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"Earlier entry didn't really affect the probabilities, yet, and once it moves in my favor, I pyramid quickly thereafter on the next retest/breakthrough to counterbalance in case I have/had few failed entries on being early." Could you expand on this a bit for me? [/B] Once I determine...

One big positive point today: Honest self-critique. Those 2 losses happen but with your honesty with yourself you are already ahead of most of the competition. And thank you again for posting. (I had similar experience today. Got stopped out on my short early in the day in TF, but worked...

+ 1 Awesome thread. Already better than most on ET. Best of luck indextrader7. I am also focused on ES and TF, though predominately ES. (some ETFs on the side for longer term hold).

Good luck bud. I like your stop, and your pick.

look into this www.lumosity.com It helps. Brain is like any other muscle, it improves/deteriorates with use/lack of. Age does negatively influence but neuroplasticity and experience do counterbalance.

Check this link out, Compare and contrast decision making differences between the sexes and how it influences their investing. http://www.lumosity.com/blog/stress/

Right there. I used to do that too, then I put a big sign: " I should have stopped. No set up." Then 16 more trades. That's deadly. everytime I break a rule ( a major rule), I take a day off, regardless if it was a win or a loss and hammer myself until I drive the point home. The next time...

1) Amazon.com and start reading. 2) get a brokerage account but DO NOT trade. Just watch and try to understand what you are looking at based on your readings and research. 3) Once you can come up with a resemblance of a plan that fits your personality, paper trade it for a year. In a...

Agree. I studied all of the CMT curriculum when I first started a couple of years ago, and now I am not using any indicator. Just price. (peaks/troughs/ S&R)

Great point Maverick. When I first started swing trading, I was focused on stocks, but then I moved to ETFs. True, the volatility is more tamed than with stocks, but you can match the potential profit target per trade by position sizing. I increased by position size per trade based on the...

I agree. Men might be more suited to trading because they are more prone to risks taking, yet I have seen many women outperform men in male dominated fields because of three factors: 1) They are better students because they have less "EGO". ( I don't mean they get better grades, but that...

So, From few posts, you move from attacking me, to attacking the military who protects us all because your feelings are hurt with me stating that we "men" take ourselves too seriously. And you hijacked this tread. Done wasting time with you. Best of luck to you.

The biggest "bum" in the savanna: Male lion The most feared predator in the savanna: Lioness The hardest working predator: Female Cheetah The person with the most kills in history: A female sniper We "men" take ourselves too seriously. Predatory instinct is a mindset and unisex...

Like everyone says, the market is a jungle/war zone. You can only hunt what's out there. Some guys start trading every day and chasing every thing they see. Forcing the issue. They end up slaughtered (just like in every battlefield/jungle), wasting finite resources (energy/capital) when...

I started out after I decided to leave the Army, and I wanted a more independent form of earning a living. So I bought every classic book on trading, and the whole CMT curriculum and I started paper trading for months and watching the market every day. And when I went live, I kept on paying...

As was posted earlier, S&R are zones. Prices are a balancing act between thousands of decisions made by thousands of market players having hundreds of different motives in several parts of the world. Yes, the incentive is the same, realize a profit, nonetheless the reasons for taking a position...

definitely, As a little guy I would hate to be pushed around by big money. So I would rather be in ES. The more liquid the market is the less likely it is for the price to be drastically effected by HFT. I read on another post this weekend, how a HFT trader pushed around prices in thin...

Hey guys, did anyone have an issue with their forex quotes this morning? Their USD/JPY and USD/CHF are down over 15%, while the AUD/USD and USD/CAD are up around 5%. I don't trade forex but I use them to check the state of the markets. They are getting really unreliable. And I also got the...

I can't comment directly on your issues, but it seems like the platform slowed down quite a bit since the new year. the sizzle index scan used to take a couple of seconds, even during market hours. Now it takes me more than a minute or two, and over 20 seconds after the market close. (using the...

thanks riskaddict. I have used yahoo finance. I actually paper traded with it on my last deploymeny before my jump to fidelity. I was just wondering about the TOS fund data. have a good day.