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it7, thanks for the thread and the video. how do you use stochastics? if you were in a downtrend bias would you not want to 1) short a price pullback with stochastics rolling over 80 and under as a signal to short and 2) stochastics moving under 20 during consolidation...

Instynct, sorry to see that you had a negative pnl for today. still had a nice week overall :) do you mind sharing the chart from today. i find it beneficial to see trades that ended up in loss. did you follow your plan and stats just did not work out or? what do you think about using few...

are you going to be scaling in/out 2 contracts as part of new improved strategy or was this just one trade today and will continue with 1 contract execution as usual. when you said "played it to perfection" does that mean you had waited all day for a setup per your trading plan? did this...

dolphins, thanks for continued posting. keep up the good work. :) regards, tihfa

have a moderator split it off at the start of 2012 (page 97 - last trade closed on 1/10) otherwise it makes no sense to split it now... tihfa

austinp, can you explain "completely different" statement as difference between ES and CL? thanks, tihfa

after seeing this chart i am strongly recommending for you to skip couple days of trading and spend time going through this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113456 Also look at NoDoji threads and posts. There are more thread to suggest, but this is...

second that...i am trying to write an automated trading algo with capital of 20-30k trading ETFs and work my way up to futures. be nice to see journal from some already doing that. thanks, tihfa

2steps, you may or may not have a problem. one way i have been dealing with mental aspect of trading is to code my plan and then to automate it. this has kept me on the side for a very long time now forcing screen time only and clarifying concepts through coding. i am getting a bit...

dolphins, what are your regular trading hours since i see you usually done around US EST RTH. i am in EST time zone and have to work, perhaps i can get up around 3am to trade through 8am US EST time. are you trading anything else besides CL? thanks, tihfa

FYI...masterthegap.com already did some legwork...

Perhaps this is the reason NOD is using a 1min to narrow and zero in further entry/exit prices, thus your observation above...

Rol, thank you for keeping the journal. It is very inspiring and motivating! I have couple of questions: 1) you mentioned way back that it took you 4 years to develop the system - was part of that figuring how to setup tradestation on a server, internet connection etc... 2) i am...

just wanted to thank you, bmwhendrix and instynct for keeping the journal entries. it's pretty awesome and inspiring to see your dedication day in and day out. just keep it going :) tihfa

Why dont you share it with all of us then? Danke

RedTank, what did you mean by: "When something does not work as expected I reduce it's size until I'm completely flat and with a small loss." 1) Does this mean you keep scaling out your initial losing entry i.e. sell a third then sell the 2nd third and final remaining third if trade...

feeman, thanks for the thread. can you post the charts along your statements. i prefer charts over the statements or blotter. it is inspiring to see a trader actually trading every day, committed to the business day in, day out. take care, tihfa

2 steps, you should consider this a blessing that you only lost few grand and not have had have a bigger account to blow. that being said, having a small account makes things harder. however in your case the primary problem was lack of trading plan and a statistically proven edge, in...

if small stop is considered to be smallest setup violation range, what should that range be with respect to projected reward range? basically, do we care more about R:R or stop amount by itself? is there a R:R ratio such that further price action understanding or stop optimizing is not...

mm, would it help you with your trading strategy if you traded during daytime without any dayjob distractions?if so, how would it help? would you be able to time your entries better or control stop-loss exits or trail your profit exits better? is there a reason you cannot automate your...