Excluding the ES Journal and the AHG thread --- there are precious few exchanges of actual 'nuts and bolts' of the trades people make here - and the why's and wherefores a dissapointing aspect of ET
Yeap I understand your point and it is well taken I am not scalping --- dont yet have the 'tools in the toolbox' to work that timeframe but its certainly an interesting discussion
bottom line is you hhave to learn to trade what the market is giving for that day. Some days is not a position trading day. The market will be too much up and down. Somedays will be a trending day and with a couple of trades you make some good gains. You have too learn that or the market will teach you that the expensive way I couldn't help but notice this on one of the best trending days last week we have had in a while and he made way too many turns. That tells me he needs to "paper trade" and learn the different market days. Once he does that he can trade with 1k and have success.
Made some mistakes today and it's reflected in my P/L which should have been much higher. I "experimented" during last night's session and the outcome was not good (-200). This morning I traded much better but missed 2 setups by a tick and cut one of my big winners short. Added new rule: No trading after hours (only premarket). Products traded: ES, ER2 Contracts: 31 Opening balance: 1204 Closing balance: 1228 Net P/L: 24 Discipline: 4