My target is usually more than this, however my style is to "take what you can" and I abandon the target way more that achieve it. My stop is the same way, it's large but I get out way before it gets hit all but catastrophe cases. This is an equity curve from the first month and a half after developing my trading style, lots of base hits:
I am using automation to enter/exit in some cases where I am not fast enough to get the price I want for a certain set-up. Most are manual though.
only if we can have a 3rd bubble , we had tech, we had real estate, and we have the king has no clothes,that line is 1475/6 appx
Thanks for taking the time to post your eq curve and explaining a bit more about your trading style. Your equity curve is beyond what I could have expected with this style of 1-2-3 ticks. Thanks for posting that. So, you made roughly 7k over 1.5 months, that is 7000/50= 140 points over say 35 trading days. So, per trading day, you made 140/35 = 4 points. If you did this while trading 1contract, this is fantastic performance. I am really surprised to see someone achieve such a performance in a non-automated fashion trading ES with such small profits. From your graph, you have almost a 90% hitrate.