TGIS

Thank God It's September!  (TGIS)

August was a brutal month and I am glad it's finally over.

The choppy volatile trading was difficult and frustrating to trade. I kept getting whipsawed.
I was getting stopped out of good trades, and taking big losses on the bad trades. Also, my Crude losses did a lot of damage to my account, but that was my own fault for not following my own trading and money management rules.

I should make a note to myself to stay out of the markets in August. Actually, better yet, I should come up with a trading rule to know when to side-step the markets. I think one the key skills to master in trading is knowing when not to trade. It seems paradoxical, but it's true. I have heard this mentioned by a few other well known traders too. So I need to work on this.

For now, I'll enter September with a fresh perspective and leave all my previous biases behind.