I’ve been coding way more than trading in general and that’s mostly due to fear and need to be overprepared. At the same time I really enjoy coding, understanding things via analysis etc.,
But this time it was a force of good. I’m finally doing “my platform” that I wanted to do for myself. 3 years ago I said I want to build my own trading platform without knowing how to code. I didn’t want to trade. I wanted to build a platform… I guess that’s why maybe coding has been a priority coz I just really wanted to do it. Finally I’m starting to build actually something that I will be using daily to help me make decisions and later also post trades. As per below this is order for ANF. Who knows if chance of that trade was 33%? Maybe I’m hallucinating and it is completely different in reality? Who knows. More importantly, I’m thinking about these things and calculating in my head and being biased of course, but doing best I can. This is just for posting trades now to database (not connected to Schwab) so later I need to use ThinkOrSwim to actually enter the orders. But oh well. Sooner or later I’ll address that too. I think the crucial thing for me is to make trades daily (good or bad) and learn from them.
Good thing was that I posted few trades into db, pasted screenshots etc., and later I changed my f stop losses… so ARM I lost the lift off because of too tight SL. I want to analyze that and do math on that to somehow get it inside my brain that have greater SLs is just mathematically correct (in most cases; profit target dependent ).
And so… next I have few things on my mind to do/finish before xmas.
- Post 3-5 swing trades through the platform daily
- Implement a window where daily I should comment on the market by writing and I would see that window when posting a trade.
- I want to implement a panel on an order level where I could for example a OHLC chart and see where my SL, PT are and stock price and extra stats (or when the position exited and what happened later). But most importantly, when trade is over I can analyze it and check what I could have done better and tweak other things.
- See stats about stock that I’m normally looking at when making a decision but instead they should be all in one place. Right now I check a table here, some chart, fin stats that are easy to digest quickly (guidance would be great to include).
It’s nice that I’m slowly starting to enjoy it more
