went flat at 75.64. didn't break many of my rules this session, pretty satisfied with my discipline today. You trade from the west coast, NoDoji? Wow it must be nice to end a trading day before noon!
Stop moved to .79 (don't trust last 10-15 minutes) Stop hit 104 tics in all (45 + 34 + 25 or 34 from average price) And I had to take it in sim, indeed
Going to stop trading CL, having issues with how my chart updates in real time for this future, so not going to do it anymore.
What data feed and charting package are you using? I am nowadays using ts2ki with IB data feed, and all is excellent (well, my trading could be better, but that's a different matter )
said to myself two weeks ago, I can trade without the forum. glad I do did. go through you guys' recent blotters, discovered some guys are doing really better or got the point of trading. impoved my trading skill a lot recently, I can always honor my stop loss,like this morning pre-market, I went long at 75.79, thought it will break though overnight high75.95,stopped out at 75.6; I can flip without blinking, I shorted it at the overnight low at 75.45, out at 75.08 in the bounce. then bought it at 75.5 in the opening, and rode it to 76.26 in the drop from76.48, I am patient. shorted it at 75.89 after it dropped from new high of 76.48, particularly patient enough to hold to morning low 75.33, out at 75.43 in the bounce. very proud of myself, I can extract the middle part of a move, while not the top part or the bottom part, I can ignore the price and just see the move patterns. of course, I still have long ways to go. then stopped my trading, still have Friday symdrome: afraid of messing up late afternoon, and ruin my weekend mood. I can not increase size, trade smaller lot compared to my account size. I still sometimes think my trades in money value, thought if my trade made me money, I thought it is a good trade. still hate to see mystop loss get hit, a little bit emotional about the loss since I think about "money", in reality, money is just a byproduct. when I was in paper trading, my money concept is not there, I can trade in the zone, seems I cantake as much as I want,but to my production account, I become cautious, sometimes secondguess, .... I will work on that part very hard in next several weeks. if any one can point out some methods to me,let me forget about the money concept in my trading, that will be terrific!