Blowingup2012, What's the significance of your post of a daily chart?
How did you guys do today? I kinda wish I would have kept trading. Great volatility.
Recap for 4-19-12 +37 ticks <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NYOeUWsVdPY" frameborder="0"...
....and..... I'm done for the day with that trade. Biggest win of the year. Video to follow.
I just noticed the video is really hard to see price bars! Sorry about that. If someone wants, I'll redo the video. If you maxamize the screen...
I thought I would share something more today. Here's a look at my trading stats spreadsheet I made. Monitoring performance is crucial for...
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Done for the day. Just finished the video, will post when it uploads.
Considering fading this move above the top of the range at 804ish Edit: 10:08 What a beaut that one was.
Yes, stops are widened. As of now I'm just at breakeven for the day, 5 trades in. Yes, I'm looking at such small moves, most always there is...
I think it's trivial, but I'll try to start using I just to make the picky picky people here happy. I'm sharing everything I have with y'all, and...
A quick edit for 4-17-12: Actually made +16 ticks today, rather than the +9.5 I thought before. Feels like finding a $5 in my jacket pocket...
For those of you trading index futures short-term, I would love to know what your win% is on average (what it fluctuates between over any x number...
Yes, I was.
+9.5 ticks today, could have been much better. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ejwUPsFpiIs" frameborder="0"...
Here's my MAE (maximum adverse excursion) chart. Does anyone see anything in this they could comment on? I'm very new to the concept.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, 1-2 ticks would be way too tight for me, I'm going to place the stops 1-2 ticks OUTSIDE the entry signal...
toucan, There is no objective methodology for varying contracts or adding to trades. Purely discretionary, and based on how I'm "feeling"...
My focus for tomorrow will be on a disciplined stop-loss placement. Each and every stop-loss will be placed a tick or two outside the entry signal...
Thanks for the feedback Zr1Trader, I may be successful trading with mental stops, but who knows, maybe I would be much more successful if I...
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