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5 trades, 1 winner, 2 losers, 2 b/e for -1.00 pt. Net for the day: -74.00 Net for the week: -165.20 Net for the month: -924.60 I was watching something new today, concerning my re-entries back into the trend. Toward the end of the day, I saw the double top at 929. Had a major...

First day trading the 5. 7 trades, 2 winners, 4 losers, 1 b/e for -1.50 pts. 5 missed entries. Net for the Day: -108.60 Net for the Week: -91.20 Net for the Month: -850.60

5 trades, 3 winners, 2 losers for +1.50 pts. Net for the day: +51.00 Net for the week: +17.40 Net for the month: -742.00 Trading the 5 minute chart tomorrow.

I was looking for a move to about 951ish, to about where we were before the numbers hit, the highest it got was 949.50. I find that usually numbers moves retrace to where they were at 10:00. Today I was wrong. H

Another post by darkhorse that I wanted in the journal Here's a useful exercise for anyone serious about improving: 1) Write out your methodology in full. Leave nothing out. Explain everything in full detail, as if you were writing it for your gramma who knows nothing about markets...

4 trades, 2 b/e and 2 losers for net of -3 pts. Net for the Day: -169.20 Net for the Week: -33.60 Net for the Month: -793.00 Today was a great day. I took every entry at the point I should have. One missed trade that blew by my entry before I even knew I had an entry. Lost money...

I ran across this post, and wanted it in this journal.:)

Plum, thanks for the post, I am going to pull one part of it and commment on it, cuz you brought out something that I might not have communicated correctly, in my post last night. My entry is my entry. When it shows up, I don't sit there and "wait for the correct color lightnening bolt"...

My point exactly. Which means taking the trade, and embracing the risk.

All my arrows for the ME's are drawn during the day, as they happen. I see them real time, and "for some reason or another" I am not taking them. I see the setup, have my trigger bar, know what price I am supposed to enter, and then when that price hits, I hesitate, then she goes beyond my...

Yes, these are non exectuted entry signals. :mad:

Hey man, Just figured out if you hold the curser over the chart, and let the button appear in the lower right corner, then you click on that button, the chart gets big. I'm getting smarter all the time!!! :D Try looking at a 3 minute chart, lot less noise. Question, are you...

3 trades, 2 winners, 1 loser for +3.00 pts

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Only traded the morning, gone most of the day. 1 trade, 1 loser for -2 Net for the day: -104.8 Net for the Week: -468.10 Net for the Month: -864.20

My apologies to all. Thanks gerry for pointing it out. Here is the correct chart for Thursday, 8-22-02. :D

7 trades, 1 win, 4 losses, 2 b/e for -4 pts. ME (missed entries) - 5 Net for the day: -233.60 Net for the week: -363.30 Net for the month: -759.40 Tighter stops killed me on 3 of 7 trades, chased 1 (really 2 T2 and T4), didn't stick to exits on 1, jumped out early on 1...

Hey Dizman, No disrespect taken at all. And I concurr, my trading has gotten way to complicated, at I stated yesterday. Yesterday my trading was "easier" than it has since I've come back to real $$$, was it the larger swings, larger overall range (20 pt range vs. 12 pt range), less stuff on...