Recent content by Yukoner

You aren't describing a real prop firm. TRUE prop puts up their own money, trains the trader, and has a vested interest in seeing them succeed.

It sounds like you are controlling your risk, but I would ask why you are stopping for the day once you reach a certain profit point? If you are stopping because you are tired, or lack of focus, or time is running out... that is different, but in my opinion you are limiting your gains as a...

@Gotcha A lot of what you say about focusing one the trades, and not letting any single trade really affect you... sure, that is right. And the majority of time that is what I do. I see your point about feelings, but I don't believe it is accurate that you can just push them away. The...

June 22 - 2018 I haven't read the replies yet, but thanks!:thumbsup: I wanted to post this first with a clear head. I started explaining some of what I was feeling to my wife last night... and holy smokes, she pulled a total "Wendy Rhoades" on me. :cool: It really helped me get my head on...

June 21 - 2018 I had a real break through today. However, it took a low moment to get there. It was pointed out to me by someone I have HUGE respect for that I was in a state of mental fatigue. Some points were given to help, and so now I am pursuing that and working on meditation. But that...

June 20 - 2018 Basically breakeven for the week. I find it interesting now, that I don't consider that a good place to be. I actually would expect to be up for the week. Which really shows me how far I have come, because there was a time that being breakeven I would have celebrated. I did...

June 18, 2018 Started the day feeling quite refreshed after a relaxing weekend. Put on some good trades with much more profit potential, but stuck with my plan of exiting where I had planned to. That helped keep my mindset healthy, and slowly kept building up the account. I did have one...

Well, I live out on the West Coast of North America... so equity markets open at 6:30 am. Typically my day starts with me being wide awake at 5:00 am. No alarm clock. I function quite well, on almost exactly 6 hours of sleep. The difference for me has been nutrition. For the last 18 months...

June 16 - 2018 Started trading live for the prop firm on Wednesday and had a bit of jitters... Thursday too. Decided to take Friday off as it was Quad Witching. The jitters were expected, but some of the trades were a bit frustrating.... I'd see my profit target hit, but not filled! Stops...

Thanks @Handle123 its good to be back. Hope you are doing well! Good advice as always. Today ended with no trades filled. Like I said, planned on being picky. Tomorrow with FOMC should be interesting. Good Trades, Yukoner

June 12 - 2018 Live account is up and running. Threw a couple of orders out there just to double check everything is working correctly, but no trades yet. With Rollover in equities and FOMC this week, its really not a great week to be trading. Plan is to be extremely picky on my trades, as...

So what changed? So many things had to change in my life. Sometimes when I look back, I don't recognize that guy from 2014 (let alone 2007)... he feels like a stranger, even though I know that was me. 1) I wanted certainty so bad! I didn't want to put on a trade unless it was going to be a...

Thursday June 07 - 2018 8 pages of legal documents, 4 pages of trading documents, and several pages of tax stuff (I am Canadian), but on Thursday I signed to trade remotely for a prop firm in the States. They will provide the risk capital and assume all losses. I just have to trade. This has...

"Just take the damn trade" -FuturesTrader71

Hey @caacapital, fwiw... I've only read this far. But it appears you have been actually changing your trading methodology (tighter stops and targets) in order to try and not hit the risk limits. I get that, I see the sense in that... however, it appears you are changing what you were doing...