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I aggressively entered long on NQ Tri. No official break though. -Tech

I now see your chart starts at market hours. And that volume bars do not work after hours very well. Nevermind... unless otherwise. :cool:

Anek, My charts are not set to 24hrs. Just market hours. I noticed you saw that D bottom this morning in relation to a 24 hr chart. Do you take price after hours as seriously as market hours? I realize I maybe depriving myself charting only during market hours. -Tech

I'm interpreting this as to say that the less or no wick on confirmation candles the better(stronger). Am I far off? -Tech

I think I went a couple of NQ points in the red. Still sim trading. I remember Anek making that point about how success lies between cutting losers short and letting winners run. Makes perfect sense. Not all setups work, but the ones that do can potentially put the food on the table. -Tech

I didn't break even. My stops were logical as far as where most recent hi/lo were. I do try and take every signal I see. Although, I do see myself taking signals that have only 1 LH or only 1 HL. I think I'm not waiting for the trend to fully develop. Today I took some Channel break...

Have to quit for the day. I had trouble with breaks all day. A couple I see as mistakes, but I think they were pretty AHG to me. Another day at school.... -Tech

I took that trade on NQ. Ironically I traded it based on LHs and LLs.

Anek, Analyzing charts for me make the setups look easy. Realtime, that's a whole other story. Screen time I guess. -Tech

Another question, When experiencing a chop zone. Do you avoid any setups that fall in that price zone for concern of price getting sucked into chop again? -Tech

Missed the morning move on NQ. After analyzing it, I see it could have been AHG worthy. Not sure though. Found myself trying to trade channel breaks. Got hacked up. I think I'm just thirsty for action all the time. As you guys have seen from my charts, that's a big obstacle for me...

Anek, Piscuy, or anyone... Let's say it's a bull trend with a double top. Price moves down to middle low. How seriously do you take the break of the middle low? If price blows by the break? If price hesitates and then breaks? etc? I'm looking at time&sales, which I don't really...

Calling it a day. I felt wiser today even though I made some good mistakes to learn off of. 4 trades. 1 winner. 3 losers (should be 2 losers) My chart has comments. Today felt good based on my learning curve. -Tech

No, I played the break above tho. -Tech

I don't think so, but I've never really looked too hard. Quote Tracker is an excellent charting platform that uses IB feed. Its also free. It has Volume bars. You can also paint the bars like Anek's.

Yes! Another reason why I should avoid them! -Tech

I was referring to the bars whose close confirms entering a trade. When they are long, I think it might be an indication of the beginning of chop, Or already a half exhausted move, etc. Talking only about the confirmation bars(this time).

Hmmmm. Well, that is a good question.:) I think it would be logical to wait for a retrace, but for how long do I wait? In theory, it would be easier to just let them pass on by, and then wait for another setup. My thoughts are to reduce my trading frequency and be more selective. How...

I did not get to trade today. Although I've done an end of day analysis on NQ. I'm trying to look as macro as possible. I find this could really help me decrease my itchy trading finger. Anyway, it boiled down to 3 trades. Easy to see after the fact, I know. One thing I've noted were...

Sweet! Thanks Babe. :) -Tech