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It occurred to me yesterday that I've spent most of my time studying entries . Next I've spent a good amount on exits , trade management and my mental errors/psych side. What I haven't done is spend enough time on the Set up. The set up should come from the context of a HTF and the entry...

Last week I was getting good entries then mismanaging trades. This week so far can't even get good entries. I 'm taking trades I believe I should be taking but win rate is very low so i'm really questioning what i'm doing at the moment. (again though last week I felt fine) Yesterday and today...

Thanks RN. Yep, Trend lines. I'm probably inconsistent in using them. Which tells me either use 'em or don't but be consistent. I'll use them.

You may want to try a hypnosis MP3 http://www.hypnosisconcepts.com/insomnia/ Seinfeld Episode: "The Contest"

Thanks, ND. Good to hear that. On Thursday I added to my rules move stop to -2 once trade moves +10. Since I often enter on a break of S/R i'm willing to allow price to come back to test the area + a tick or two. BTW, that Stonehenge video is hilarious !

Here's the other wed. trade I should have held to my 25 tick target. The first short.

Thanks RN, Progress is slowly being made. I only spent a couple days on sim then back to Live. Week end 11/8: - 23 ticks, this past week 11/15: +32 ticks. I've been journaling in my private journal 3-4 days a week. Misc. thoughts and notes on the positive things i'm doing and negative...

Still here. Not a lot of live trading this month. This week I had 3 days of jury duty. My fourth time to actually be on a jury. Traded Monday and Friday. Last week some sim and some live. Today was notable because it was the first time I added to a winner. The add turned out to be a quick...

Anybody still looking for shorts here ? Some channel support and a bit of support on daily. Sitting on hands over here.

Thanks for the link. I haven't seen that site before.

Great , got it. Thanks, Ammo .

Thank you Ammo. Your suggestions are always appreciated. Interesting. Is this a decent example of what you are suggesting ? If a traders internal dialog is " If price does 'X' I will enter and if it fails to do 'Y' after a time interval I will exit" should be reframed as " If price...

That's interesting Handle, thanks. So how did you eventually , I assume, get your brain in line with your desires ? Was it the hypnosis or does it just come together naturally over time? Thanks.

Thanks ND. ============ Thanks RN. Over the past two weeks I've gone from making mental mistakes of not taking trades and not trading in a calm state of mind to this week taking poor set ups. Poor set ups is probably being generous, more likely set ups that are not in my plan. Since my...

Back to sim next week. I've been in a large drawdown giving back a lot of the profits I've slowly accumulated this year. I have a typical retail traders small account so the absolute dollar loss is not significant. But my goal is to get consistent so I can trade a larger account and generate...

Thank you RN, I had not thought of logging my trades during the session. I always do my review after EOD. Today I did log during the session. I've got codes for all my set ups, exits and mistakes so it's actually not difficult to do after each trade. Today was slow though. :) I'll still do...

Down again last week. Don't have the exact numbers in front of me but it was more than I would have liked. Rather more than it should have been. I've re -done my review process so i'm tracking in excel my execution and mental errors as well as results by set up type. Most of my poor...

I'm doing it the lazy way as part of my trade review. Then noted on my trade review worksheet. I think I may have to step it up and keep actual stats. Thank you ! ================= -24 ticks for the week, about - $340. Thanks to Nkhoi for pointing out rollover weeks can be...

Price is in a downtrend from the open and below the Supply Line. The possible set up to buy at 32 would be a Double Bottom counter trend reversal trade. Reversal trades needs something to reverse which is an extended move. That is not the case here, any up move would soon be met with overhead...

Looks like above 1710 on cash where my Elliot wave count would be wrong. Bot a few more Oct 39 calls on SDS this am @ .41 Actually expecting a loss on this but this is the plan. Now back to CL.