Works out to an average of 17 trades per day. Do you feel that you are over trading? How many different strategies are you using? Is your...
What does "Generally, graduate progress and improvement will deal with this." mean? How do you propose to do this? What are you planning to...
There you go. Now what are you going to do about it?
Why are you cancelling orders that get profitable. How do you go about being careful? Why should thinking in ticks differ from thinking in...
Don't focus on the money. Your goal should be to take all the set-ups, to follow your plan, to trade to trade well as they say.
Maybe you have to get uncomfortable. You say systems you have come up with are not profitable. Can you tell us why?
Thats a good start. What are you looking for from a mentor?
With a win rate of 50% and a 2 to 1 reward to risk you should do just fine. You might also look at letting your winners run past the 2 X risk.
All I can suggest is to Sim Trade your strategy for 100 trades and see what the results are. Good luck.
how much time is involved to use the system? Do you have to spend all day watching the market? Trading around news is usually whippy.
Have you done any back testing?
Treat trading like a business. Write a detailed business plan that you could take to the bank and borrow the money to run your business....
Can you shine a little light on what you did to allow one stock to take 12 grand from you?
How much are you risking on each trade? Is it a certain percentage of your trading account? Is it part of your trading plan? Do you have a trading...
Why did you lose? Did you follow your trading plan? Do you have a trading plan?
That pretty well sums it up. Now the question is: What are YOU going to do about it? Don't screw around with a "I'll try this or that" or...
Well what is it you would like us to do? How do you want us to help?
Are you telling us that you don't want any help. That this journal is to just be a record of your trades and frustration with trading. For...
Mark I have to agree with all you have said. Teaching trading would be better in person. This assumes that the mentors style of trading fits...
Mark: I have read both posts. The first deals mainly with how to verify that the mentor is profitable and how to compensate him. In the...
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