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Good read, and here's another read on it that gets you an early entry vs a bar break entry: Draw a trend line connecting the HOD to the pivot high at 9:35am ET. Then draw a parallel line touching the 9:10am pivot low. There's a channel that's been technically clean up to that point. I saw price...

I took this trade, long @ 85.78 and it was technically one of the most perfect moves I've ever encountered for letting a winner run. There was virtually no backwash the whole way up, not even a 1-min bar breaking the low of a previous one. Did you notice that your hard target was 1 tick above...

I've never had any interest in piggybacking anyone else's trades (until this week, but that's a separate story related to the 6E), but you should know that when you're in communication with other traders and more than one of you discover you took the same trade, and all of you talk loudly to the...

Your trades are all complicated and stuff. Stop limit here, add there, trail stop, if this tick, then that tick. :p Seriously, very nice trading there. As for EMG, I need to resubscribe to that ES Journal just so I know when to initiate those longs/shorts for 10 points!

Hahahaha! I had 7 b/e trades today in those channels. Two of them showed me 20 and 22 ticks and I held for more and gave it all back, greedy pig that I am :eek: I need to learn that channels tend to contain price and take SOMETHING off the table! I did catch the pre-market runner from the...

Well I have 2 trades this morning and both longs :p

Great Job, OW, that is the test of mental toughness, not only staying in there, but trading disciplined at that point isn't easy. After my slippage incident earlier, I decided to wait a while for FOMC to settle in. Even 15 minutes later, it was still pretty fast.

Holy crap, dja see the euro??? I backed away from my screen, afraid of being hit by shrapnel.

I think missing a good setup is a major cause of mistakes (over trading, revenge trading, impatience waiting for the next real setup). I saw a quote yesterday that reminded me of trading, of when you hesitate and miss a really good move and can't stop dwelling on it, and keep trying to "get...

Yes, it was the post-inventory breakout at 10:31am ET. I bought 1 tick above the HOD (85.05) and was filled @ 85.20. I was immediately confused and placed a sell stop above my entry price, out 6 seconds later @ 85.23. I realized quickly the volatility was bit much for this old lady and decided...

This is a day that rewards people with a short bias :D

I had the buy stop in much earlier, but removed it when I stepped away earlier. After inventories, I threw the stop in at the last second, so my fault for that, but the slippage was just rude.

I just got 15 ticks slippage on that breakout trade. Placed my stop @ 85.05, filled @ 85.20! Ended up with 3 f*cking ticks profit :mad:

CL was the ADD trader's dream off the open today. Totally erased yesterday from my memory :cool:

I see b/e trades. Over and over again. Picaso! WTF have you done to me? I had 18 b/e trades today. Get out of my head! :p

Thanks. I was so frustrated after 20 trades that I finally caved and settled for less than 20 ticks on the last one. If we pass the medical marijuana proposition today, I'll be in line for my Rx :p

It is indeed. I went to the Dark Side's house to play one day and was filled with dangerous thoughts. All it might take to push me over the 10/10 edge is a "double dog dare, ya" :D

API numbers, my guess.

I had 18 b/e trades today, 15 of which showed me 10-17 ticks profit. If I was a 10-tick scalper it would've been one of my best days based on the sheer number of trades I took. I think I'm on to something here... :p

Yes, I'm more of a momentum/breakout trader, so I like volatility with swift strong moves and very little retrace. I trade CL because I've spent over a year with it now (and traded it live for 7 months) and I know it really well. I'm as comfortable trading it as I am engaging in a conversation...