New Tradestation Platform is in Full Swing

New Platform New Problems? I’m not sure.

I’m not blaming Tradestation just yet but it is one of the suspects. As of yesterday, I’ve switched over to Tradestation full time. I have both a Cash account and a ROTH account that I’m using. Not to go into great detail but yesterday I had a couple of application crashes. I spoke to support and was told it may be corrupted. So, I reinstalled the application and rebuilt my workspace. Today, no crashes. However, there were 5-7 small events that caused the platform to lag-freeze. It would sit still for about 8 seconds before coming back with a thrust of data. I’m starting to think my router is the cause. TDB. Day trading is hard enough.

Let me get into the trading. Although I spoke about the platform issues, the trades taken today were great. In fact, this was my biggest day since I started the trading course.

Trades Taken

TSLA was the first trade of the day and while I took some minor losses on others, I did make a nice trade later in the afternoon. I had an opening red to green trade and an inflection point trade that worked in my favor. TSLA was a bit choppy today so that didn’t help.

TSLA Profit and Loss = $64.57

I heard about APT in the room and took this trade since I liked the chart. I was dealing with how to issues on the new platform so for safety I entered the trade and got out full lots after it made a nice pop. I actually don’t think I could’ve gotten much more.

APT Profit and Loss = $25.38

I was watching XRF setup on a nice red to green trade early this morning. It was a nice break. I actually got out way too early on this one. It ran another .30 soon after I got out. It ended up dropping the rest of the day but I got my piece. This was a $3.00 stock.

XRF Profit and Loss = $41.00

Probably the best stock of the day was BYND. This thing had legs throughout the day. Although I got jumped on some entries I was able to catch a few more. The end of the day trade put me past my best day total.

BYND Profit and Loss = $116.60

TGTX had a lot of potential on the opening range breakout. I was watching it closely and it did make me miss the best trade of the day. However, I caught a nice winner and it did end up going another point without me. One day I will hold longer.

TGTX Profit and Loss = $54.09

I traded a few other stocks today but they aren’t worth mentioning. Small gains or minimal losses. In fact, my losses totaled $50.30, but they mainly happened on the stocks above.

Trades Missed

I was watching CARS setup but it was really like watching paint dry and I saw the price heading where I wanted it to go on TSLA. Soon after I switched CARS ran two points in my favor without looking back. BIG MISS.

It was a great trading day. Although the markets ended up being down there were plenty of trades to be had. As you read above I traded a few stocks several times. This is because it was setting up this way today. I probably could have made several more trades today but I was keeping it tight with the new platform and some of the issues I’ve been having. I look forward to trading tomorrow.

Total Profit and Loss = $320.00