August 2013 Trades

August 2013 trade summary statistics and comments

Improved statistics month over month...Fewer trades again this month which might be expected for the Dog Days of Summer...

Friday --------------------------------------------

8/30/2013 ... 1/2 ... +46 or +$202

Caught a nice runner today...but gave a bit back at the EOD




 

Thursday ---------------------------------------------

8/29/2013 ... 2/1 ... +22 or +$162

Good trade day although the markets closed fairly flat.



Thought support was going to hold...




 

Wednesday ---------------------------------------------

8/28/2013 ... 3/1 ... +14 or +$111

Took some early trades, before the major markets opened:





Spinner Harami's on the overnight FUTS before the major markets opened
suggested an upward bias for the day after yesterday's shellacking.

And we got the bounce:

Tuesday ---------------------------------------------

8/27/2013 ... 2/1 ... +12 or +$109

Just down ...media says it's war jitters

Monday ---------------------------------------------

8/26/2013 ... 0/2 ... -7 or   -$62

 Lots of good signals but they failed or I missed them...

Friday ---------------------------------------------
8/23/2013 ... No trades today ...

Thursday ---------------------------------------------

08/22/2013 ... 2/0 ...+28 or  +$128

Narrow range day, saw few good signals... 



Nice trend for the session though not much to trade during major market hours.

Wednesday ---------------------------------------------

08/21/2013 ... 1/1 ... +1 or  +$8

......Pay attention to current P/A or missed opportunities will pass you by...
I wasn't really with it today.

Tuesday ---------------------------------------------

8/20/2013 ... 0/0 ... No trades today.

Monday ---------------------------------------------

08/19/2013 ... 3/1 ... +13 or +$75

Salvaged the day late in the afternoon...a couple of "teachable" charts too...



You have got to stay focused to win the day!





Almost gave some back here but cancelled the order...

Friday ---------------------------------------------

08/16/2013 ... no trades today - divergences were sparse and without follow-thru.

Thursday ---------------------------------------------

08/15/2013 ... 5/0 ... +35 or +275 

Good signals were firing off all day long......missed quite a few trades (not complaining). 

 

Wednesday ---------------------------------------------

08/14/2013 ... No trades taken. Few signals - chop 

Tuesday ---------------------------------------------

08/13/2013 ... 2/0 ... +24 or +$108

Couple trades in the morning... 

Long outside bars on the 8 hour bar charts 

Monday ---------------------------------------------

08/12/2013 ... no trades today ... 

I was only running on 7 cylinders. Choppy action, signals were not being thrown off 

Friday ---------------------------------------------

08/09/2013 ... 4/1 ... +21 or  +$139

Good day, good for the bottom line and statistics... 

The trade entries are on top with the results beneath...

2nd trade set 

3rd trade...(a single chart)

4th set

A shame I missed this one - you can't catch them all
and there is always another trade.

Trade entry and results are left to right on this one...

Mid-day look at the markets

Mid-afternoon look at the DOW and Depth charts

Late-day look

Thursday ---------------------------------------------

08/08/2013 ... 4/0 ... +28 

All green trades today... +$211 

Charts below... 

Typical afternoon storm in the rainy season down here... 

Wednesday ---------------------------------------------

08/07/2013 ... 0/5 ... -12 or - $110

Caught NO winners today... ook mostly Slingshot entries and saw few 'good' divergence opportunities. The 1st two chart sets explain Slingshot entry rationalizations... 

Here's the trading/TICK charts for the RLM and the ES 

Here's a look at the YM and the ES 5 minute charts (relatively long term examples) showing what a Sling can do... 

And today's trades - 

Tuesday ---------------------------------------------

08/06/2013...3/0...+19

Indicator divergences presented good signals in the ES, YM and the RLM before the major markets opened today. 

Sometimes the markets move in tandem and you can capitalize on them. 

Monday ---------------------------------------------

08/05/2013 ... 2/3 ... +1 

+$52 for the day. New layout for trading the ES, YM and/or RLM... picture included below trade charts. 

 

Friday ---------------------------------------------

08/02/2013 ... 0/0 ... no trades today

Thursday ---------------------------------------------

08/01/2013 ... 0/0 ... no trades today ... 

Did do a lot of paper trading but saw only single divergence 

plays - 9 would have been stopped and only one could have been a runner 

(I like to review the good ones to imprint them firmly in my mind's eye...) 

And the FUTs look like they'll all make their measured moves, at least... 

And the DOW JONES, ADV-DEC and watchlists - looked like this all day...