Posts Of Interest - Part 1: The Way I Trade

Since I use Blogger to blog, it makes it very difficult to categorize and sort my posts. This blog is coming up to 200 posts and so I have gone through all my posts and sorted them out into categories that may be of interest to readers.

Over the next four weekends, I will be posting "Posts Of Interest", which is simply a collection of posts that I thought would be helpful for readers to see what mistakes I have made (and continue to make), and to get a better idea of how I do things (without having to click through the archives).

Part 1 is entitled "The Way I Trade".
Part 2 is entitled "Trading Principles".
Part 3 is entitled "Self Assessment".
Part 4 is entitled "The NYSE".

This weekend in "The Way I Trade", I have collected several posts that give you an idea of what I look for in a trade and some of the things I avoid when I trade. Since I have yet to post up my methodologies and my trading strategies, this post is probably the best way to find out how I trade.

I have listed these posts with the oldest post first and the newest post last. And so, here is "The Way I Trade":

The Dreaded "One Print Break" - posted on Feb 23, 2006

• This post describes one of the things I avoid trading when I see it
  
• in my experience, when I do see a "One Print Break", the probability of the trade working out for me is much lower than regular level breaks
  

The "Ball Buster" - posted on Apr 26, 2006

• In this post, I describe a trade that ruins your entire day - usually occurring near the end of the day
• In the past, a "Ball Buster" caused me to lose concentration and/or result in revenge trading or trading on pure emotions
  

A Psychological Barrier Broken - My First $1000 Day - posted on May 12, 2006

• A post that describes the slight tweaks to my trading I did to achieve one of my goals I had set up early in my trading career
• This trading day was interesting because in the post on the previous day, I was complaining about how long it was taking me to have a $1000+ day
  

Anticipate More, React Less - posted on May 25, 2006

• This post has several musings on what I should be doing with my trading and how I should approach it in order to be more successful
• I made a note that in order to make more profits, I had to anticipate more and react less - the more I react, the less I'll be able to make
  

Big Fat Juicy Level - posted on Jun 19, 2006

• This post describes the type of trades I always look for
• I also mention the great opportunity I missed because I saw a "Big Fat Juicy Level", but exited my position too soon - the trade resulted in a $460 profit, but could have resulted in a $2000 profit
  

A Complete And Utter Embarrassment - posted on Jun 29, 2006

• A review of a terrible trading day I had back in June and one in which I discovered something about one of the stocks I frequently trade
• Quite often, a light bulb goes off in my head whenever I have a really bad trading day - mostly because I have to review my bad days in this blog
  

Looks Like It's "That Time Of The Month" Again - posted on Jul 19, 2006

• A post that explores a pattern I have in my trading that seemed to re-occur every month
  

The Trend, The Bounce, And The Momentum - posted on Jul 20, 2006

• This post reviews some of the changes I made to my trading strategy when things didn't seem to be working out too well
  

Trying To Go From Scalper To Trader Overnight - posted on Aug 9, 2006

• Another bad trading day that really forced me to review what was going wrong - in this post, I tried to identify my problems and laid out what I was going to do about it
  

Scrambling For The Exits - posted on Sept 11, 2006

• A post that describes how I deal with getting out of a really bad trade very quickly
• Though I had a profitable day, I could have had a lot more had I not resorted to "Scrambling For The Exits"