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This is really good. But as you know, pretty much everything i do is buying on (relative) highs and selling on (relative) lows. Sort of ingrained in me over 14 years, hard to change.

Can you put stop loss orders in? What's the slippage like? :D

Yes, but the stops were built up there for good reason.

cheers :cool:

i'm looking to short jan cl overnight, that 12th nov low can be taken out, would be looking at $92

I ain't looking at 5 min charts on the Nikkei either! What other instruments are u a fan of?

stopped out 15245 -$780

stopped out 1790 -$1260

public scrutiny of what i'm up to might help me focus more.

long dec nikkei 15290

Good advice, but i intend to trade and post on here those trades till at least 31st dec :D

I don't have too much confidence in myself, not my methods. Hence this journal!

The point was really if you have a good method, but you aren't making money off it, it may simply be the markets that are being traded are no good for it. Trade markets and time periods that are better suited for the method rather than discard the method.

did a day trade dec cl : shorted 9303, out at 9295 and 9276 +$840 A good trade in accordance with my methods, but the exit was sloppy. For some reason i panicked when it was at 9295, and exited half. Hit my target in the end, so woulda made much more if i hadn't panicked. This is the...

Thanks for your post. Atm, I'm definitely looking for discipline in my trading rather than than a "better" method. I appreciate others may not be able to help much in this regard. Interesting you mention "more successful" systems /methods. I was at a small gathering of hedge fund managers and...

Because of my lack of confidence these days, i'm going to take the amount risked down further to around 0.15%-0.2%. So $1500-$2000 risk.

stopped out at 9410 (current price is 9400, oh well) -$1635

I ALWAYS use stops. Hesitant to post them. Is that a problem?

long march 14 coffee at 109.15

I'm gonna be posting all my trades on everything in this thread till the end of the year: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...threadid=279924 Feel free to FADE :D