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The 2nd was premarket. I don't trade premarket so I can't really comment on that. I have maybe a tiny sliver of confidence in premarket. I definitely wouldn't do it in live trading. (2nd referenced candle) The more optimal entry would be to buy 1 tick above the high of that doji, as a...

Could you show me an example of a place where you're having trouble with the pivots, with the price "snagging" you? I'm having trouble visualizing exactly what the problem is that you are having.

Congrats on your nicely profitable day. Whether sim or not, it should give you confidence. Just a couple things I wanted to mention. 1. Be careful of Trade 4. It was right at the open of the US market. Sometimes the setups that look good end up being not so good. It tends to get a...

I only have 1 monitor, 28" widescreen, Hanns-G. I was thinking about rearranging so that my computer was in front of the window so that I'd be looking directly outside behind my computer, but I don't know if that would work because I don't have a lot of room to move things around without it...

This probably isn't the best place to post this, but I'm hoping someone might be able to help me anyways. Anybody have any recommendations to reduce eye strain? I keep my blinds up, but it's still dark outside. I keep my light on, but it's not really that great. I spend a lot of time in...

Yes, avoid the counter trend trades. That was why I took a loss today. I limited the loss to -7 ticks. When the 20 EMA is sharply leaning one way or the other, don't trade the other way. In a ranging market, the EMA won't be as slanted and the EMA won't be as strong of a...

Stick to price action, learn to read price action, and profit. No need to confuse yourself with trying to figure out these supply/demand zones. Different things work for different people. Adding more doesn't necessarily make things easier to see. I trade price action with a 20EMA, as...

I missed the open today because I had to be somewhere this morning. I got back just after the Crude Inventories was reported. I took 1 trade, which was a losing trade. I missed a good long signal. Trade A: Short off the opening bar. Would have to move the stop to breakeven...

I didn't take any trades today. I should have. After all, it's just sim and I should be trying things, taking trades, figuring out how to trade this choppy mess. I had expected that today was going to end up back and forth like this with the holiday coming up. I was still watching for...

That still doesn't really answer my question unless I'm totally wrong here. How does one go from scalping 5 ticks to suddenly taking these bigger moves on a lot more contracts? I could see maybe going from 5 ticks to trying to get 25-50 tick moves, but to size up 6-8-10 contracts? I admit...

dejavu - Just curious... How do you go from scalping 5 ticks trying to keep a 100% win rate to suddenly having +300-400 tick days?

2 trades today. I really tried to stay in the flow of the market and not force anything. There were a lot of trades to take, but I tried to let the market tell me where price was going so I didn't see a lot of the trades at the time. Trade A: Break of the opening bar. You'd have to...

Frustrating today. I didn't take every signal, but then when I did, I ended up being on the wrong side of the market every time or I didn't get back in. Trade A: Had a good short signal just prior to the market open, failure to go down. Take a long. Trade 1: Stalling near the EMA...

Still sim trading today. I did a lot of thinking, and when I say a lot of thinking, what I mean is I overthought everything to the point where I missed a bunch of nice trades. Trade A: I can't remember if this was a channel line bounce or if it was just a second entry failed breakout...

Today has been a different day. I was trying something new. I backtested a few days last night and now I'm going to forward test it. I'm trying out 15 tick stops and taking 20 tick targets. The real strategy behind it all is an "all-or-nothing" mentality. I am actually quite excited about...

Strong trend today. You would think there would be profits galore, but I couldn't find a way to get in. I took 1 sim trade, but only saw one other entry and they were both off the 1min chart. Trade A: You have to see it on the 1min chart. There was a small low towards the left of the...

Dang, that would have turned out to be a nice trade! So many nice trades after the close.

Today I traded in sim. It was recommended to me last Friday and decided that I just need to do it to prove to myself that I can do this. It's a different ball game since you see every tick against you as something wrong with the trade and it takes much more patience to let the good trades work...

No trades today. Not in the game mentally. This week turned out to be a disappointment for me because I basically didn't follow through with my intentions. I'm always making excuses for everything. I need to just stop making excuses. There is no reason why I shouldn't be taking advantage of...

No trades today, no signals, bad trading day, very rangy. Not much to say. Trade A: This was the best signal of the day, I didn't take it. Price pulls back to the EMA, holds off just under the EMA and then the A bar closes down confirming a reversal. Would have been +1 as it came...