Gonna be posting trades and (context leading up to trades) for feedback. I took three trades today Context image The market is volatile & hard to read but I think that it put in a hard fought higher low since smart money entered the picture. ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

I got proverbially punched in the mouth yesterday lol. Even having only executed two trades, and one being a fat finger, I can objectively say I was overwhelmed and not in tune w/ the market at all. Over the last 24 hours, I did a bit of wallowing ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

Jotted down some thoughts to get some structure going into my backtesting this week. I used David Allen's 'Getting Things Done' project framework as a rough outline Define Purpose/Principles The main purpose of my backtesting 30 trades is to get ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

I reflected on my last post and I've decided to work through what I can during this shortened holiday week and then start backtesting next Monday instead of waiting for December to arrive. A part of me is working to ground my expectations so that I ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

I occasionally watch live markets with an accountability trading partner, but lately, I've been mostly reviewing my flashcards and creating trading 'drills' to shore up some areas of weakness. It's not the first time that I've taken a step back from ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

One month later and I'm a lot more structured (which led to more confidence). I ask myself a series of questions when analyzing a chart, and one key question that I've added is so popular yet I never made a conscious effort to do it. The question is ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

Hindsight's 20/20 but it looks like it ran out of steam attempting to break through a prior resistance level on the 4h: image OTOH, you can see a shortening of thrust on the 1h: image

vsa with Malcolm

A little flustered at the moment. There are so many areas that I want to improve upon that there's a bottleneck of things to do and it feels a bit overwhelming. Today I'm going to write down every decision point I make when trading and what factors ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

No trading today, but I did reconfigure my mouse shortcuts after inadvertently wiping my hard drive a few weeks back. I plan on getting 1-2 trading sessions in before I travel for a funeral mid-week. I don't have the muscle-memory currently to trade ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

Slowly getting back on the horse. No trading again this week, but I restarted review of my trading flashcards and took some notes today: Which area was most relevant when it comes to future improvement? How can I focus on probabilities and ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

Recovering from Covid and finding it hard to concentrate/feel productive. It might be that temporary fog during recovery, but it doesn't help that I continued my draw-down when backtesting last week. I think I've identified the issue (rushing ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

Gamifying my backtesting a bit. So far, I've only unlocked the ability to trade the EU on the Hourly: Backtest EU on the hourly and make 15R Reward Unlocked: Trade EU on the Hourly IRL (Starting 9/5) Backtest S&P 500 on the hourly and make 10R ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

Came across a really great article via Bulletproof Musician. The outward presenting theme of the blog is "how to improve as a musician" but at its core, it's rife with references about Deliberate Practice. If you replace every music reference with a ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

One random rule I will implement is that I will only trade instruments that I've backtested with at least 10R in profit... Kinda gamification because the more I practice, the more opportunities I can 'unlock' in real life. Also, while I'm just ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

image image image image Completed a series of 30 trades backtesting and I'm happy w/ my results. I do want to work on improving my winning % for my ego, but it's hard to complain too much when I'm up 20R after 31 trades. The plan is to start ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

Stuck w/ VSA? One underutilized option is to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to assist. Here's a ChatGPT response that I shared w/ in a separate VSA chat to answer a question: I can provide you with guidance on identifying No ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

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Composite Operator's footprints [VSA]

Anyone wanna share their views on the markets. I feel like Nasdaq is leading the S&P nowadays w/ tech (specifically semiconductors) leading the charge: image

vsa with Malcolm

Two steps forward and one step back is the name of the game w/ trading. For the second time in a month, I transitioned away from trading drills and towards backtesting and was met w/ some harsh realities. The best analogy that I can think of is that ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA

I believe I have the beginnings of a solid strategy and I officially started backtesting last week but I'm going to pump the brakes a lil this upcoming week to revisit fundamentals yet again lol. I have gotten much better at determining who is in ...

Simulating (to) Success with VSA