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No trades today due to technical reasons

Thank you for your comments. I don't think I am frustrated swing trader. I am usually very well aware of those 3 points you mentioned however I'm not always following my own plan. This is constant "me vs me" fight and I started this journal so I can stop fighting myself and start making money money.

Day 1 No mistakes. Long AMAG, sold according to rules Short AGN, covered according to rules, was tempted to move stop breakeven but didn't want to break my rules. I printed out my rules and my mistakes, so before I do anything I made sure it was not on my "mistake list" +436...

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Thank you for your comments. For better or worse I don't believe in scaling out. In my opinion this is how I can end up making the most money on the smallest position size. I do scale out within the level and couple cents but not on different levels. I'll keep an eye on it and when market will...

Good points Jorge, you are right it's coming from getting anxious a lot of times. And I get anxious because as I get stopped out I increase my size. I don't know how to trade any other way, if I keep my position size the same and get stopped out 3-4 times then I won't make enough to cover my...

Some mistakes are fine, I'm trying to stop bad habbits that eat up my profits. I should not be making as many mistakes as I do now after 5 years of trading.

I'm just going to go cold turkey and stop making mistakes and start following my rules.

Today is the perfect day to start this journal. I made the same mistakes again: I moved my stop to break even only to get stopped out and miss on a big move, talking about TM stock. Instead of having $1K+ day I ended up losing money. I seem to make the same mistakes over and over and over...

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