I'm not even sure how to respond to this. The only reason I showed my trades today with a very good explanation is because you asked. Seems like a pretty rude reply on your end. My impression of you is that you're always trying to find reason for why trading doesn't work. So why even bother? I just legged in long again on this drop with small size. Do I need to inform the board? LOL. Pretty sure I was very upfront about hitting my daily loss limit on Friday and misreading the day, too, so not quite sure what your agenda is. For one, it's certainly not true that I'm only showing the good stuff.
Haven't checked the news yet, but I figure it has to be Middle East headlines. I wrote pre-market how that was the only thing that could stop this rally today. Maybe that was enough to put some hegdes on. Let's see if this can spike back up to 5400 again. It can happen... Agreed. It's a bit more unpredictable now. Still an Up Day which most likely closes green, IMHO. As always, small initial size in case I'm dead wrong.
This is my point. Its not a misread. Its just that the market did something different. You seem to only say your trading is going well if you're making money, and you back this up with a chart when the trade is working. But if you also think trading is going well when you stop out, which is fine, you should also have no trouble showing this. But you never show a chart with all the losses. And you of course don't have to. I'm just saying that you're pigeon holing yourself because the onus is always to show positive results, and that's not trading. Trading is taking the trades, taking the losses, adjusting positions, etc. When you write that you took a loss, its clear you feel bad about this, but why? You think you did something wrong, but all you're ever doing is just buying dips or selling rallies, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps you're scared to show all the stabs to take at getting into a trade because you feel its revenge trading, or overtrading, but if this is what it takes, I'm not sure why it has to be hidden.
Didn't really like the selloff at the open, only to take it back up. They're definitely playing games with y'all, so tread carefully. I still think there's a good chance we hit 5430 sometime this week. But we shall see.