Matcha, Awesome day! I've been taking a break and doing some back testing and staring at charts for the past week to get my set-ups back to...
not to be a pain in the ass or anything, but if you choose to do that, can you scale down the image before you load it so there isnt as much side...
There's a link somewhere in my journal from someone else who posted but here's what I do: 1.) add attachment 2.) hit submit (don't hit...
That makes sense...back to the hypothetical and adjusting the trade... Now, lets say that support around 1169ish held and a bounce up off that...
Ya that makes sense. I guess what makes this trade tough to analyze is change in the trade as it goes on. It didn't make a nice orderly 3 wave...
Hey Guys, so one thing that Im having a tough time dealing with when going back and looking at various stuff is the continuation/extension of a...
Hey Guys, Ya my plan is to use ninjatrader for sim. ToS definitely sux big time in terms of being realistic. I think Im already getting...
Sorry no update yesterday, I was only around for the first and last hour or so of the trading day, got 1 trade in for a gain of 1.5pts. Nothing...
Ya I need to go back and do some more reviewing and backtesting. To be perfectly honest, I haven't been that strict with my set-ups and haven't...
Focus and bigsnack, You guys are definitely right...I am going away from my plans and thinking about too much stuff and trying to get...
Focus, (I like your handle btw :) ) I really like your idea of "mentally trading" I may switch over to that instead of the sim in the next...
Ya good call on "one of those days" Makes me feel better that Im not the only one that struggled. On a side note, I've always wondered how that...
Thanks I think that is good advice. Right now, I feel the need to practice practice practice. I didn't even really think of "not trading" being...
Uggg, what a crappy finish to the day...here are my last 2 trades.. Trade 4: 10:57- Long 1142.25 Target 1145.75 Stop 1040.75 11:04- Move...
Ya that does make sense...the whole how we got there was my question this morning with that run up off the low...I did have in the back of my head...
haha so far not good... :) Here are my trades so far. Trade 1: 7:21- short 1137.00 Stop 1139.25 Target 1133.50 7:27- move stop to...
Nod, like usual, you give great advice and great lessons. On trade 3, I realized why I was mad at myself for the trade, I got in on a downbar....
On trade 4, does it matter that it had tested that area a bunch of times before, ya the market was in an uptrend, but it also had turned fairly...
Rough day today...just a lot of mistakes...nothing huge, but a lot of small stuff is what got me. Gonna go thru trade by trade in detail here to...
I remember reading your post in Matcha's journal about that...total bummer. I understand that mistakes and correcting them are on going...
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