Update: Today was better then last week. I took one trade, but I certainly saw more setups just wasnt confident. I will be studying. But I have found some problems in my trading and one is confidence. I need to put in the screen time, back testing, studying previous days charts and monitor performance to get some confidence. Overall, its been a fun, learning week.
personalities vary. Dest for example would never have that kind of issue (i.e., "will this trade work?" lol) because of his personality type. (read: LION) I don't know EOC but I can tell from his posts he probably is a bit closer to me on that in the sense that it's easy to lose sight of your skill set when things start going badly. (as he wrote this morning). However, being able to get out of a hole and end the day positively is a sign of a very mature trader. you have to be fluid enough, yet firm enough with yourself. Fluidity in being able to say "am I still capable of executing right even with a few hits / $X in the hole?" Firm in the sense that you are being real with yourself. The real confidence you have in yourself is revealed with extreme prejudice by the market. if you don't have that at the moment of every trade, don't take the trade. (fluid / firm)
I keep working on making a system do breakeven plus one tick like 90% of the time and allow me to average down, much harder than many would think. Works fine in chop, but then having totally different system for trend. It is the time in between where losses occur.
really frustrating day for me with not having my NQ charts working properly. CQG made some change in symbols over the weekend and I cannot get NQ nor ES to run right with my indicators. so, it was a day on RTY. 22 contracts, so * $4.1 = $90.2 yielding $559.19 on the day. way under my goal, but, it's OK.
Today was a little choppy and I don't think I traded some of it well so might shut it down here and be thankful I got out with a profit. Predict we might be range bound into the close and dont want to trade that. $+240.30.
Update +$180. 1 contract. I have been studying the charts daily looking for my quantified edge and confidence. And I still trade daily because I like the real emotions and daily trading excersise of real time. And tracking the performance. Study study and practice practice. Win or lose, I trade.
AMP sent out a memo about that yesterday, did you receive it? " To support Futures contracts that span greater than a decade, CQG is changing from a 1-digit year code to a 2-digit year code in CQG. Systems that support only single digit years will become unusable with the new format. To avoid disruption for your customers, please make all necessary changes to your systems. This symbol format change has been communicated to all trading platforms in advance, so all platforms connected to CQG should have already made the needed updates for a seamless transition. From our current understanding, this change will affect the trading platforms using CQG newest WebAPI (which is most platforms offer at AMP). If the platform is using an old CQG API or FIX connection, then this change will not require any updates by you today. If you are using AMP's Free Version of MultiCharts, please make sure you install the current version: Download AMPMC If you are using MetaTrader 5, please install current version: Download MT5 > Sierra Chart is *not* affected by this since it already uses two digit year codes > *injaTrader is not using the newest CQG WebAPI. They say they are not affected, but we are getting reports from our customers > fix is to reset all instruments > Control Center > Tools > Options > Data tab > Reset Instruments. This fixes both versions 7 or 8. You will need to update your current Symbols in your platform to the new 2-digit year format. You need to update the "Market Watch - Quote Boards", "DOM" and your "Charts". Example CME - Crude Oil symbol containing 2 digits: Here is link to Full CQG - Exchange Symbols List >> "