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Shorted ES at 993.25.. at 9:36.. Out at 991.50 at 9:40

Nibabashi, "P.S. Being profitable during a trading day that lacked discipline will cause more harm than good than having a losing trading day while achieving discipline. " Excellent point.. I never thought of it this way.. and I can't tell you how many times this has come back to haunt...

Well.. its obvious.. You guys don't have a life..

Fast.. No.. what do you mean.. can you give me an example?? Is it effective??

Favorite trade is to wait for a pullback to the EMA.. when stochastics are oversold wait for reversal candle to form.. to enter thats about it..

I will say this about Scientist.. I believe he is definitely the winner of the longest posts on average.. There's some good stuff in his posts though.. not complaining.. thanks for the help Scientist

I much rather keep my trading simple.. I use a 20 period EMA and stochastics .. thats it..

Wish I knew what the hell I was looking at.. How can you decipher a trade out of all those lines??

I think it was the 2nd bar forming a bottom tail.. I got nervous and exited prematurely.. Trading on emotions.. something I need to work on.. That and the fact that I've lost a ton of money in the last 3 days.. getting gun shy...

I will join the others here and try to post a daily journal with a bit map of my trades hopefully.. If it allows me to post them. Reason for doing this is I've been having a problem with discipline lately and hopefully knowing I have to post my trades here for others to see will help me be...

Noticing the action on the Emini today.. not many good trades.. This consolidation period hasn't been offering much.. at least not to my liking anyway.. Hope it breaks out soon...

I always place a stop loss right after I am filled.. with this trade.. as I was clicking the sell button the market starting taking off.. Like I said.. I put in a limit order to sell at 75..and got filled at 84.. because the market took off.. and within 30 seconds I was down the 30 points...

Not to sound condescending (spelling?).. I do accept losses.. but if my system were to give back 80% of profits I would be looking for a different system.. my problems were psychological.. too much risk and taking trades outside of my plan...

Yep.. Did it again.. Doing great since the 1st of July only to give back 80% of the profits in the last 3 days.. 80%.. wow can't believe it.. How dumb can I be.. promised myself I would never do this again.. Psychological errors.. too wrapped up in the moment.. taking trades that are not...

GapTrader, I'd swear you are writing about me here.. I know a lot of us go through this.. And you're right.. the best thing to do when starting out a losing day or week is to remind yourself of all the opportunities that will present themself in the coming week or two.. you don't have to...

I did not know you can do this.. Is this available even when trading electronically?

Hi dp... thanks for all your posts and help.. My weaknesses.. Geeting too emotionally involved.. today was great example.. my trade from earlier.. my emotions took me out trying to second guess my system and I missed a great profit opportunity. and later in day trying to get back...

I did it again.. I've had 4 days since I've started trading electronically that I just totally lose control and blow up.. today was one of those days. I stated in my previous post that I was in a profitable trade and got out prematurely.. By lunch time I made two questionable trades...

Original stop was at 1004.75