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whre1, Great post. I think in images for sure. I think I will start to more and more actively visualise myself in an imaginary future waiting for a settup, and confidently putting on the the trade. As you wrote - the modality of thought and it's order is to my future reality what words are to a...

10 good methods. 1) Pivot point, S and R levels and the mid points between PP and S - R levels make good targets. 2) If it is a reversal trade look at the 34 Ema on the higher time frames - ie the 34 ema on the 13 min. chart if you trading of the 3 minute chart - it often is a strong support...

If you have to ask such a question then the answer is no. Currently Eur/Gbp Long at .6785 - a nice swing play - inverse head and shoulders on the daily.

JM, Usually all in all out, as I fear that i would revenge trade if it was going against me. All in all out - if it doesn't work I just take a break wait for a few more hours for something else to crop up on another pair. I'm usually done with that pair for the day if i get stopped out - I have...

Logically that is true but in practise not so - the worry is always just around the corner. Not really a goal as such - although I like to put on at least two trades a day as that is all i can handle at this stage. Again, its the difference between scalping and intraday swing. Scalping...

I made up a Trading Diary - record all the transactions as well as emotions that i feel at the time of putting on the trade. I can see that working out very well - but I never had the discipline to follow it. Re the mental issue, I am thinking of seeing a counsellor again.

Again well said, I have been thinking to forgert the Asian session and just not go near the computer in that time - perhaps I am trying too hard and the net result is that i am burning myself out.

In forex I like looking for the high probability settups that will move a bit - and the one hour t/f is a very good time frame - it is the balance between the small timeframes (5-15 minute) and the large ones (4hour, daily). That way when I'm in I can let it go even if it comes back to BE a few...

Point noted Since middle of last year full time. I took a break for a while when things wern't working out until before the new year. I like to swim and make it a competition of how many laps I can do. I say at the outset "I will do X amount of laps regardless" Am I afraid of success? I...

Forex is different. It's not that I sit all day in front of the screen. I wait for an hour or 3 for the settup at market open (I live in Sydney and start at 9am) and put on the trade. Take a walk, eat, check the chart after a while, move stop to BE and set targets when price action dictates. Too...

I've known this and I will do it, thank s for the support. But the question remains - why do i feel so - even if i desensitise myself by doing it many times I bet i will still feel the pressure again - does it ever go away permanently - logic would dictate that it should but I can't for the life...

I had friends of mine who know my potential offer me money to trade for a percentage of the profits. I reasoned that I would feel like a fund manager as oppossed to a lone trader and I would be "more serious". I never followed it up as i was worried that I would have someone "cramping my style"...

I am not trading with scared money. I have proven my system since late last year so I know it works - my point is why - after all this time do i still feel those feelings of being trigger shy when everything else is saying that it's a go. The suggestion earlier was raised of trading many times a...

Well said. My dilemma is that I beat myself up for not taking a winning trade although the losses take longer to kick in – usually I don’t feel so bad at the time – but I feel shitty the next hour/day

Now that I think about it - I am usually overly worried that this trade is going to be a loss maker. Even though I should be feeling positive because all the waiting I have been doing has come to a textbook settup - yet I still feel difficulty in pulling the trigger - because i think about the...

Also I have a couple of questions for you. What do you trade? Currencies How many trades do you make each day? 1-4 trades a day What is your trading style? Look for pullbacks in a trend or reversals. I trade of the one hour charts - 5 minute and second charts to fine tune. Indicator and...

I have noticed that very often just when a good trade settup emerges - I usually feel uncomfortable, I usually experience a kind of "minor freeze" almost as if I have to force myself to put on the trade. I am looking for every excuse not to put on the trade, when I am about to go for it, and...

NZD is just a joke - sKaLpZy where are you? 1 or 2 Yen trades in the morning, 1 or 3 Swissy trades in the afternoon/evening/night/early morning.

My 5 minute mental snapshot during the trading day waiting for the setup ... I wonder what they are saying on ET What time is it in Singapore/dubai/Buenos aires/Hawaii right now Look at yesterday’s head and shoulders formation That time frame is telling me up but this one is kind of...

Do market wizards post on web trading forums like ET? Discuss. At first I thought of putting poll options like who cares, don't know or they used to, but I want to keep it simple.