Actual trading results
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:54 pm
I would like comments on my results to give me ideas as to what I should be thinking about, what's reasonable, am I on the right track, etc. I am not sure what to post as far as stats, but I'll post what I have and will respond with more if asked and available.
I trade the 10 year Treasury futures contract, trading between 1 and 2 contracts per trade. Started with 1 and have been moving toward 2 mostly. I want to get to 5.
I do not have a "system" nor "indicator" approach to trading, I trade off of price action and "feel", having watched this contract for the past 2 years or so. I think I have enough data points to tell me that I'm doing ok, but that's why I would appreciate thoughtful responses, questions, discussion, etc. If you have your own info that you'd share please do as well.
Here's my P/L graph-
I have 85 trades, W/L ratio of 2.03:1 and 46% winning trades vs losers. Account is up 26%, started in April of this year but really began focused trading (trade #19) in Sept (+8%) and Oct (+21%).
Goal is to pull $750 per day from the market, and have been able to do so a number of days.
Questions
1) What am I missing?
2) Can it really be this easy? I don't make profitable trades everytime, but I think I'm doing ok. I have a good handle on the emotions, make few mistakes and seem to able to be consistent.
Any thoughts appreciated.
I trade the 10 year Treasury futures contract, trading between 1 and 2 contracts per trade. Started with 1 and have been moving toward 2 mostly. I want to get to 5.
I do not have a "system" nor "indicator" approach to trading, I trade off of price action and "feel", having watched this contract for the past 2 years or so. I think I have enough data points to tell me that I'm doing ok, but that's why I would appreciate thoughtful responses, questions, discussion, etc. If you have your own info that you'd share please do as well.
Here's my P/L graph-
I have 85 trades, W/L ratio of 2.03:1 and 46% winning trades vs losers. Account is up 26%, started in April of this year but really began focused trading (trade #19) in Sept (+8%) and Oct (+21%).
Goal is to pull $750 per day from the market, and have been able to do so a number of days.
Questions
1) What am I missing?
2) Can it really be this easy? I don't make profitable trades everytime, but I think I'm doing ok. I have a good handle on the emotions, make few mistakes and seem to able to be consistent.
Any thoughts appreciated.