Pensacola is looooong fricken' way away from me .... way down South. But they are a'comin to Key West end March so maybe I catch that show. Seen many years back on Fort Lauderdale Beach Air & Sea Show. The best.
My posts are for entertainment AND TO PROVOKE THINKING. DO NOT TRADE THE WAY I TRADE. NO ONE. NO ONE. DON'T DO IT! I do have a little fun in my journal with NQ and ES not just micros. As far as my followers. I hope I have none. There may be a few who read my thread but do not follow me nor the way I scalp. I am telling you to clear it up I am not mentoring. I am charging zero dollars. I am selling nothing. I am showing how I like to scalp. No one has to read my thread. My journal. If I am mentoring by expressing ideas, then we ALL are mentoring including yourself. I am not a mentor but I suppose it to be OK to express ideas on ET and toss them around. AGAIN DO NOT trade like I do. NO one. But if I am wrong showing in a journal how I like to trade then the moderators have my blessings to completely delete the journal.. and ban me forever. I thought a forum was for the express purpose of expressing ideas and constructive criticism. I have no intention of backing up any ideas by showing proof financially or account statements...etc. It seems like in the end many want to see the money as proof. Ideas are one thing. Money is another. One can be played with and tested for fun without the other.
I can see Laissez Faire that you don't like scalping nor discussions on scalping. But others may like scalping ideas? Just no one follow my scalping ideas. Please don't follow them. Do not do them. Do not execute them unless you are just doing it for fun on a SIM. Forgive me for irritating you. I can see that I may have pressed the wrong button. Good luck to you in your trading for 2025. I mean that too!
Goodnight you get around. I thought at one time you were in Boca Raton. Then Gulf breeze near Pensacola. It must be Gulfport???
No I was saying Pensacola is a long way from down here - Gulfstream (not Gulf Breeze or Gulfport) is in Palm Beach County. I drove past "Pepsicola" many years ago (that was enough) in an RV lol wink, wink on way back from Kingsville, Texas of all places. For past 34 years South Florida has and will continue to be my home.
For me it is two-fold fear. First, I don't want to see an open profit turn into a loss. This is what has been preventing me from holding for those larger moves. And second, I hate finishing a day red. I have an incredible streak of green days going right now. But here is what's nutz - I've had single trades in my personal account where I was able to hold for a large move that resulted in profits larger than my entire month of green days in my prop accounts. And that has happened twice in the last month. Two trades in one month doubled my entire month of prop profits. Trades that lasted just an hour or two that have bettered an entire month of scalps. But still I struggle to leave the "comfort" of scalping for the promised land of big swing milk and honey. For most of last year I was a 1 minute chart trader. Over the last two months I've been more on the 5 minute chart. On weekends, when I have time to review my trades and the charts that generated my choices of trades, I am finding that the hour and 15 minute provide solid information that I am often missing on the 1 and 5. I would have thought it would be the other way around, and that the smaller time frame would give me a peak "inside" the larger. Reminds of the saying "missing the forest for the trees." I'm so focused on the supposed details of the 1 and 5 minute that I miss something larger. These errors I feel have been minimized by my reliance on making sure previous day's highs and lows are marked on my intraday charts. Good subject for a thread, @Laissez Faire