changing things around today. Every trade will have a stop around half as big as the target. (so if my stop looks like it needs to be 20ticks, I'll put a profit target in at around +35 - +40 ticks and walk away)
Yeah. Journal wasn't attracting the people I wanted to attract, and it was a hassle uploading charts and statements all the time. Keep a journal on an excel sheet for my eyes only at the moment, instead.
Pink, keep journaling. (I guess that is a verb). But change the way you do it, stop posting your p&l, instead post your trades, why did you enter when and where you entered, why did you exit, what do you think was right and what do you think was wrong, that will build you as a trader. If you want to trade PA, then learn that first ( is extra hard for dumb people like me) if you want to trade patterns, or MAs or stochastics or lunar phases, learn that as well, learn the theory, formulate your own hypotesis and then test them, get your stats and see if your hypotesis have a high probability of success. If they do, forward test them, see how you perform in the right edge of the screen, compare your stats, that will lead you to a theoretical trading plan. Then all you have to do is follow that in real time with real money, that is a different game, but unless you formulate a plan an trade accordingly you will never know, because you will not know if your trading sucks because of your method or because of your mind. Just my 2 cents. And by the way thanks for posting in my thread.