Mr Matimus

Day Trader/Degenerate Gambler. A personal trading journal to document my thoughts and hold myself accountable.

[Mr Matimus @MrMatimus]

@zukoboy72 When you lose money or miss a trade and feel like you have to instantly make it back.

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I hate this market. Getting wicked out to the tick & feeling uncomfortable holding till TP because I feel I could be rugged or squeezed out of my position at any second. Actually feels like gambling. Kind of want to quit. $SPY $QQQ

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@zukoboy72 Hopefully that doesn't mean revenge trading and addiction.

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Find it a bit telling that the market was tanking pre-market and then miraculously found a lot of buyers just before the Bank of England announcement. Suspicious, not surprising. $SPY $QQQ

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Decided not to trade today as the gap up gave me bad juju. Avoided a lot of nastiness. Wouldn't have held through the big moves & would likely have been chopped up. They'll probably rocket it at close, but I can't be arsed. $SPY $QQQ

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You've gotta respect the grift. Wall street using futures to set traps yet again. Guess it's easier to grab liquidity while volume is low AH. $SPY $QQQ

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My biggest triggers are missing a fill. Multiple stop outs in a row. Guessing the direction, but being too fearful to pull the trigger. Selling early.

The consequences are moving stops (never ends well), sizing up & taking profits too early.

Need to work on emotions $SPY $QQQ

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My biggest problem has always been closing a trade too early. To fix this I've increased my stop & decreased my TP. I will not touch the trade after this. If I lose 2 trades in a row I have a 30 minutes timeout to avoid tilt. $SPY $QQQ

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I guess retail were shorting $AAPL.

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This market is so frustrating. The moves are immense so I feel like I should be killing it, but the nastiness makes it hard to hold. I feel that I have a good idea on what the market wants to do.. but the journey is so erratic that it makes it hard to trade. $SPY $QQQ

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Be brave. Take the stop. Don't take profit early. Don't be a rebel, follow the trend. $SPY $QQQ.

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Experiencing performance anxiety after a losing streak. Made a lot of good imaginary trades today. $SPY $QQQ

[Mr Matimus @MrMatimus]

Experimenting with Nasdaq scalping. As long as I avoid the opening hour, close & news events it's ok to trade with a tight stop. Nasty algos will still get me, but a couple of big moves is all you need. Ready for the challenge. Difficult, but doable. $SPY $QQQ

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@PrincessofCryp2 I think we're gonna dump, tight SL as it could squeeze again

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Smells like Wyckoff distribution. Let's see if this ages like milk. $SPY $QQQ

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@PrincessofCryp2 Was looking at the Nas and was wrong :D

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Testing out scalping the NQ. Going to have to accept that I'll be stopped out a lot & learn to control my tilt. Tend to get back into a trade after getting kicked out due to anger. Working on walking away.

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Almost blew up. Had a consistency profitable strategy. Broke my rules one day and had a big loss. Something just switched in my brain & I've been trading on tilt ever since. Risk management has gone down the toilet and I've lost self control. Trading is hard. $SPY $QQQ

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This losing streak is so damn frustrating. The ideas have been right each time, but the timings have been way off. I suppose if you're early you're still wrong.

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Spread/Pairs Trading Futures - Micro ES vs NQ

$SPY $QQQ

Day 15

-$235.49

Started the day strong with 3 really clean trades. Foolishly bought the NQ expecting a bounce. It didn't bounce till after I closed my position. Need to lose my ego, CUT early and stop freezing.