Day 34 of Live Algo Day Trading JournalDay 34: What a bad day it has turned out to be. Market gyrations has given me losses for all the trades taken. The algo was correct, the logic captured the direction of the market, however the intraday pullback of the market was beyond its normal limits (or as per the set calculated limits over a certain time) and kept hitting SL everytime. Took four trades, all wrong.
Setback: today's market has made me thinking if I should incoporate something else in the logic to figure out the major direction and take trades only in that direction? This will keep me occupied for the weekend.
Discretionary
Day 33 of Live Algo Day Trading JournalDay 33: Good day but did not turn out good for me today. Algo gave me entry in the morning, turned out profitable, but subsequent two entries took away all the profit. Overall a negative with minor loss.
Progress: Stuck to the algo even when was sure that we are near the support and should have taken profit. So, no manual trading today.
Learning/ to ponder: When market takes away your earnings, should you solely rely on algo ? I am thinking of changing it to stop it once a desired profit target has been achieved and take no more trades......
What are your thoughts on this ? Let it run or stop and get out ?