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covered at 11352, took way longer than I was expecting

Short at 11362

Thanks Gary, now I feel that I'm on the same page as you. Tomorrow I'll look over my plan and incorporate your exit parameters into it. I'll try to keep posting my trades in this journal along with everyone else if that's okay with everyone. Like I had said earlier, I've been working on a...

Make a lot of sense. I don't think I phrased myself correctly earlier though. I don't think the time of day would keep me out of a trade but it has shown me some high quality trades that I hadn't seen before. For example on Thursday when we had a pretty decent sell-off in the mid-morning and...

4re, Thanks for outlining your exit methods so clearly for me. I'll look them over later on this weekend when I get some more time but I think I can incorporate them well into my trading plan. I'm trading similar to your style where I'm coming up with short and longer-term support/resistance...

romik, I think your analysis was spot on, I need to just chill out and leave my initial stop in and not try and rationalize getting out of a trade early. I'm not using extraordinarily wide stops, so even when I get stopped out I'm not taking much of a hit. The way I feel is that I just...

YMZ, That 11280 level seems to be very important at the moment and has been defended vigorously by the bulls twice already this week. If you go back on the chart there is a gap from last week from 11243 - 11281. Once we get some consolidation and a break I'd look for price to try and fill...

LondonUSTrader, Thank you very much for the words of advice, it definitely is a purely psychological problem that I'm having. After tweaking and working on my system for months it seems to be very solid so now the last piece is to work on my head. One of the things I've thought about doing is...

Well I did learn about the 1030 reversal from him which has actually kept me out of a few bad trades the past few weeks.

Possible flag forming in the Russell mini??

Thanks Gary, that would be great. I've been trying different methods for a few months and have finally fine-tuned it to how I want it and to how I feel comfortable trading but this feels like the last jump I have to make. I have good triggers to get into trades, a reasonable stop-loss all the...

Ok, quick question to everyone here. I'm actually seeking a little psychological advice. I followed my plan this morning and was short YM at 11299 right before the open looking for it to go down and test the top of the big gap at 11281. I put my stop order in and my buy order in at 11282 but...

4re, Thanks for the kind words and I'm looking forward to keeping up with your journal and hopefully providing another method of trading futures to go along with everyone else's successful methods. Since I started going with the trend it has been much less stressful. When I traded against the...

I also forgot to add that on the YM, yesterdays low was about 11282 and there's a huge gap right below that which needs to get filled at some point....maybe tomorrow??

4re, Yeah, that market profile chart definitely looks like a crazy spelling bee at first. With the gap up today if you were looking to fade the opening gap you know that there was strong resistance in the YM at 11360 from the longer term profile. Since we've been in this chop for the...

I've been reading the journal for awhile and think that it's great, very good ideas and trades all around. I've begun trading futures recently (been trading stocks 3+ yrs) and have gotten lots of great trading ideas from you guys. I use market profile for my S/R levels and thought you guys might...

Strategery is right, they are called Chicago Trading Services and I've been a client for quite a while and have nothing but good things to say about them.