It's all made up...
Good luck sorting anything out.
Events From Week 35-37
Hopped all around locations in Korea.
Worked on marketable products.
Market environment makes zero sense.
How we get new ATHs during a major global conflict is beyond my understanding.
Prop Firm $50K day trading account:
Total Days Traded: 83
Total Balance: $59,825.1 (+19.65%)
Week 35-37 Commentary:
Had 2 days with big losses. Sucks, but happens with systems trading. Just power through.
As I approach 90 active trading days, there have been somewhere under 200 eligible trading days.
S&P futures in the time since I started are up only 13.67%, so I’m safely outperforming the market with my conservative positioning despite some big losing days.
What I (we) Built / Shipped / Posted
ZEN-WEB!!!! It’s been a long time coming, but within the next few weeks, I’ll have some of my products out in the wild. Beta testers are current on the platforms helping me identify the sticky points.
The first to drop is a watchlist creator for tradingview. It focuses on universe selection, filtering, screening, and workflow optimization I follow. It makes picking the assets you should be looking at for evaluating trade setups just a few clicks.
The next is a simple dashboard. Most of my “trading time” is spend waiting for the right conditions to trade. This dashboard is a collection of charts/gauges of those conditions, reduced down essential to a traffic light condition, green (friendly environment, evaluate buying actions), yellow (wait), red (risky environment, consider protecting). I’ll load in the specific presets I use for the different asset classes. Additionally, for those with time and curiosity, a sandbox so you can plug in all conditions you want to experiment with the combos and price alignment. You could see what worked and would have been good timing moment in the past so you can be alerted when/if that combo aligns again.
What I Learned
"We live on/in ‘Whose line is it anyway?’..."
‘… the TV show where everything's made up and the points don't matter.’ I can’t even begin to make narrative sense of what’s going on with the market. That being said, as a systems trader it’s definitely better for me than discretionary or narrative based traders. I don’t really have to understand it to know what my risk is. I have a technical analysis post in the wings about some of the BIG PICTURE market conditions that I’ll be cross posting here and Zen Trades. For teaser… long term patterns would suggest we may be entering a long overall flat to down market.
What's Going On Next Week
Website polish (hopefully one launch)
Technical market analysis report.
🤪 Off-Topic Corner
My Current Location: Gyeongju, South Korea
In my lack of posting we have moved from multiple locations, Busan to Ulsan to Miryang to Gyeongju. Here’s a shot from the old fortress walls in Miryang.
Thanks for following my "finance in public" journey! If you have any questions or comments, drop them below! I'd love to hear from you.