My January

January was pretty decent. I'm making progress towards covering my variables. I have a meeting w/ Jane from the Quant team next week to look over my trading performance to date w/ an emphasis on the month of January and how I've been trading EEM. There has been three big down days I had b/c I traded EEM too much and kept getting stoppped out. I realize now that it's probably b/c I have my S&P Futures chart changed to only 60 3-minute bars so when it makes a slight move it looks a lot more significant on my chart and I trade it when in reality it's barely made a 5 point move or so. Other than that, if the market is really moving I've been spot on w/ EEM, especially like on that Fed decision day and the week before w/ the emergency rate cut.

I'm getting off to a decent start in February, although Friday felt extremely slooooowww. I changed some of my order defaults to 1,000 now even though Lawrence didn't officially up my share size yet. I have some voodoo keys set up that would help me put orders out to the specialist, ARCA and INET when I'm scalping, and I've also changed the color preference on my tape so I can tell easier where the print was routed. I should've got long on the ACV imblance at the end when it flipped from sell to buy... I got hit on another trade for 1,000 shares and I was only able to get out of 400 before the close. I'm just going to try to not think about it as much as I can over the weekend.

Let's get even better about my losses this month. I had a few days where I hit my loss limit for the day. Actually, let's make that a goal. I'm not going to hit my loss limit at all for the month of February. I want to trade about 25,000 shares to 30,000 shares a day. This is it, man... learning period is over. It's go time!