Interesting concept, I think a lot of the problems I have here derive from trading on too long a time frame and from trading overly big size. My time in a winner is much much longer than my time in a loser (88 mins avg versus 32 mins avg as of yesterday) so I don't think running winners is the issue, I need to tighten my downside. My risk that I take on my trades is too much given the relative daily moves (ie the potential upside isn't enough to justify my risk level)
like garachen said to me once, if you think you are right you will loose... trading has little to do with being right or wrong... and he was quite correct on that assessment..
Might I suggest manually trailing your stops to reduce risks? i.e. if the trade moves your way move the stop to the most recent swing. Maybe you're already doing this...
ok so here it is after day 8. Sorry I haven't been putting up screenshots the last 3 days, I have been working from a different PC. I've made a little profit this week, but nothing remarkable. My stats have improved because I got short the crude on Monday and held it nearly 4 hours, which boost the average win/loss time. I did no trades yesterday (20th), but am optimistic for today because 106.60 held (support turned resistance). Overall plan for today would be to sell a bounce.
One trade yesterday, saw a bearish triangle and went with the break, it turned and stopped me out for $920. It then sold off. Beginning to conclude that on future Combines I should trade the mini contract and run less risk. $20 a tick is to heavy given my longer term trading style.
2 trades today. Trade 1 (see attached chart). I bought very low, aiming for a pop at the 104.50 level. Market rallied then came back down. I had trailed my stop to entry and got out at scratch. Trade 2, when it broke 104.50 (eventually), I worked an order to buy the dip (resistance-turned-support) and did so. I exited at the end of the day at 105.07 (20.58 London time) for 1160 profit. Combine balance is now 52,070. Target is 53,500.