Well, even though I have hard cable in all rooms, lol, don't like wifi, just not much of posting from nights of being in restroom, I get treatments every two weeks and each time taking longer to recoup, eating is constant reminder of what goes down will come back no matter what one eats. BUT once I get cleared by doctors, I am gone and postings be far less as I want to travel, have everything I require set up here at home and I be poof. Sarcoidosis is a disease, no cure, treat the problems as they arise most often in lungs as inflammation cause by body believes something is wrong but there isn't, jams up lymph nods, causes fevers for weeks at a time on/off and nothing gets rids of it successfully, I know when mine comes on, I have 5 minutes to get in bed as fatigue comes on strong, my smell ability is now always strong. Not all areas of USA has it, most are born in Midwest or east coast USA, and eastern side of South America, am thinking what is in water. I got rid of Fibromyalgeria 99% but stop eating meats, dairy, fats and salt, hormones in foods causes Fibro. You are what you eat. New studies being done on Berberine if one is diabetic as it keeps type 2 away by taking Grape Root and keep checking blood sugar. Funny only when one gets ill, you take more keen sense of health. I recently received what is done in Europe to do before/after chemo treatments of Vit C infusion, problem with USA, if drug companies can't make big bucks on something, alternatives not done.
Deep respect for you Handle123, to go through all this and still have energy to post and to trade successful. Whenever I will be complaining and moaning about trivial things, I'll try to remember you! I wish you the best of luck!
Thank you all for kind words of support. I figured out one day I have done over 100,000 trades in my lifetime, when I have my laptop on a table/backup sitting nearby or lap, I just go into automatic zone, like a robot waiting for next trade, watching for patterns that would negate a trade, 60 minute trendline or if swing gets to far along nearing average swing length to either pass on trade or give it much less time to get going than normal, it is ok to pass on trades so long as there is valid reason to negate the trade. I really can't wait till I hear word "remission", have my bags packed already, going to only do option trades on the road, once a week some day trading, don't want to lose it. Couldn't sleep much last night, just doing Crude Oil and currency Failures most of the nite to pass time. It just a game, numbers and I love to win. Go get "em all !!!
YK, If it is to be - it is up to YOU Hope is a piss poor technique Any thing & every thing that is not trading related - when we're trading - does not matter RN
Friend told me the other day of some wise words. "Do or Do Not. There is no try." -YODA. Happy Trading Yukon. You're welcome for amazing quote. -JS
PDay #1 - Slept well, and woke up early ready for the day. Standard routine prior to trading, but I reviewed my game plan one more time before I started the day. Trading went fine enough, but I had to sit through the frustration of not closing out a trade when it was only 4 ticks from my profit target and then reversed. Surprising enough I also hit rule #3 with a trade that went over the 15 min mark. My focus was solely on trading the plan, sticking to the plan which I did. However, I am amazed at how much E-Motion was going through my brain while those trades were on. Trying to justify some reason to adjust or break the rules just because I was pretty sure the market would go against me. Then got to my daily loss limit, and lo and behold how the temptation hit to just take a small trade beyond it. So again, I had to remind myself to stick with the plan. Shut it down. On the good side, I left the trading session not too tired or worn out. Felt somewhat... Good. Checkmark. -416
Yukoner, It seems your pysch has become stronger, it is much tougher than most consider to abide by ones own rules, the TEMPTATION. But whatever your rules of the your signals are not happening. Could be not suitable to your personality, no harmony of market flow, do yopu notice signals to be what phase of the swing?
Why the hell an however (rhetorical) ========================= To piggyback onto H123 Your mind is way too active / over reactive Could be your approach / methodology is not / does not marry up to your personality Could be trust issues (in the approach / methodology) Could be trust issues in your self Could be emotional immaturity Could be crap from the past rearing its ugly head Could be (extraneous) crap from the present rearing its ugly head Could be..., could be..., could be ============== Do you find any of those extraneous thoughts / emotions..., in any small way..., beneficial to your trading Obviously the answer is; hell no ================= Do you have a plan - to rid / get past / get over / resolve / set aside - this useless..., even detrimental aspect Your mind is way too overactive - while trading - with crap that doesn't matter You have that; "the mkt is out to get me" mentality ("pretty sure the mkt would go against me") There is no possible way of knowing this...., so thinking it is a useless waste of time/ effort/ emotional capital - not to mention a complete and total distraction from making widgets ========================================= This is your current achilles heel YK - and will be till it resolved We are only ever as strong - as our weakest link RN
YK, Are you still trading 2 cars ? Using a daily total max. loss of 40 ticks overall ? If so, then 20 ticks a car max loss seems pretty tight. Might be contributing to stress. If, I'm wrong about what you're doing then... never mind jas
PDay #2 - Had a slightly later night than normal, woke up prior to alarm, but decided to sleep in until before EIA report... for me that means, I woke up at 5:15 am and got to sleep in until 6:50 am. Prior to starting to trade I reread what @Redneck said above and specifically the part " Do you find any of those extraneous thoughts / emotions..., in any small way..., beneficial to your trading Obviously the answer is; hell no" So I moved forward to trade as normal, but I tried to just allow my mind to stay calm and tell myself to just let things work out. That I had no idea how the trade would work out... I just don't mess with it the plan. Overall the day was good. My first trade was excellent, unfortunately stopped out exactly on the low of the post EIA move, but that was fine as I had executed exactly as plan.. and that was excellent. Checkmark. At times I was actually tempted to move my profit target further away, but again, that was temptation to deviate from my plan. Then of course it sucked to see a trade go 15 ticks in my favor, only to stop me out... But the cool thing today, was that my brain was quieter... I find it really helps to focus on just doing the correct action. I'm not going to try to defend that this new plan is the best way to trade, but right now for me... I think it is very important that I prove to myself consistency at staying disciplined with a plan... zero deviation. After that, I can upgrade. +185