Talk about CONFIDENCE builder.... today was shaping up to be JUST like tuesday.. I got down to -$77 dollars at one point..... and I was getting...
Whats sad is I keep shorting.... and its the little pullbacks that keep taking me out of my position right before it drops down and makes a new...
Shades of tuesday all over again... now down -$29 on the day....... its like its all happening over again
picking up on the afternoon session now, grinding away up 133.... the thing is i'm WAY over trading.... sure i'm making my broker happy ;) The...
Just made another trade up $115 now... looking pretty good... the last trade I executed exactly the way I wanted, was only a 10 pt gain.. but I...
up to +$63 now for the day..... Still trading too much and not letting my winners ride long enough.... I can do this!
Already made 2 trades and am up $21 dollars...... I am overtrading again, and NOT entering on my correct signals.. but still early and now that I...
calling it a day, was up 211 a second ago, and entered a short at 11177, and it sat there a while and I started to doubt the position so I got out...
Now up +$194 on the day. I have recouped half of yesterdays losses now.... still got a ways to go... but this is the highest I have been up in a...
jimmy, Thanks for the advice... I basically stuck true to my rule about not trading through lunch and started trading around 12;30 central...
Took another little "scalp play" basically, up $97 now... all trades thus far have had perfectly good reasons... my exits on the other hand, sitll...
boro, I do have a few thigns to tell me when to get out... but mostly I exited that position soley on the basis that it was about 10 pts into the...
Made a trade, and currently up $46... but boy did I get out wayyyy too early..... Had I held I woudl have cut yesterdays losses in half...
4re, To be honest I WISH I could day trade a stock instead.. actually what I would like to do is daytrade the DIA, instead of YM...... but the...
volente, A lot of my entries lately have been all because I was either bored, thought the market moved too far too fast, thought a new trend...
thanks for all the comments, I deffinetly have a LOT of work to do.... I am leaning very heavily towards using my bot starting tomorrow to trade...
My mechanical method does..... its really a VERY well drawn out strategy that has been VERY thoroughly tested.... all these trades i'm making,...
Scratch that 255 loss, now its a 400 loss..... I went nuts after the market closed............ I have had what I always get after a while, a HUGE...
boro, Currently only trading 1 contract at a time. But you are correct, I am cutting my winners short and letting my loosers ride..... one of...
loss 255 today....... Only averaging 100 a day, and loosing 255 in a day is NOT good........ RULE #1 needs to be DO NOT EVER take entries just...
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