Tuesday, March 8, 2011

From 8 to 155 in four days

Hey there! Was not posting for a while. Probably was in shame for my reckless actions in the markets and my inability to stay away from inplay... So I finished February about -300 EU loss. Half of it is from tennis "STUPID ALL IN decisions". In that month I had some nice consistent weeks too, but somehow I screwed up. Lets put it in example, starting bank 50, after 10 days I am to 200, in next two days I blow my bank completely. Then I make deposit, take few days off, comeback and story repeats. So what is going on here?

"I NEED TO MAKE MONEY", this need was so bad that after every natural bigger loss or trading error I turned on RECOVERY mode, and with this mindset its impossible to see markets objectively without emotional discomfort. So after loosing everything, I needed to sell my photo camera to pay for stupid small debts that I had, believe me how much it hurts... but I need to take responsibility for my actions. So I took week off from trading, and even was thinking about quiting trading. But in that week made some good assumption that I don't need  TO MAKE MONEY, rather I need to see markets objectively, without any fear or greed. Thinking in this way I said to myself that it is a good opportunity to make some good new habits with very small stakes, without any need to make any money, just plain desire to play with markets, and to use what I already know about them, without any pressure to be good at this. And guess what? This approach worked nicely. So now in four days I am up 132 eu. Daily  scenario looks like this: 8 -> 20 -> 60 -> 80 ->155. It proves to me that I am not newbie and I know something about markets, and I can be consistent winner without reckless trading errors.

So what next ? After first withdrawal what I made yesterday I gonna order this book: "The Psychology of Trading: Tools and Techniques for Minding the Markets". I believe it will be nice reading in evenings. And who hates to read I can say one thing: "trading is your profession and your business, and if this material can have any slightly chance to improve your results you are stupid to not make attempt for your laziness to read" :) My main goal remains the same, to learn how to be consistent.


I am still working every morning with yesterday's charts. Actually these charts works okey only for 1.5 - 3 odds, for other odds it's not so good. So I put some nice charts here. SL stands for stop loss, XXX for exit, and ENTRY for entry. Actually one of the most important thing in the markets for me is to identify what kind it is: "swing market, scalp market or bouncy bouncy market", because you need to use different trading styles.


And some not so beautiful, got to take some losses here.



Gonna put more in near future :) 
Have an a nice and profitable day!

6 comments:

  1. Hi, I highly recomend building your own bot. It is a very good way to have consistent results without the your trades being affected by your emotions (that is probably the biggest problem of all). If you have a clear stradegy (even if it is based on 50+ indicators) you can turn it into a bot with faster reaction times than you and just watch it do the work for you. I think it is also a very good way of testing new strategies as the bot does only what it is programmed to and never modifies the strategy.

    ps: I really enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work and good luck with your trading

    best regards

    Andrej

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  2. Hi Andrej, thank you for your comment. I am happy that you like my blog.

    Was thinking about your suggestion to make bot, and I believe it's a good thing to try. It would be interesting to see how it works. There is some problems, first of all I don't know how to start creating it, where is the beginning? What programming language I should use? And I am trading with QuantSports-Ninja charting setup, so I need to teach that bot to look in these indicators ... How it can be done?

    Maybe you have some experience in betfair boting? Actually I need some help. Probably it's a good idea to make some post in QuantSports forum.

    Thanks again Andrej

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  3. Hi, the easyest way (and probably the cheapest) is using gruss betting assistant http://www.gruss-software.co.uk/

    you ca log prices into excel (every refresh is logged into your excel sheet) and you can work with the data using either excel formulas (if it is a bot simple enough) or using VBA. I see that you are studiing computer science so this should not be a problem for you (even if you do not have VBA experience, it is simple and fast to learn).

    As you said, you would need to program all the indicators from ninja trader. If you wish I can help you with the begining.

    Another way is connecting dirextly to betfair API (you can use any programing language you wish) http://bdp.betfair.com/

    the only problem here is that the free API is limeted and the personal API (I think it is called this way) is a bit too expensive if you are trading with smaller ammounts.

    therefor I reccomend gruss software. They offer 30 days trial and that is long time enough to see if it suits you or not.

    Best regards

    Andrej

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  4. Hi Andrej,
    Thank you for your answer. I will be very happy for any help :) Yes, I know some programing languages, I believe I can do that, I just need some help with a beginning. Probably it's gonna be best to use VBA, how I understand when using it there is no need Gruss software? Can we share some contacts for future conversations? Please write me at zuikiscool@gmail.com . At this moment I want to have at least one profitable month, gonna do manual trading, in the mean time I am thinking about future bot's rules-strategies that we should create. Thank you!

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  5. Nice one!
    Greetings from neighbors - Latvia!
    Thank you so much for sharing graphs - this gonna help me A LOT.
    Probably I can write you an email - maybe we could speak on skype some other day. I believe we have something in common.
    Keep up a good result!

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  6. Hey Vadim,
    I am happy that you found useful my charts. Write me at zuikiscool@gmail.com
    I think that all traders have something in common :) Same psyche, same desire to became successful, same problems ...

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