTHLY REVIEW +3410$ 1 st week Coming back to business, feeling good, just trying to remember where I’m at. 2 nd week Felt like I picked things back up very quickly this time around. I remembered where I left off, and traded like it. Didn’t make too many mistakes, caught some nice wins and we move on. 3 rd week Thursday was dead cat bounce day so I got long a whole lot of stuff. Was getting chopped and tossed around everywhere though. P/l has never gone from red to green to red to green so many times. Ended the day nicely green but a huge headache from all the observing.   Amazing tape cues easily spotted. Will be a goal for tomorrow is to add after tape cues if I have time and price hasn’t moved drastically far. Friday was a totally different day. Got chopped to hell and had to cool off. Couldn’t catch a good winner but stayed away majority of the day. Took good trades with good cues, just no follow through. The faster we can recognize a market regime ...

Im getting tired of all the writing and typing I would do on word documents and screen-shotting them and posting on twitter. I had an idea the other day that I should start a blog instead. Early in my career I would type out everything I thought alongside reviews. It was a lot, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly. It benefited me greatly to do those things to keep myself honest about mistakes and positives. I had tons of ideas and thoughts that needed to get out on something. That same style doesnt benefit me as much anymore. In fact it feels better to do the opposite. To try and find reasons not to write. I think in the beginning I was hounding myself about my mistakes so majority of my write ups were negative. I was ok with determining my mistakes, writing it out, digging into it, posting it for interactions. Now I simply dont care to as much. Im not perfect, Im still making mistakes here and there. It is less though. Its not daily, its maybe every other day. Im getting a lot better ...

Back in December last year I realized I had way too much on my plate to handle. I was renovating a house, planning a wedding, moving, preparing for Christmas, and trying to trade all at once. It was all too much for me to handle at one time and it was starting to show in my trading. Not only in the p/l but also the way I felt about it. I didnt have that same fire I usually had about everyday preparation and review I had the months earlier. So I stopped for a while. I didnt know when I was going to be able to come back, I didnt have a timeline for anything that was going on on when the house would be done, when we would move in and if we would have enough money to pay for the wedding. Way too much uncertainty in my life, how could I possibly be certain in my trading. It was tough to put it aside, and its made me realize a few things 1. Trading is a privilege. Anyone can open a brokerage account with a hundred dollars, but trading the way you want is where the majority miss out. 25...