Running Naked with Scissors. My Price Action based Trading Log

EUR/USD Short
Price: 1.33112 SL 1.3346 TP 1.3261 Closed at 1.33091 Risked .5%

Got short here going after a packet of liquitity. We passed the limit of were i could move to BE and I did. I was actually drunk in the middle of a pub quiz to do that. But at least I walked away with a tiny profit

Net +2.1 pips (its not a loss yay!)

AUD/JPY short
Entry 1 Price 79.463 SL 79.74 TP 79.11 Closed @ 79.109
Entry 2 Price 79.587 SL 79.966 TP 78.746 Closed @ 79.29

This is seriously strange but great for me. Basically I think spread got wide and what my FXtrade vs MT4 says is different, Neither of my orders were stopped out but took full TP. So not going to complain but i was scratching my head for about 20 min trying to figure out what the hell happened.
Dailys

Entry


Average pip win: 32.55 pips
Net capital % .52%

AUD/USD SHort
Entry 1: Price 1.03113 SL 1.0351 TP 1.0253 Closed 1.0253
Entry 2: Price 1.02912 SL 1.0321 TP 1.0256 Closed 1.0321

Daily

Entry

Here i got stopped out on 1 order and the 2nd took profit. But overall still made a profit

Net: +28.5 pips +.11% capital

EUR/USD Short
Price :1.35018 SL 1.3542 TP 1.3457 Closed 1.34566

SO overall a good day. Lots of compound entries but every trade won overall. Which is nice 100% winners is always something to enjoy. Also I am very close to BE again for the week so thats solid.

Trading while drunk?! If you want to make this a successful career then surely you need to start treating this more professionally?!

Anyway, I would strongly advise you to draw more of a distinction between your socializing and your work going forwards, or the wheels are going to come off at some point.

Regardless of all that, that marks the end of my following of this thread. Good luck with it.

ST

Oh Simon I 100% agree with that, I am making a solid rule and never doing that again. Even if its just to move to BE or anything. Its just truly a recipe for disaster. This trade was a limit order that was struck, and i got an alert on my phone is how i found out i was in a position in the first place. I was just doing 100% management. But that is no excuse, even so I should have just let it go. Trust me not losing money while doing it was a great free lesson. Sorry to hear you leave, but I accept it with full responsibility.

Well, respect to you for taking it on the chin. It’s nothing personal, but tbh I have a busy enough day so I tend to be pretty picky about the stuff that I am following and it seemed a little far along in your trading career to be messing about while out socializing, trading drunk at this point suggests that you should be nowhere near live trading, tbh. Think of this as a career, as a job, only one where your salary can fluctuate wildly from month to month in line with your performance. It might have been better for you had it cost you money, to be honest - expensive lessons tend to stick better.

You got lucky this time, but that won’t last, and is no way to approach a career or to expect others to follow you.

But I have been over-preachy, apologies if I came across as grumpy in my first post or sanctimonious on this one, I am just trying to help. I’m sure I will look in from time to time - but please, from now on, choose between socializing and trading rather than trying to do both simultaneously!

Quite apart from anything else, successful trading can provide an above-average income with below-average hours, which means that the socializing becomes pretty straightforward :wink:

ST

No i take your posts with all seriousness, there is no reason why I should have had that kind of behavior. It truly was a childish and dangerous mistake. I definately need to improve myself everyday, thats the name of my game in this trading world. You are always welcome here. Maybe one day it may prove intresting once more. Until that time. Cheers.

Late weekly stat review, been really busy this weekend.

This was my first losing week in a long time. Lost -.6% so its not that bad.

60% win rate overall for the week. But still came out a loser. this is due to the fact that my largest winner was smaller than my largest loser. Something that’s not very good.

well its time to start this week off strong. I am not held back by a tiny loss. considering that everyone is going to have losing weeks sometime. So everyone good luck on the trading week. I take solace in the fact that I am still a net profitable trader. Trust me not by much but still black is black.

Net -.6%

Wow yesterday as the first day in over a month where i took absolutely ZERO trades. I didnt feel stressed about not taking anything. which is very good as it show progress in my own discipline. I got to watch a movie and make a big dinner waiting for my alerts. But it does hurt the bottom line not having an good trade opportunity, but not as bad as taking a loser from a less than optimal set up is.

Only Trade so far this week. Really been a quiet one for me. Actually my MT4 platform had spikes and gaps that did not exist in real data stream. So i am on the horn with support now, seems like theres nothing they can do thus far but i still got a good trade off.

CHF/JPY - Long
Price 83.801 SL 83.382 TP 84.254 Closed 84.256

So I missed my entry because MT4 had a spike that did not exist, 10 pips wide. So everything was shifted down by 10 pips. Which ment I missed my fill by 4 but upon looking at Think or swim and other platforms it was clear as day that it was just my MT4. So I hopped on the train on a retrace into that pinbar. I would have instantly TP’d if i had gotten my original trade but i still took my full TP it just took longer. Got 1.125:1 RR But took a smaller risk than usual due to the mess up 50% of normal positions

Levels:

Entry:

The check mark was where i was supposed to be filled but due to MT4 bullsheet, stuff messed up. still basically took the entire move though.

Net: + 45 pips .28% (risking .25%)

CAD/CHF Short
Price: 0.9187 SL 0.9221 TP 0.91484 Closed with squeeze at 0.91573

Level

Entry

I would have gotten in and nearly TP’d on that first pinbar but my platform didnt even show it piercing the level at first. then i missed it by spread the 2nd tiem so i just took a market. Yeah it was a whole lot of bullsh#t but i called service and they basically told me to suck it up. Anyway. profit is profit

Net +29.7 pips +.20% (risked .25% with 1:1)

Well this marks the end of my trading for the year until January. I will post up reflections stats and such. I am currently waiting in the airport to fly off on a holiday. It’s been a great journey thus far I have enjoyed every minute of it. From the novice trying to trade naked and taking a huge hit to capital to ending up the year as a net profitable trader. yes it’s not by much but it’s a great goal that I was able to achieve and will help me bring in the new year with rigor and a drive to succeed. Well happy holidays to all of you traders out there. Don’t forget to enjoy yourselves once in a while. As always Cheers and good pippin’

These stats that are below are for the formalized system I have been following for the last couple of months. I have come a long way in my opinion over my thread here, from my first trade until my most recent one. From experimenting with pure PA, to trying ICTs techniques, to finding Sam Seiden’s Supply and demand then looking at Eremarket. Along with countless other methods and books. After that I really found something that gelled with me. I have studied around 1000 hours since the beginning of this journey. And as a results driven guy, this is what I have to show for it. Might not be much but its something.

Mei Hua’s Statistical Results:

Risk of Ruin:
Loss Size 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40%
Probability of Loss <0.01% <0.01% <0.01% <0.01% <0.01% <0.01% 0.04%
Consecutive Losing Trades 415 373 332 290 249 207 166
30% 20% 10%
0.46% 3.45% 20.39%
124 83 41

Winrate Overall 61%
Winrate Entry Type 1 (SnD): 65%
Winrate Entry Type 2: 57%

Longs Won: (8/22) 36%
Shorts Won: (32/51) 62%

Ratio of Entries Used: 1:1

Overall Expectancy (pips): 9.32
Expectancy Entry Type 1: 16.24
Expectancy Entry Type 2: 2.41

Best Trade Return: 1.8%+ (87.9 pips)
Worst Trade Return: -1.3% (-53.7 Pips)

Longest Win Streak: 7
Longest Losing Streak: 6

Profit Factor: 1.13

Sharpe Ratio: 0.06

Z-Score: -2.4 (99.99%)

APHR: 0.04%
GHPR: 0.01%

Average Trade Length: 6H 19M
Gain (TWR): [B]+2.65%[/B]
Absolute Gain (affected by withdraws and deposits): [B]1.01%[/B]


Take Away:

I am an Net Profitable trader, obviously not by much but from having a draw down of 20% of my account. Then turning around becoming Break even and then depositing more money in and then making additional equity on that was really nice.

My Trades are held for a significant period of time. So i don’t have to stare at the chart every minute of every trade.

Win more Shorts than Longs, but i think that’s just a product of the environment more than the bias of my trade system. Though I could be wrong, that will take further analysis to determine.

Positive Sharpe and Profit ratio are always nice. This is what gives me the most confidence knowing that I have a statistical edge over the market. Albeit a small one, but I know that when i put a trade down more likely than not I will walk away with more money than i started with.

Also My risk of ruin scenario is really good IMHO, its highly improbable that I will lose even 30% of my account as that is less than .5%. So i know I have good money management and the ability to survive this learning curve and come out the other side.

More end of year analysis and reflection to come. Also creating a plan for the new year.

Hey guys, just dropping a line from the beach in the Caribbean. Hope everyone is doing well. I haven’t open a chart in days as i have not had internet. today i have satellite internet so i thought i would open up some charts and check the forum. Wow definitely some hilarious posts happening in there.

I have done a TON of reading and researching. But this quote really struck me as the essence of what people here struggle to do. to go from uninformed trader to informed trader.

“Adverse selection helps us understand why uninformed traders lose whether they submit limit orders or market orders. (…) Uninformed traders thus lose however they trade. [B][U]If they want to avoid losing, they must avoid trading.[/U][/B]”

  • Lawrence E. Harris, Ph.D., CFA
    Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance
    Professor of Finance and Business Economics

Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California

Happy New Year Fellow traders.

Its a brand new year with brand new possibilities. For me personally its about developing my trading and building success in it. That is my goal for this up coming year. [B]In short, I would like to build and sustain consistent profitability[/B]. To that end I would like to make a commitment to attempting to be come a full time trader. But lets define that for a second here, I would like to make enough income to cover my living expenses as they currently stand today, Rent, Food, basic transport etc. Nothing really fancy or extravagant life changing stuff. By full time I mean being able to do this 8+ hours a day with little interference from other commitments. Obviously I can choose not to trade of my own volition and do something else, but isn’t that part of the ‘trading dream’ :stuck_out_tongue: Well I guess this is really my Trading ‘New Years’ Resolution. So lets put this into some quantifiable goals. I will also be upping my trading account balance to a much larger sum in order to allow me to meet these goals.

Trading New Years Resolutions:

  1. to build and maintain constant trading profitability
    I am not dead set on this yet but I think not having a losing quarter would be completely feasible.

  2. Commit to trading full time
    Putting in 40+ hours a week dedicated to trading

  3. Using profits to pay for basic living expenses
    My largest expenses are Rent and Food, if by the end of the year I was paying off these bills constantly through trading while still building up my trading capital. I would be a very very happy camper.

Wow first day back has been well, really showing me what this is going to take. I just finished doing all my analysis and putting in orders all 67 of them. Took me over 6 hours to do all the analysis and entry. But i still beat LO. I started sunday afternoon but i completely forgot in the USA the asian market opens on sunday afternoon. I am so used to being in tokyo time zone that it didnt even occur to me. I just started to do my usual sunday prep and then all of a sudden my charts started to move.

FACEPALM

67 orders?

Would you have time to monitor all?

The orders are there but that doesn’t mean they will trigger simultaneously. At most i have 3 trades at one time.

First Trades of the year. Was a slight losing day. But nothing really significant.

SHORT EUR/GBP
Price: 0.82352 SL:0.8265 TP: 0.8265 Stopped out at SL
This was my first trade, turned out to be a loser. I had all sorts of emotions going through me at this trade, I didn’t alter my trade in anyway. But i did have a lot of emotions, i guess that’s why using limit orders makes my life easier.

Net : -1% -29.8 pips

SHORT EUR/CHF
Price 1.21379 SL: 1.217 TP: 1.2103 Closed at squeeze 1.21174

Out of a little bit of fear and just getting nervous about trading with higher capital. I slashed my risk in half. I don’t know if you can really be at fault for cutting risk after a loss. I just feel bad now cause i would have won more, but we all know its the risk of losing more and getting into a losing streak that’s the more pressing matter.

Net: +.34% +20.5 pips

Total: -.66 %

AUD/USD Short
Price:1.03186 SL 1.0358 TP 1.0278 Closed at squeeze: 1.0305
Great entry with a perfect wick fill, cant get more accurate than that. Was heading towards my TP but then whipsawed back quickly and then back down and up again. I got taken out during my squeeze. my NZD/USD short didn’t get triggered but would have worked out since they are both correlated.

Net + .12% 13.6 pips

CAD/JPY
Price 75.594 SL 75.99 TP 75.18 Closed at squeeze 75.477

Pretty good entry here as well. i am getting filld in the top 20% of wicks which is nice. Anyway this just basically broke my squeeze barrier before it just ripped back up. So i locked in another small winner.

Net +.11% 11.7 pips

2 trades 2 wins. small profits. well it could be worse. we have had really ranging whipsaw days.

EUR/USD short
Price 1.26884 SL 1.2721 TP: 1.2652 Closed at SL

We almost made it to the TP, I think I should have probably moved to BE, I dont have rules for these smaller trades that allow me to do that, but i am considering adding something to remove risk when i am deeper into profit. I hate letting winners turn losers. But then squeezing too much kills profit margins.

Net: -.82% -32.6pips

GBP/CHF Long
Entry 1: Price 1.45889 SL 1.4549 TP 1.4629 Closed at SL
Entry 2: Price 1.45491 SL 1.4509 TP 1.4629 Closed at SL

Daily level pic:

Entry Pic

Risk per entry .375%

NET: -.77% -80 pips