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Two days this week deciding what I think might happen and setting a time to close out in advance: +£60
One day this week doing my best to follow your ever increasing list of things to follow, but in particular looking at levels, and ensuring my individual losses are all small with the hope of having some wins to override them: £-280
 
Fine, you cracked it. 5% reliably every day, or 30% in a week, is a first hurdle.
It's not my list, it's just the basics. Which you aren't using or you wouldn't have lost that £93. I didn't look at any others.
Different layout - New broker?

Nat gas was dropping from around midday agreeing with Bloomberg so took it down for about 3%. Commodities are leveraged 10:1 so that's 30 ish. NG can reverse suddenly so I pulled out a bit early, it went on down.
I used a trailing stop for most of it. I don't like them much generally.
The week was 1.8 x 2.2 x 1.3 then in 3 days, better than expected.
Things are getting heavy to manage forme now and there's loads I don't know that I don't know, so I'm looking for an IFA.
Have prepared for a major market pullback. Might be a mistake, but most everything's on the MM at 0.02%/day.

If you can't use a set of rules, use what you can of the standard indicators for reasons NOT to enter. Going on News and setting a trailing stop is a reasonable way to go if you have an entry. Not far off what I'm doing. There isn't always anything much, so if indicator use isn't possible for someone they shouldn't trade. They will miss a lot, becuse things like range trading are high probablility wins. That's what Catena does quite often. If his opening trade goes the wrong way, he waits for a range trade, or an obvious one off a level. They tend to be safer later in the day. Then he puts the farm on it. Hences, sometimes he's jumping up and down on a 40cent move. He doesn't give all his sizes, but we know he can use a few million bucks at a time if he wants to.

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Tiny percentages on a big number are producing for me now. Even at Money Market rates. Rates will drop but there's little point building the lump much more. I don't spend much, quite old and no family. If I build the tax free stuff some more that'll do.
It was suggested that I do lessons. I did set someone off and they're doing ok, but this thread shows that many may never get there.
 
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No new layout - of numbers.

Partly as before today. But TTV was on about $CHWY so I took that short at start of day (it had started down in the premarket) for an hour which was 9%, then /split with Mara, which started and stopped then kept going. .Total of 16% or so , but x 5 again, around 80%. Coulda woulda shoulda done better.

Spent half the morning spitting feathers at Standard Life where wife has a bit of pension. Money market fund, pro tem, Check 5%? No, 4.3% eh? It's the best hey do. Fees near 1%. Sod that I'll move it. No wonder they do well.
We use HSBC a lot. Big bank, right, should be good, right? Nope. Awful.
First Direct where I first started putting cash from T212, (piictured here way back) I have a number of accounts because of the way they worked. I sez, see the account with 260 in it, maturing about now? No, she said. I said I'd wait. I said it would be 270 odd now. No, there isn't one, she said.
I was fuming. Told her to get her boss to call me when they'd found it. Took 10 minutes, very contrite. I told the bloke I was having a heart attack, got him worried. "Sorry it was 272.22, it looked different". Moron.

Expecting to be using Short ETFs soon - free left overnight, some are -3x. Expecting spy to drop.
 
Oh I see. The problem is that IG doesn't present the numbers in a form which shows the opening and closing times and prices in the same row and I always come up with a different way of preparing it. Anyway, better today - lower expectations helped.

TimeMarketNameResultSizeLevel
16:19​
12308​
16:24​
NVIDIA Corp (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7VDMV6AJ
-1​
1​
12286.6​
-£21.40​
15:48​
20900​
16:09​
Tesla Motors Inc (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7VAE45AD
0.5​
-0.5​
20940.3​
-£20.15​
15:58​
18225​
16:05​
Alphabet Inc - A (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7VB8PWAR
-1​
1​
18215.9​
-£9.10​
15:27​
18268​
15:57​
Alphabet Inc - A (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7U79WGAN
0.5​
-0.5​
18226​
£21.00​
15:28​
18271​
15:57​
Alphabet Inc - A (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7U72WBAL
0.5​
-0.5​
18223.5​
£23.75​
15:38​
12224​
15:42​
NVIDIA Corp (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7U9A2EAP
1​
-1​
12207.7​
£16.30​
15:16​
20816​
15:39​
Tesla Motors Inc (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7U5EJFAZ
-0.5​
0.5​
20990.5​
£87.25​
15:05​
12113​
15:16​
NVIDIA Corp (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7U23RQBB
1​
-1​
12016.3​
£96.70​
14:50​
20476​
15:01​
Tesla Motors Inc (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7UZYB6BC
0.5​
-0.5​
20783.9​
-£153.95​
14:56​
11983​
14:56​
NVIDIA Corp (All Sessions)Position/s closed: 7U2H2CAG
1​
-1​
12030.4​
-£47.40​
-£7.00​
 
Sitting in Tesla rising slowly, waiting for Uber to bounce off a bottom properly.

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Actually tesla dropped a bit just as I posted this. 3:37 was it?. Had some in that and some in CHWY. Tsla would have been better since the off, I missed the news. In and out of TSLA CHWY and a bit of AMD for the rest of the day. Messy but came out at just about 7% total.
Tomorrow's a half day. I'll watch ttv early and watch the premarket. I expect a sell-off some time, could be any time. Bloomberg people suggest second week of July. Highs of day today.
 
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15:51​
02/07/2024 16:02​
Uber Technologies Inc (All Sessions)
-1​
6928​
6958.4​
-£30.40​
15:38​
02/07/2024 15:46​
Coinbase Global Inc (All Sessions)
-0.5​
22919​
22995.8​
-£38.40​
14:51​
02/07/2024 15:21​
Apple Inc (All Sessions)
0.5​
21707​
21819​
£56.00​
15:14​
02/07/2024 15:16​
Marathon Digital Holdings Inc (All Sessions)
4​
2240.4​
2223.7​
-£66.80​
15:09​
02/07/2024 15:10​
PayPal Holdings Inc (All Sessions)
1​
5910​
5883.2​
-£26.80​
15:00​
02/07/2024 15:04​
Spot Gold
15​
2332.53​
2330.13​
-£36.00​
Total
-£142.40​
 
That -£153
Looks like you went short at the bottom of a dip and held it 10 minutes to near the next high. Beats me.
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Gotta get something to eat now but I will check the worst of your latest, - if you want.
 
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That -£153
Looks like you went short at the bottom of a dip and held it 10 minutes to near the next high. Beats me.
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Gotta get something to eat now but I will check the worst of your latest, - if you want.
20610 was a major resistance level back in February. The price went up through this level on good volume so I waited to see what would happen there. It fell back down and the volume declined. I waited for confirmation. It showed no signs of reversing back up so I went short. Closed out once it was clear that the resistance level was not in fact holding.
If you have time to look at some more that will be appreciated, thanks.
 
Mastered one thing today: having my profitable trade earn more than I lose on any loss-making ones.

16:04​
03/07/2024 16:16
NVIDIA Corp (All Sessions)
-1
12477
12581
-£104.00
16:04
03/07/2024 16:06
NVIDIA Corp (All Sessions)
-1
12472
12515
-£43.00
15:33
03/07/2024 15:59
Polestar Automotive Holding UK Ltd
10
97.99
91.03
-£69.60
15:20
03/07/2024 15:54
Dell Technologies Inc
0.5
14347
14302.6
-£22.20
14:52
03/07/2024 15:50
Tesla Motors Inc (All Sessions)
0.5
23892
24523
£315.50
15:14
03/07/2024 15:36
Hut 8 Mining Corp (US)
4
1595.4
1587.6
-£31.20
03/07/2024 15:22
15:04
Polestar Automotive Holding UK Ltd
10
93.54
95.55
£20.10
15:00
03/07/2024 15:06
Dell Technologies Inc
0.5
14302
14225.8
-£38.10
14:54
03/07/2024 15:00
NVIDIA Corp (All Sessions)
1
12235
12199.1
-£35.90
14:42
03/07/2024 14:44
Uber Technologies Inc (All Sessions)
-2
7108
7148.9
-£81.80
Total
-£90.20
 
I tried a couple but it seemed clear that with the Pelosi factor, Tesla was the one to be in. WOrth looking out for that in future. Apparently there's a Pelosi ETF!.

Messy so I started like you may have, "trying things". Never a good idea,
 
I tried a couple but it seemed clear that with the Pelosi factor, Tesla was the one to be in. WOrth looking out for that in future. Apparently there's a Pelosi ETF!.

Messy so I started like you may have, "trying things". Never a good idea,
Not sure I understand. Surely Pelosi (Mr.) sold shares so that might have been expected to send the price down.

I think it's probably true about "trying things" generally in life. It might seem like you are doing just that but often you are getting into much more than you realise.
 
I got two the wrong way round - the Pelosi thing was buying Nvidia - the other oen which did well today. Tesla was on sales less bad than they exp[ected (!). They both did about as well as each other.

WHen I "Tried" dabbling on the SM I lost . Very tempting to "just see if this works". Then learned the odds were low, so only opened if the moving averages etc predicted well. LIghtbulb moment when it mostly worked.. It's still tempting to go with momentum, which can work but often doesn't.
Amazing how after 23 or other large number of green candles, you join and it reverses immediately.
A problem of "just trying" relevant here is addiction of course.



Just looked atthe successful trade - good one: You took the break of resistance on high volume and there's no indicator or previous level telling you where to get out. The only thing which might have beena hint is the Pivots which Cherif likes. Could be happenstance thugh - I don't look at them routinely though I might have then in, feint, if I had better charting to trade with.
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Looking for a "what could I have done better" there is to reuse the levels. Spooky how all the purple lines get visited more than once:


They could have been used for trades later than the first one.
The useful bit is where the line isn't - ie there's no previous level. "Fly zones", where the price might wiggle a bit but it'll usually keep moving up or down, until it gets to another level.
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There are Voume Profile tools for it but it's easier to put them in as you go..

Actually, lookng closer there IS a clue where it was going to stop - there are two peaks too close together for a continuation. I might have got out a bit earlier than you but only by a couple of minutes. One of those where it just "looks wrong".
 
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