Recent content by Jay

...read back a bit, you're still sim... CL made a nice measured move there after CPI news, looks like some profit taking going on now, I don't trade news.

Ideas of futures levels, patterns, mostly technical, updates, progress reports.... Feel free to comment, please keep it short.

I guess I was tired, I missed the colors somehow. I've been extremely cautious lately, trying to hold on to recent best gains I've had in 19 months, I need to keep this green bar, badly, on P&L. Are you trading live in CL? Are you trading other contracts? I used QM for oil, I keep a...

try forex forums, you'll find tons of mt4 info, also factory, and of course, those social networking type sites, like connect, etc., they mostly use it also, and search for ea, it's endless. I don't use any ea at all, just pa. GL

I scalp out, but my entries are improving, so my plan is to continue scalping out, and as long as my entries are consistently high quality, I'll either add funds or reach gain point where I will have enough account cushion for 2 contract and always scalp out on 1, then advance stop to be+1 on...

I know Kung-Futures

to answer the question from OP, I'd say it was my emotion management. I didn't master them, I mastered my management of me & them & trading. ....great question for a thread, seriously, it looks long, I plan to go thru all of it.

looking at CL 12/13 excellent entries just after noon there, I passed on those since I tend to omit midday, but they had really nice follow thru, I see you're scalping?...

I plunked down $25k and quit my job. I lost 50% in 3 months. I slowed down, lost the rest in the next full year. I quit. almost, I traded super cheap options... got back in with remaining retirement $. Lost it. so my expectations, whatever they were, were to double my money in a year, etc...

make a plan. set goals. for example. 1. read first book on trading and tear it up - take notes, underline stuff, get important parts of it. 2. do same with the next 10 books. 3. between books, sim trade on demo accounts and see if anything you read has any application at all to what you are...

a little to simplistic, repetitive, not a good list. I have a list of my own that's probably 250 steps. Most important steps for me were: 248: revelation regarding my emotions 249: implement revelation regarding emotions by adjusting my behavior in the market, 250: specialize in the one...

take your time, take lots of notes, keep a journal so you can see what you thought and then what you learned and how it influenced your thought after that, and what you experienced and how that affected you, and what your feelings are during analysis out of the market, during market trading...

good quote, it makes sense. I lost my grub stake plus some more, i felt every loss, it made me work really hard...

maybe demo trade forex for a year, learn technical analysis, try to apply it, never fund account until consistently profitable