Another disastrous day for me. Perhaps I should keep my day job. The problem is that I don't have a day job. :-(
You had a very nice equity curve for days, then crumbled. Did you change what was working, or was your methodology flawed?
Nothing changed. If anything I am following my rules more closely and then something happens and I break all the rules. This is going on for years with different instruments. My best run was about 3 months of steady advance only to destroy it. I don't know what to do. Whenever I am sure that I GOT IT, I suffer a massive loss that makes me doubt the system.
I recovered but kept a loser for far too long. Did not add to it. Just kept it. I also became religious in the process .
Nice exchange. Having a trading plan, developed through one's own observations of market behavior and recorded in a journal, will go a long way toward helping one develop a "trader's mindset."