John's Journal

[jayvee]

Hi all, I taking your advise and starting a journal. It is a great way to get advice from other traders.
I also going to steal Grant.s template and PDF format for attaching trades, hope it is not copyrighted.
I was going to start trading next year but I got excited and traded last night. 1 winner and one looser, silly me should have been 2 winners as on the first trade I moved my stop liss to tight. Still 0.8% profit is okay with me.

John

[immy]

Hi Jayvee.

Congratulations on starting your own journal. A journal is the easiest fastest most effective way to learn to trade. i'd suggest taking pictures and posting them here instead of the pdf format. That way one can easily see the picture and reply. Grant does that because he used to do his filing like so before he started his journal here. IMHO>

Happy Trading

cheers

[immy]

Great Trades btw.... keep em coming! well done

[jayvee]

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First trade this year for me, was going to leave it a week but I need the practice

[Grant]

Hi John

just be aware of the size of the aims box at the time of the set up. I have that aims at 15 pips, so it was too many for me.

also there were a lot of AIMS levels to the left that were just below your entry...

i hope i don't sound like a school master.... lol

Grant

ps, i have just traded a set up 1 at 1147 UK time (entry at 1.3023). managed 13 pips (1%)... hope you took this one as well...

[msk185]

Hi John / Grant
I rejected the setup you took John as the AIMS box was too big, but interested in your comment Grant re the next entry which I also rejected as AIMS box was 13 pips (038-025) and the overnight low was at 022 on my chart so curious as to what you saw differently about the second entry over the first one.

Thanks

Mike

[Grant]

Hi Mike,

Under 15 pips is ok for aims size,

my low was 23.8 so PO at 23 was under..

cheers

Grant

[msk185]

Thanks Grant, looks like we had a different level from our respective brokers but at least my thinking was sound

Mike

[jayvee]

Hi Grant. I'll be the student and you can be the master that will be great for me

Thanks John

[jayvee]

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First trade tonight, don't know why I thought the alligator was asleep so I went for a setup1. lesson learnt. At +5 moved SL to -4.
Closed on green line but price moved up another 6 pips before it was executedo =4.5 for this one. Would have been +1.5 if close order was executed faster.

John.