Monday, September 9, 2013

CadChf Short

Reasons:

1) In the direction of main tread
2) Bounce from TL
3) Bounce from Monthly SR
4) Hidden divergence




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
  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. What are your strength & weakness?
    • Strength: Ability to let the profits run.
    • Weakness: Wanting to re-cope a loss quickly
  4. 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.
  5. What are your Income targets?
    • monthly $200
    • 1 year - $2500 ie 100% per year.
    • maximum draw down 30%
  6. 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
  1. Which time fame(TF) will you trade?
    • I ll max go down to H1 not beyond that.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  1. What is your risk to reward ratio?
    • Equal or greater than 1:2
    • Risk per trade - 2%
  2. When will you stop trading?
    • When we loose 6% in a week - stop trading for current week.
  3. Will you locking profits?
    • I ll utillize the trailing stops which I ll position at previous swing high or lows.
  4. How will you determine your position size?
  • Exit Strategy
  1. Will you exit before you SL is hit?
    • No
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. Which strategy will you trade?
    • Trendline bounces and breaks.
  • Setups and Entries
  1. 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
  1. Have you recorded today trade?
  2. Did you executed trades according to your plan?
  3. Have you completed your trading journal?
  • Discipline
  1. What are the punishments if you break your trading plan?
  2. What questions do you ask after winning a trade?
  3. What questions do you ask after losing a trade?




Thursday, April 25, 2013

H4 Power by 60MM

Inside bar breakout eg; post450
Basic rule post55
Dealing with fear of loss. post Read down few more posts.