Monday, September 9, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Trading Plan - Trend Line Bounce N Breaks
This is draft of my trading plan. From today, I m going to take trades in a demo account until I ll be profitable for consecutive 3 months. I m starting with an equity of $2500.
- Know yourself, Know your purpose
- Why do you want to be a trader?
- Current job is sometime stressful, difficult ot take leave
- Job very harmful for health
- To fulfill my dreams eg: Range rover
- Would love to be part of 5% of people
- What sort of trader are you?
- You can call me medium day trader. With my day job, I can manage to look at H4 closes.
- What are your strength & weakness?
- Strength: Ability to let the profits run.
- Weakness: Wanting to re-cope a loss quickly
- Are you in right frame of mind to trade?
- I will only trade on days when I am rested, relaxed and not distracted by work or family. I will not trade on days when I m feeling hangover, tired or when I am mentally distracted by event in my life.
- What are your Income targets?
- monthly $200
- 1 year - $2500 ie 100% per year.
- maximum draw down 30%
- What is your trading goal?
- Max 9 trades per month
- Win ratio 3:2
- If attained we will go to BBQ nation
- Pre-market Routines
- Which time fame(TF) will you trade?
- I ll max go down to H1 not beyond that.
- What is your daily pre-market routine?
- To analyse and log yesterdays trade. Review any open positions, update TP & SL. Initial selection of possible instruments to trade.
- Have you analysed yesterdays trades?
- Each day I ll ensure that yesterday's trade was analysed and logged and that my trading journal is upto date.
- Risk & Money Management
- What is your risk to reward ratio?
- Equal or greater than 1:2
- Risk per trade - 2%
- When will you stop trading?
- When we loose 6% in a week - stop trading for current week.
- Will you locking profits?
- I ll utillize the trailing stops which I ll position at previous swing high or lows.
- How will you determine your position size?
- Exit Strategy
- Will you exit before you SL is hit?
- No
- Which signal will see you exit completely?
- If the TL which I am riding is broken
- If it hit trailing SL which is 2R from the peek
- Which signal will see you a close half?
- I ll exit half my positions when I see a bounce from major Monthly, Weekly or Daily SR lines.
- Which strategy will you trade?
- Trendline bounces and breaks.
- Setups and Entries
- What are your set-ups?
- Find out trending pairs in monthly, weekly or daily
- Dras TL in H4 or daily
- Trade the bounces from TL & trade the breaks after retest.
- End of Day
- Have you recorded today trade?
- Did you executed trades according to your plan?
- Have you completed your trading journal?
- Discipline
- What are the punishments if you break your trading plan?
- What questions do you ask after winning a trade?
- What questions do you ask after losing a trade?
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