Thursday, February 4, 2021
Opening losses, recovered
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Recovering from minus
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Playing with data
Still playing with my trading data to see if I can notice any patterns, make any improvements. Tonight's experiments with 2021 to date data:
The histogram shows more clearly that I have high number of trades in the approximately +20% zone. In the scattergram, the points are overlapping such that it's impossible to tell the quantity.
However, knowing that there is a density around +20%, what both graphs bring to light is I have a lot of losing trades! And the losers are bigger than I think, even if I am overall profitable.
It seems like my losers are in bigger trades, more $2000 trades have losers than winners. Part of that, I think, is that I tend to scale out of winners, which is shown by smaller$ but bigger% trades.
YTD, I am 72% winning days, average daily gain 1.23%.
On first glance, it seems like I should make it a focus to reduce the size (if not the quantity) of my losers. How to do this? I like my stop technique, so I think I need better entries. Hm.. to ponder.
Big wins for MY 50th BIRTHDAY!
Monday, February 1, 2021
Hard earned up day. New round number!
New week. Nervous again
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