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I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm a solid day trader and a nervous swing trader (I often swing trade stocks in the IRA accounts). I occasionally hedge my swing positions with options which allows me to hold through a little heat and give the trade time to do its thing, but if it doesn't...

Never read that, but that post from Cornixforex is printed out and sits right in front of me. I read it out loud every morning before I activate my platform. It's been a great inspiration for me to keep trading all setups, period. No hemming and hawing; if it walks like a setup and it quacks...

No only thought about it, actually did it @ .32 off the double touch to .27, mainly because I shorted earlier @ 98.80, covered @ 98.04 off the rebound from just below the round number because a) it was in my target zone and b) FOMC on the way, and then was amazingly pissed I didn't hold the...

Cornixforex posted this last month on his blog: "I have read the book recently, about psychological training of professional athletes, particularly pro shooters. The most interesting point for me was, that to limit stress (which is fatal factor for any serious competition), professional...

Well, couldn't move initial target fast enough to let the remainder run, but I'll take the 10+ :eek:

1st half slipped out @ 62.75 Remainder locked @ 63.25

Locking half @ 62.50

stp to b/e, tgt 59.75

sh 6.50

Use an OCO order with your stop and target bracketed and walk away until an alarm alerts you that an order was filled.

When you say you exited too soon, do you mean you exited before your profit target (or target zone) was hit, or that you exited based on your trading plan and then priced moved further in your favor without you? There's a difference. If you hold for target and price then keeps going without you...

Yeah, me too with stocks and options swing trades. I just stick with day trading now. Instant gratification on the profit side and minor pain on the loss side :cool:

I prefer to treat a swing trade using the daily chart much as I would an intraday swing using the 5-min chart. You went long on 3/10, but I'm not sure what time you took the position. In the 3/10 overnight session, price broke the key near-term support level of 103.33, then continued to break...

The ATS is programmed to be a pure dumbass price action pivot trader and if there's a setup that passes the "anti-chop exclusion" criteria, it arms itself to pull the trigger without regard for those trivial things like trend, moving averages, major news events, "looks like a weak POS", etc. It...

Notes, if you want to make posts like this, make them at the NYMEX open, not after the entire day has played out and you can look at the chart after-the-fact and tell everyone what they could've done if they could travel forward in time. I'm very proud of being weak, feeble-minded and...

I'm with you on that 100%. I had a trade early this morning, a short I took expecting a break of the 102.36 low at the time. Price came in to that level quite fast and I grabbed on my b/e stop order, started to drag it to lock in 20 ticks profit in case the breakout failed and price found...

On your short @ 102.48, why 12 ticks? I was short 102.45 at 6:45 your time, looks like the same 1-min setup, targeting a break of 102.21 and got a whole lotta ticks outta that one.

Lately, I've been testing the waters with some anticipatory entries. For example, earlier when I wanted to short @ 103.30, that would've been an anticipatory entry, anticipating that previous S would hold as R, since we were in a strong down trend. I prefer to do the anticipatory trades in...

My initial stop on trades is 20 ticks, but in this case I moved it to b/e pretty quick :)

Calling it a day. Not every day you get the equivalent of a swing trade in 10 minutes :cool: