Recent content by swimmus

Yes. I actually was funded using it as a paper trade tool on a strategy I was practicing. Had a little more skin in the game. I trade a personal account too.

Nope, actually lost the account in April then redid an eval soon after to get funded again. I now keep an account close on an eval so I can be set up quickly if I lose again. I trade 2 or 4 lots of micros, so its hard to build up enough to get your cushion and withdrawal. I have a 25k account...

Yes it did. Like anyone's chart, they can all look like mashed potatoes to someone! lol. Good analogy!

I am purposefully watching without intent to trade today and tomorrow. Its a practice I have found from Peter Davies videos forma few years ago. In it, he states watching the market without any intent opens you up and I have seen that happen in my own trading. For today and tomorrow, I am only...

Nice. Are you still in the area!!

Hello, Looking to find traders in my region to get together on a regular basis to discuss trading and trading related topics. No plans of yet, just throwing it out. One thing that I would like personally, is a place that I could go to from time to time, like an office, that other traders come...

Here is a screen shot of one of the better trades today. with my style, I find my self scratching a fair amount of trades.

Here is the executions for today, did not get screen shots but will try later.

I entered this short at a key level - Initial balance High. Since the context for me is 2 way trading at this moment, I entered a short based upon the probability to revert back to the center. I used a stop run and a trigger afterward to see exhaustion of the buyers before going short. The...

Sure can, here is the chart with annotations.

Here is a trade from the morning before I started work. The ES went to an area, 4115, that was an obstacle on a HTF chart, so I went short with a very tight stop and a nice RR. Closed a touch sooner than I wanted to, had to work. Got 10 points on the runner and 3 on the first lot for 13 points...

Hey, not sure if videos are cool or not, It was ambiguous in the details. If this is not cool, let me know and I will remove and not post videos. T This is a trading journal I do, its a video format. Last Friday was one of the worst trading days in recent memory.