Recent content by racyb

Aren't we getting a bit spoiled :D

On a longer time frame, it is an up trend line. Draw a trend line from Friday's RTH low to today's RTH low and voila, almost to the tick. I know that's an ancient trend line to you. :p

Hey, at least you took that trade. I wussed out on that beautiful symmetrical triangle break, too bad it didn't follow through. You are right nothing to complain about, lucky I was able to dig myself out of an ~80 tick hole. Please excuse my bitching and moaning, I do that a lot :D

Right there with you. 28 RTH trades today and I am still at BE. I picked great levels today, but when they are too good the entries suffer through slippage. I was routinely getting slipped 10+ ticks earlier this morning. Couple that with the high volatility = hard to hold on to trades...

Right there with you. 28 RTH trades today and I am still at BE. I picked great levels today, but when they are too good the entries suffer through slippage. I was routinely getting slipped 10+ ticks earlier this morning. Couple that with the high volatility = hard to hold on to trades...

Yes, sorry Bighog, I forgot to reference you in my original post. I also remember him saying that this also works because for most days the range expansion occurs in the AM. So in essence the goal is to be in the trade in the right direction and near the start of the move.

Agreed that should have been my next trade, and in fact I was in the process of trying to click the mouse, but my finger just wouldn't budge. I am still in the midst of converting from a counter-trend mentality to going with the trend and boy is it hard! But, I must say that forcing myself...

I went long (1148.25) at the break of the high of the low bar (3:10PM) with anticipation to hold till close. However, got shaken out early on the 3:30PM bar and took a profit of 2 pts and missed the 10+ pts move up. I was contemplating a re-entry at my original entry price which occurred at...