DAX you highlight the major challenge to day tradeing. Emotion. Controlling emotion is the key. Those who can are the successful 5% who make a living at it. Those who can't will make huge compounded mistakes. I traded professionally for years using discression and found that i would have long streaks of small success followed by short term periods or large loss whihc reduced my overall profitability. 10 steps up then 1 large jump of 8 steps down. i put most of my faith these days into a mechanical systematic approach. the best traders int he world are robots. i find it too hard to do this on a discretinary basis but a compter has no feelings. this may be your answer Become a robot.