Thanks PPC! Lotta good points in here, especially in your "Basically..." paragraph which also got a couple good chuckles outta me. Only one...
This thread has taken a strange meta turn, but whatever. If sharing general tips and wisdom on TA, on setups, on profit taking strategies etc...
Amen to all of that. I knew full well most of these trolls aren't successful traders, but it hadn't occurred to me some of the moronic replies...
Sage advice. After a full year now of developing my trading plan, I had what felt like my real breakthrough month in July. Now August has been...
Oh, I don't take any of this personally. I just put people on 'ignore' who have nothing concrete to offer. Sure, I enjoy discussing ideas, but I'm...
Thanks! That makes alotta sense. Course if the themes I'm bringing up are so old-hat to them, why don't they just not bother responding? There's...
Since you're the only one who even tried to get a constructive dialogue going, and you also seem to have been here the longest, I'll direct my...
I'm really setting new ignore button records with this thread! Seriously, why is this place filled with so many Yogi Berra style contrarians and...
Good grief, the fondness for platitudes in this place knows no limits. That's exactly what I'm trying to do and asking about with this thread. I...
So preferring not to scale-in/scale-out of trades = trying to be right more than trying to make money? That's just silly.
Non sequitur. I'm trading to make money, which requires trading a system that suits my strengths and weaknesses, last I checked.
Thanks look forward to seeing any examples you wouldn't mind sharing. I'll post some chart examples too.
I do like this advice in principle, but I've never taken to situational sizing. I find it very messy and hard to track, so all my trades are at...
All of this makes sense, thanks fellas! I guess I'm striving for something in-between all out scalping and daytrading. I average 3 trades per day...
Getting back in at smaller size is an interesting suggestion too. I think you're right that it's ultimately gotta suit me. My discretionary exits...
Is that the hamster wheel of bad discretionary decisions?!
I hear ya there, but by the time I'm sure what shouldn't have happened happened, as you nicely put it, I've usually given back enough already that...
That's really clear and to the point, thanks! I feel like my question is now fully answered.
Like the phrase downward stutter, I'm stealing that! I hadn't thought about it in conjunction with sizing/scaling before, that's interesting. My...
Daytrading question I'm really stuck on related to profit-taking, and the perennial catch-22 of "letting runners run" without giving back too much...
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