great point. I am struggling with hard stop loss and mental stop loss. I told myself many times I must use it. but my old me still objects to it....
I used mental stop with a small size. the problem with hard stop in day trading is can not filter out those little dancing move, often you may...
account decreased to $5987.77 change : ($55.5) not patient enough, shorted crude a little bit too early, missed NQ 1985.5 short because of no...
account advanced to $6043.27 Amount change: $214.2 %change: 3.6% trades: 5 shorted CPBY in the pre-market, good timing, after the thrust,...
account advanced to $5819.87 Amount change: $307.2 %change: 5.6% trades: 9 today's trading is ruined by KERX. bought Kerx at the...
actually in a range-bound market, top and bottom can be easily pindowned. in a trending market, you still need to pindown pullback bottom/top or...
good point. beat myself, not the market!
good suggestions. well accepted. that is why I decide to post my trades after the market closes, I need peer presence pressure to improve my...
analysis of friday's employment data, looks to me it is positive and encouraging. check out next week's economic news schedule and marked on my...
if you do not bet, you have no chance to win. if you bet, you may lose your chip. if you lose your chip, you may have no chance to gain if...
trade 500 shares with $60-70 daily loss limit, almost no one can do that! trade FAS with 100 shares size with $60~70 daily loss limit is realistic.
account value moves to $5512.67 long natural gas after the report, gained 8 ticks on QG, should not use limit order to take profit, quickly...
march's performance (most gains are from my former account before 22k withdrawing). after the withdrawing, roughly gained $1k
I am a baby trader. I am still refining my trading methodology, so far my entry is good, but my holding is poor (too short), my ultimate objective...
so far my account value is at $5136.57. I will set this number as my new starting point as April begins tomorrow.
I do not know what you want. if you just trade intra-day, former session's low/high is good enough, even half hour ago data is good enough, since...
that is diff-month's spread. May CL is a little different with June CL, and son on. I always trade the current month, do not pay much attention to...
wrong, 52-week high for CL is 83.92, I traded that day, I shorted it at 83.2, and cut loss at 83.33 then it hit 83.92 in the evening just before...
0.3 point gain on crude CL/QM, shorted it after the report (second rebound) 1 tick gain on QG natural gas, shorted it at premarket at 4.060 (my...
if you can not determine what will happen, then do not do it. it is a gambling. I do believe the market's unpredictable characteristic (some...
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