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K, we understand totally, no explanation necessary. It's hard to hang onto profits when this oily contract is so damned slippery!! EDIT: Wait minute, I just looked at your blotter. As ET's resident mom, I must say, you're not getting enough sleep!

Shagi, these statements raise some red flags. I'm assuming your account is a rather small account and so you aren't constrained by any kind of liquidity issues and specific hedging strategies that an institutional trader or fund manager would deal with on a regular basis managing large sums of...

+$807 Took .80 out of a 1.64 RTH range, which seems decent BUT I only traded from 07:40am - 11:15am ET, so I should've had far more than that (I can hear Arjun saying, "Yeah, and the problem is...??"). I took lunch during the narrow range and missed a great break out. Typical. :eek:

About 20 mins ago I neglected to say I was grabbing some lunch, NLHD signal.

Uh oh, something my husband should know?? :confused: :confused: :confused:

Ooooh, I've never seen a "K" blotter! I've been 20-ticking my way to financial freedom today :D

What can you say, Picaso, the guy's got balls!

Second mouse gets the cheese :)

If you look at the volume, you'll realize that day traders have little effect on this stock consistently making new highs. These runs up are on high volume. Other than the earnings gap down day, the volume on up days far outweighs the volume on down days. This is big money moving price, not day...

Oh come now, anyone trades crude oil surely cannot be embarrassed easily. If it makes you feel any better, I made $10.76 trading CL today, two early pre-market trades targeting breakouts, both back to b/e on failures, then I didn't trade it the rest of this beautiful...

If I'm not mistaken, isn't the spread on NFLX usually around .50? I think you need a 1.00 stop on that "thing" :D

Thanks, Picaso, but I'd already tried setting it there in the past and it doesn't affect the Alt-click auto bracket default of 1 point. I'll try messaging IB about it again (for the 3rd time).

While we're on the subject of OCO bracket orders with IB, anyone who knows how to adjust the default offset from the limit order price when using Alt-left click method of order entry on the DOM, please PM me. The default is currently 1 point, which applies to all futures whether ES or CL, and 1...

CAUTION: Trading Plans Subject To Change :p Here's my Rule of "Disaster Stop" Trade Entry. Say you want to go long, and well maybe you're early entering here, but what the heck you'll just use a reeeeaally wide stop on the trade. STOP! DO NOT put on the trade! Instead, place a...

I'm a little confused on the timing of all this, but my question is, you were targeting the LOD which I show at the time was 77.90, is that correct? Did you not hold till target because you were adding to the position and the stop loss would've then been too steep?

+$250 Actually did very little live trading today. A couple pre-market breakout plays that failed; an AMZN potential swing trade that failed to do what I wanted on 2 trades. Studied a new time frame cross-reference in crude and did some sim testing off that. CL threw great signals today, but...

That LOD is an expected support area based on my 1-hour weekly chart. I'm waiting for inventories now before trading. Had a couple early pre market trades, both b/e, though one came a couple ticks from target.

Try to find a good mentor before you develop bad habits. That alone will save you from unnecessary losses and frustration. Learn to trade price action and go with the trend or a confirmed trend reversal. Price action means letting price itself (not anything else) invite you into a trade. When...

From a technical standpoint, price found support at the 20-day MA as it should when pulling back in an uptrend. I believe the standard swing trade entry setup is to go long when a pullback to the rising 20-day MA finds support, and a more confirmed entry is to go long when price breaks through...

From the time stamp of your post, it appears I bought the same time you shorted, kinda crazy considering my short bias :p