I planned to strictly sim trade CL today with no distractions and announced that I'd have no live trades today. Several of the CL guys were calling live trades and I was following their trades carefully, learning a lot of good stuff and then put on a couple of my own sim trades utilizing a scaling-out strategy. I will say that once I was done with CL, I checked out the late day stock action and AAPL was a VERY enticing long @ 218.55 when it found late day support there right near a previous support level and I knew that a ton of day trading shorts were trapped and the longs were all happy as clams and had no reason to sell. It was a fantastic end-of-day short covering rally setup, BUT I hesitated and lost the opportunity. In case you haven't noticed I'm a trend follower and breakout trader now (notice how my P&L suddenly turned very consistently green not too long ago once I figured that out?) and the only time I counter-trend is after a reversal signal is offered (as I did today in my sim account with CL and will attach those trades as well). There was no short signal on AAPL today until much later when a lower high was put in, so there's no way AAPL would've eaten my lunch had I been trading it.
And here's what I did after spending the morning in CL school and I called these in real time by the way.
+339 in ES Tough micro-range day -- opening 60 minute range was 3.5 es. Was hoping for a nice breakout of the pre-opening triangle. Lucky to get out green.
mtnrnr, nice job with ES on a day like today +$285 I planned to trade CL live today, then hesitated on two solid entries and decided I had a mental block against it, so spent some more time in sim, and traded a bit of AAPL in between to pay the bills. I did well again with CL in sim and will see if I can take my signals live tomorrow.