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I have a sign on my wall to this effect: "The second mouse gets the cheese." :D

Oh, I nailed a top and bottom once, early in my trading career. I had a short position on with a stop and profit target. The next morning price stopped me out to the tick of the day's high, then reversed and bottomed to the tick of my target. It was so uncanny I actually thought I was dreaming...

You're right. Trading 1 lot makes it difficult and my trading time yesterday was extremely limited, so with no time to keep on trading if stopped out back at b/e, I wanted SOMETHING out of the trade. I was ready to take profits at 15 ticks, and with 2 lots I would've taken that 15 ticks on half...

Or more likely, your consistency will just get better and better, and you'll continue to grow your returns without any grenades. :cool:

I have a formal plan and rules written out. The technical trading rules are very simple because there are only three types of trades I do: with-trend value entries (pullbacks in the trend that pivot near the falling or rising 20-bar EMA, better known as higher lows, lower highs), trend reversals...

This pretty much sums up how I took my biggest losses or churned my way to a losing day (overtrading, revenge trading). "Miss the boat" disease. I always took heat on those early entries and often ended up in "surely this has to retrace at some point" mess that never ended well. Then there...

I did a very thorough evaluation of my trades over a long period of time and found that trades after 11:30 were either losers or minimally profitable. I added to my rules "no trades after 11:30" and interestingly enough, I don't think I've had a losing day since. I think during that midday...

Yes it's been in a downtrend and quite oversold on the daily, so when it gapped up in pre-market I thought maybe MOS said something in their earnings call that was beneficial to POT, because MOS was down and POT was up. It was actually a decent long once it sold off the open, but my trading plan...

Nice trade, and wise use of stops! I shorted POT after the 10am news. I actually had a long bias because it opened gap up despite MOS gap down, but it turned out to be a gap-n-crap off the open, so I quickly switched sides (we traders are such traitors). I almost took profit on the first...

Awesome week, Neke! I noticed you do a lot of trades despite having a full time job. Is this your automated system doing most of that, and are you able to monitor it, or are you simply trusting it to handle everything properly?

Dog, I put this guy in the win column the day after I realized he had provided us with the Holy Grail and we didn't even know it: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177183&perpage=10&pagenumber=48

I've been talking about trading CL live for what seems like forever and I actually traded it and posted my call in CL Redux. At first I thought about posting a huge loss, but on April Fool's 2008 I fooled my husband by telling him Lehman went under, the Dow dropped 1000 points and they halted...

I'm glad you heard us! You thought about selling it because you wanted to "get back" what you missed. I assure you that kind of chasing never ends well!

xxxskier is a very good ES day trader who has posted his/her full trading blotters in the past demonstrating how to scale out of a larger position.

By "breezing through" I meant their earnings grew and beat estimates every quarter. What stocks did during that period was based on hedge fund and panic selling. I was referring to the performance of the company. Once the panic was over and the rally off lows began, it made sense for AAPL to...

Schiz, I had a little fun today and used your name in vain: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2790057#post2790057

+$14,200 Finally traded CL live, 4 lots because I've been so successful in my sim account. I ended up trading every pivot from above and below the Keltner channels, picking tops and bottoms perfectly all day and letting my winners run almost to the exact tick of the reversal. I can't believe...

Stopped out 84.67, trailing 10 ticks. Hate trading 1 lot...

sh @ 84.75, sl already to b/e

Jack trades bonds?