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Brass balls, buddy. Now, what I said was that it wasn't easy. I also held through today. :)

My God. What a wild ride. I took on way too much risk today after messing up pre-market (also with too much risk) - most likely not in balance after losing money yesterday. Definitely some gambling tendencies creeping back up here, but I had strong faith in the upside today. Now, I'm...

Nice move! The Outside Day I mentioned earlier is just about there now. I'm wondering if this can go even further, though. Maybe a green weekly close around 40? Might be too much, but I can see it.

Finally! :) I still see 30 and even 40 as targets, but I may be happy to take, say 22, today. And call it a holiday.

Okay. I can accept that. In the "other" thread where a guy was asking who was profitable not many shared their performance. Makes you wonder.

Thanks. You're probably right. I did check out the last Maundy Thursdays pre-market and they seemed to me to be more volatile than other type of holidays. I'm long and will probably just hold for target hoping for the best with a B/E stop (won't say where in case the algorithms are reading).

Would you mind sharing your year to date P&L (day) trading using TA? That's the only truth which matters, IMO. :) I shared mine in another thread. Nothing to brag about of course. Thank you.

My God. NQ almost filled yesterday's gap, but ES struggling to go anywhere. Maybe this is normal trading leading into a holiday, but I was expecting a bit more juice than this.

Them pullbacks! Not easy to hold long through these deep retraces. Anyone who says anything else is lying or trading 1 MES on a 100K account. :) Would assume we're still going higher as long as 4100 holds, but dipping this much below the Open was not ideal.

Hope you're right. We found support on the Open on this pullback and NQ is playing with, so that's a good sign. You see any targets for the day?

Let's get a green both daily and weekly candle today so that everyone can be happy for Easter holiday... :) Selling off for a new LOD from here would surprise me, but who the hell knows anything these days.

Outside Day potential, i.e., 4130. Maybe 4140 if we get really lucky. Not sure I'd hope for any more today. Any other takers? Not out of the woods yet, though.

That's an initial FBO of yesterday's LOD, but I'm not convinced until we see a good move above 4105 or so with NQ moving with. Late shorts are trapped here.

Needs to find a bid here now and snap back up - else it looks like 4080. Will take a long if we snap back inside range, but not shorting this.

NQ leading lower. Doesn't look too good for the long side today. May go long if we snap back up from yesterday's LOD, but right now this isn't looking too pretty. Lacking confidence on the short side as well.

There's a recent thread started yesterday much on the same subject. Check it out: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/anyone-here-actually-profitable.373538/ From most I've talked to 10 years seems to be a good approximation of what it takes to reach consistency - if at all. Curious to...

Stopped me out (trade not posted). Had the chance to break it even, but greed got the best of me. Assuming yesterday's LOD will hold and looking to re-enter long at some point. Weekly Open / 50 % Level at 31 / 32.50, so that's a hurdle to overcome to the upside if we start moving higher...

Still leaning long myself here, but I'm not very confident. Bit of a mess here on the 60-minute, IMO, and NQ is showing weakness, so I wouldn't be completely surprised to see another test of the lows before higher. Hopefully (as I'm long) this release spikes us higher and gives the market an...

Target in mind? Initial jobless claims coming up in 19. Was a non-event last week, though.

Good stuff. Thank you for sharing that. Curious then. What markets are you trading? I'd imagine most liquid markets today are dominated by algorithms, but arguably ES is probably the worst and most efficient in terms of constant arbitrage and hedging across correlated assets/indices. I think...