Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Scottrade to TD Ameritrade transition

   The last month has been stressful trying to learn a completely new platform (Thinkorswim) now that the merger of Scottrade with TD Ameritrade is complete.  I traded this H Pattern that I learned from Trader Jamie.  My psychology and management was very good, I was happy with how I traded this.  3.3R booked.


Monday, February 5, 2018

Big down day (flash crash?)

Well, that was interesting--reminiscent of 2008-9.  I traded a Gap Fill Reversal.  I got stopped out with a retrace when the Dow had a technial bounce off the first test of 25000 and might have been a little aggressive tightening my stop, but little did I know we would have a rare epic down day.  It was a 2.88R trade, so I can't kick myself that it could have been a 13R trade.