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Archived July 2004 Key Trades
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July 12th Monday 2004
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The move into the new house and all the stuff involved afterwards is very demanding...doesn't allow much time for trading.
Therefore, the goal for the month was to complete the month with a minimum of 75 points and to have at least one trade that captured at least 75% of a big trend.
This particular trade had nothing interesting in the form of any customized Japanese Candlestick patterns...although there was a low probability traditional Tweezer Top.
Yet, there was a strong bearish price divergence signal...strong enough for a trade position.
Short Entry @ 1111.75
Lots of supply and not enough demand
With that said...there was a minor WRB support level @ 1111.00 that had me a little worried.
In fact, ES bounced of that 1111.00 and traded up to 1113.25 where it ran out of steam along with signaling another bearish price divergence.
That 2nd bearish price divergence pushed price down hard...hard enough to form a WRB on the 3min chart interval.
Profit target 1 was reached (not easily)...covering some contracts @ 1111.00
However, I should have covered @ 1110.50 or 1111.00 while the interval was a WRB below the support level of the prior WRB.
Profit target 2 was reached easily...covering some more contracts @ 1108.75
Profit target 3 was reached...covering a contract @ 1107.00
Profit target 4 was reached but I failed to cover my remainders (got greedy) @ 1106.25 and ended up dumping them when ES attempted to fill in that Hidden GAP...covered the remainders @ 1109.75
Simply, via poor trade management on those remainders...I left (failed to exploit) 3.50 ES points on each contract on the table along with staying in the trade too long (more stress) after knowing I didn't execute the trading plan properly.
Trade Signal Source: Trading Manual
ES closed the trading day @ 1113.50
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