1st: Short (16) In chop, so faded a pretty green bar. 17-tick stop, 12-tick target 2nd: Long (8) Price broke out of triangle. Bought on...
I was reading NoDoji's old journal last night. I had forgotten she struggled a bit too when she was learning all of this. I get frustrated when...
Time to try this again. I have a severe overtrading problem which is probably my worst problem that needs fixed. Then there are...
I tried this analysis twice ( a few months apart ). I noticed a few quirks of price action that I hadn't noticed before, so it was useful, but I...
How do you trade the rest of the day from 7:10 until 11:30 Pacific Time? I can see how choppy & range-bound it was now that it's all hindsight,...
Ever since I spoke with you a long time ago & analyzed a bunch of your trades I always thought this was what you were better at than anything...
That's exactly how I feel, so I quit posting my trades in my journal for now. It's just plain embarrassing. I had 89% losers today. 2 wins, 16...
I actually attempted to follow a plan today & made some fake money. I don't know if it's a good plan yet as I just started working on it last...
Ok...............that clears things up in my frazzled brain. Thanks DB & everyone else for all the help !
The setup business kind of confuses me. Everyone talks about mastering & testing setups, but whenever I look at one of NoDoji's or DBPhoenix's...
I don't mind chop if I can make money from it. So.........is the choppiness the reason I have so much trouble with your straight line method?...
Short & sweet. I like it.
I would have absolutely no problem following rules, taking loss after loss after loss, if I knew that over time I would come out ahead. Doesn't...
What I'm thinking a lot of the time is that the market is out to get the other traders. Half the time when I see an obvious setup I think,...
I want to work for myself. I absolutely hate going to a job every day. I feel like it's nothing more than a lesser form of slavery. (not to...
Well at least I know I can still laugh at it all...............as you observed that it's "really sort of pitiful". It's funny in a way, but not...
I just can't figure out this "trading a plan" thing everyone talks about. How do you create a specific plan when everything is so random. Let's...
20 (0.10) Thought the double top would get taken out & run the stops of bears. 19 (0.02) Was going down, so short. Changed my mind, because I...
Since the topic of being chopped up & "death by a thousand cuts" was brought up how would you traders that actually know how to trade handle a day...
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