Agree! yes. I feel very fortunate and grateful. Keep writing this journal has a huge impact on my learning curve. All these mental problems should be recognized sooner than later.... and thanks to SIM. No matter how hard this is, this is the path I choose. I will do whatever it takes.
Thank you ,Snowman. I especially like the quote from Mr. Elder. Yesterday I wasn't focused enough. I got very emotional. the first long in my mind is still OK. But was lack of experience to reverse the trade when it's failed since it bears sees this as a L/H after it broke the TL and short it aggressively. IMHO, Usually price hugging at EMA with bears an bulls are almost equal strong, this is always the fighting area. its also the confluence of the POC area and magnetic price area. ALways be ready here to join the winners. But got to do it fast. The long at 10am is a mistake that I have eliminated it from my Trading plan. It was technically a 3 pushes down wedge reversal pullback setup.Its at the confluence zone of the S/R and MM down. I took this in a wrong market context. Its a hard sell bear day. And the signal bar of the reversal is very weak. here is what I learned about the similar set up. today we had the 3 pushes micro wedge down at 9:00. Price broke the bear TL and made HH at 8:00. so the 9:15 wedge pullback has a bit better odds to succeed. Its a potential HL. And the 5 min signal bar is very strong. And also there was a bear trap. So today it would be a right market context to take the same setup. I only took the trade on paper since I had the rule from YTD not to take the early pullback. I am glad I learned something.
Hi Matcha, It's cool to stay calm. You did well today for taking only LONG trades after a PB in the first 1.5 hours. I believe at the end of the day, when you look back, you will be at peace with yourself when all your trades follow your planned setup. Win, loss or b/e (like all the Maters said), you know you are training yourself to have the DISCIPLINE to follow your plan and not be distracted by previous trades! Remember, to keep things simple like Master RN said. --po P.S. I made 2 long trades at the same pullback areas similar to your 2 trades. Net +1.0 ES points. Then back to my mental trading exercise for the rest of the day. I am seeing more potential setups now than before.
Matcha, I appreciate the consideration â but letâs keep it real I am simply a dumbass redneck trader If a master of anything â then let it be a master of that Please RN
Large gap open today. Possible a gap-n-go day. To trade a day like this at the open. I have learned that from the past I have to act very fast. I donât like to get in too late then chop myself to death. So today I refer to the 2 min chart. I entered minor pullback after the first 5 min bar was closed. Then I looked at 5 min. itâs really not necessary to enter on 2min. 5 min also have a inside bar pullback setup on bar2. Trade 1: 6:35. long +29tk, Took the trade out when see large topping tail and no FT. +29tk Trade 2. 8:02 Long. Break out Pullback. I took the trade out when I saw topping tail was forming on the entry bar signals a false breakout. B/E Then market started to do its overlapping thing. But it quietly formed HH and HLs.-a nice bull trending day is continuing. Trade 3: 10:35 long. Market has finished the 3 pushes up Wedge after spike at the open. Could be a possible wedge top on 5 min chart. But the wedge is very weak and it could be just a continuation of the move up. Here is why today 15 min saved me from the temptation to take shorts. On 15 min chart, no signs of any topping signal. I entered a 2 leg pullback long/failed L2 + false break out set up. Set my target at +10pts.HOD. But when I see the bars started to form a possible reversal signal and thought about the trap time at 10:30-11:00, I took the trade out. In hindsight, the correct trade management should be moving stops to below 10:55 bull trend bar. If it were triggered, then I am wrong. The LH here will be valid. In this case, this LH did not succeed; instead, it broke to the upside nicely. +2tk. There was also a 2 leg pullback long+a failed BO set up at 8:40. The inside signal bar did not look quite nice to me, so I did not take it. But in hindsight, the low of the bear breakout bar did not even touch the EMA. The low of the pullback reached the 61% of the large breakout bar @7:45. Itâs a good setup in trend day. Trend dayâs signal bars never look quite right. I will need to do more backtesting on this type of ânot so good looking signal bar but valid setupsâ trade. If I have more than 3 reasons to take the trade, I should. PnL: 32pts, 3trades (will only include points from today)
Hi Matcha, Congrats on a job well done! It's great to stay with the trend & most importantly to stick to your plan today! I took a couple of long trades at a PB. Made a couple of ES pts. --po
M: You had asked about the matter of multiple time-frames. I want to show you something. Just use your YM trades today 3/3/11 as an example. Backdrop: today was a big bullish day. Rapid up in the morning and stayed green all day. Not much to do except to long the drops. I have a composite chart in TradeStation: YM 1-minute YM 5-minute YM 10-minute 3 different time-frames overlaid on the same chart. For simplicity, I had minimized the price bars of the 5-min and 10-min portion. I only retained the momentum indicator portion (called "Vol With Direction"... it is a proprietary momentum indicator that I bought). So what you see is the momentum indicator on 1-minute bars, on 5-minute bars and on 10-minute bars. On a day like this: Lean on the bullishness (green) of the mid time-frame (5min) and long time-frame (10min). So what you look for are those "bearish" moments in the short time-frame (1min). The most "bearish" moments. They are the bars in the negative quadrant. Especially the second humps (the second mouse). Momentum Divergence. Lean on the MT and LT bullishness, fade the ST bearishness. That's what it meant by multiple time-frame trading. The vertical lines were opportunity moments. Looks like you had taken some of them. Now what's RISKY to do: are the up spike bars: where all 3 time-frames ST MT LT are all very green. There is a good chance that price will pull back at those points. (Illustrated by 3 yellow rectangles) If you long at those points, you probably are going to frustrate yourself to see prices turn after you have bought them.