Just a Day Trader

 -$3266 Everything that went wrong was MS -$3728. For starters everything was perfect here. All trend higher, clear pattern flag. Strong industry. ATH.  Day 2 was perfect, clear rel str, reclaim of all MAs and rip with vol. Then FED came. At first it was fine. Pulldown with market weakness, still held trend and MAs higher and close near HOD and on rip reclaim again. Then Thursday Thats where the weakness came in.  Started losing MA trend higher, seeing sells. Clear vwap weakness. 1hr mas losing curling lower. But held bottom of range and 4hr50 which i know to be  major point. I wanted the iron condor. My order was in. Came within 7cents and did not fill. Closed the day just above it, no trade, no 2nd wing, no hedge.  Then the 3% gap down next morning.  Knew it was a max loss scenario. It got even worse. Platform lagged. Had to restart. Put order in, order wouldnt load. Spread wouldnt load. Option master wouldnt load. Restart. Came back, dropped 2 points. Ou...

  +$936 for now +$1001 1st week (including June 30th, which was NOT included in Junes Report) -$929 2nd week (The reason this post happened) +$864 3rd week (Good plans and followed through with highlights in this post This ended up being so big and I still have more to do, im going to separate this month into 2 different ones. This one will be an overview of where my stats are, analysis on them. A bit of risk managment, going over some losers, risk/trade management.  Skip to the bottom to see bullet points learned. Giant chunk in the middle is me analyzing data every which way to adjust RR, Trade management, and expectations.  Goals will be discussed at month end.  OVERTRADING Earlier in the month I knew I needed to add techincals to my stat tracking. What I failed to do is treat some obviou ssetups like I did my breakout trades. In terms of settling for less.  COST CRM GS DIS Either trying to catch tops, ignoring cleear tight 4hr rising MAs that are acting as S...