Like other traders out there, I’m glad September is over. It seems like everyone is looking forward to October thinking things will get better – even moreso than the yearning we heard for September back in August.

Here’s my trading journal calendar from September:

Things were going pretty well in the first part of the month and then things just stagnated. The last three days I traded this month I gave a good bit of gains back. Here’s my cumulative R for the month:

My expectancy and win rate were down from August, but I’m still positive for this month so I feel very fortunate about that. I’ve learned so much about trading over the last two months. I’m taking two main points away from September: one is that I need to work on having the discipline to stay out of the market on non-trending days. The other point has to do with timeframes (15 versus 30 minute charts) that I’ll devote a post to later.

Important Note: I’ll be changing brokers on Monday, so I won’t be trading. This, of course, means that the market will trend like no other that day – watch for it. (There were two days I was unable to trade in August – one was this day which would’ve been a great day to dummy trade.)

Related posts:

1. November Trading Results
2. Wild Start for September
3. February (and January) Trading Results
4. Trading Journal Calendar View Added
5. The “Late to the Trading Desk” Exercise