Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Review … Time to review my thoughts on the first challenge. General Thoughts:  The challenge has been a great learning experience for me. Not just the trading experience and posting,  but also the response from the people reading the posts. I am disappointed that I lost continuity due to health and computer issues.  I believe that my results would be better if I had not had those breaks. I did not achieve my goal of making $200 per day average on 1 contract. During the last 7 trading days I averaged only $115.71 net per day. Remember th ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – Last Day … Last Day so time to review last day, review the challenge and decide where to from here … Actions I took since the last post:  Traded only 2 trades in the Leeloo Evaluation Account Todays Trading I traded pre US market open and stopped as the market was too fast to enter. Two trades in NQ and all were profitable. Again, I am not posting the list of potential trades today as the list is getting large and my trust factor in the ability of entering the trades due to the speed of the market is questionable. Leeloo Evaluation ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 2 Days to go … 2 Days to go … Actions I took since the last post:  Listened to a great interview with Denis Shull – Performance Trading Coach Continued to review the Simplicity Trade setup Traded only 3 trades in the Leeloo Evaluation Account Podcast – Denis Shull The character Wendy Rhoades, in the show Billions was based on the Performance Trading Coach, Denis Shull.  Denise also wrote the book Market Mind Games. If you are interested in listening to the interview click here:   http://www.alphamind.buzzsprout.com/28 ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 3 Days to go … 3 Days to go and another fast market day Actions I took since the last post:  Continued to review the Simplicity Trade setup Traded only 1 trades in the Leeloo Evaluation Account Final Days of Challenge It is now getting close to the time for a review of the first challenge and decide what to do next! Over the weekend I will review the Apex Investing experience and make a decision as to what next … I would love some ideas … so please leave me a comment. My initial options are: Continue trading with Apex for another m ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 4 Days to go … 4 Days to go and another fast market day Actions I took since the last post:  Watch a number of new videos from Apex Continued to review the Simplicity Trade setup Traded only 1 trade in the Leeloo Evaluation Account Apex Video’s Apex are now focusing more on NT8, so they released a number of new videos on NT8. They will continue to support NT7.  There are a number of benefits to change to NT8. The increase in speed is a major benefit along with a number of charting benefits. Todays Trading The charts were fast a ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 5 Days to go … 5 Days to go and another wild market day Actions I took since the last post:  Continued to review the Simplicity Trade setup Traded 3 trades in the Leeloo Evaluation Account Sim traded 2 Simplicity trades. Todays Trading The charts were crazy again today so my plan was to take 3 trades in the Leeloo Account and then do some testing in Sim. The trade setups were coming but were finished before I could enter. I did manage to take 3 trades. Again, I am not posting the list of potential trades today as the list is getting ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 6 Days to go … Friday and only 6 days to go. Actions I took since the last post:  Traded 3 trades in the Leeloo Evaluation Account Reviewed a number of videos on the Simplicity Chart Sim traded Simplicity to see how it would work. Todays Trading The charts were crazy again today so my plan was to take 3 trades in the Leeloo Account and then do some testing in Sim. I had watched a few of the Simplicity videos that Darrell had made and I wanted to see how practical it was to trade with the Simplicity methodology. Again, I am not posti ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 7 Days to go … Thursday and only 7 days to go. Actions I took since the last post:  Continued reviewing the setups with a focus on when Not to enter Reviewed my trading plan Traded premarket Sim and 1 trade in the Leeloo account. Trading Plan: Is your Trading Plan a working document? Having a Trading Plan is important but most trading courses don’t teach how to make a trading plan into a working document. I regularly review and update my trading plan. Some people consider just having your rules for the setups to be a trading plan. I ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 8 Days to go … Wednesday and only 8 days to go. Actions I took since the last post:  Reviewed the new trade setups and the results they appear to be getting. Reviewed the market to identify trades I thought were valid trades on ES and NQ Sim traded  Some of the new setups look really good: I wrote yesterday that the frequency of trades is important in your evaluations. You need a sufficient number of valid trades to allow you to recover from any loses. The AR1 setup is providing plenty of valid setups to allow you to recover fr ..read more

Apex Sniper Trading Bootcamp – Challenge Countdown – 9 Days to go … Today is Tuesday and only 9 days to go …  Actions I took since the last post:  Computer issues so no trading until today Monday 31st August. Reviewed the market to identify trades I thought were valid trades on ES and NQ Sim traded a setup that I have been backtesting which has good results Review of where I am currently at: As I have said previously, the markets have changed since I started this challenge. And they will continue to change.  My initial process to the challenge is one of: Study the course an ..read more