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Thanks... I'm trying to post my reasoning behind each trade as well as the numbers.

Thanks very much for your comments -- trading discipline has always been my weak point, but I seem to be doing better with discipline lately. The ES are the S&P 500 emini futures, and are electronically traded. It basically tracks the S&P 500 Index throughout the day. Although my trading...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Made a handful of trades before 11am, when I called it quits. Some good trades, but a couple of unusual errors caused me to end trading early. One was a fill at market that should have been a limit fill, all I did was change the OSO order quantity from 2 to 1. I review...

Monday, March 31, 2008 I did not do any trading today, so no results to post.

Friday, March 28, 2008 Almost didn't trade at all today as too busy with other things, but saw an opportunity for a short when I open up TradeStation to check on the market (screenshot attached): 1046 Short 2 ES 1330.75 at 510T resistance. Initially I set a profit target at 1328.75, which...

Thursday, March 27, 2008 Another good trading day today. I made a total of 5 trades, with the final trade being for 2 contracts. Up until this point, all my trades have been on 1 contract. 2 contracts will allow me to take some profits off the table after a few points have been earned. I'm...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Took four trades this morning and will probably call it a day, I have stuff to do this afternoon. 0941 Long ES 1345.75 at green bias line on PBF Squeeze indicator, then a pull back. This is a bad counter-trend trade, though the 510T 18MA downslope wasn't as...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Man, what a day.... and not in a good way. It started off bad and got progressively worse as I traded during times I shouldn't (poor market action and low volume) trying to make up losses. At one point I was down -11.5 ES points, though at the end of the day I was able...

Monday, March 24, 2008 Only two trades this morning, and most likely will be done for the day. The ES at 09:30 were about +9 points above the 5 minute 18MA, so I was looking for a pullback and a short opportunity early on. I took one short trade on a cross of the 510T 18MA, without waiting...

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Another tough day... 6 trades today all but one losers - but the winner was enough to be up 1.75 for the day. 0927 Long ES 1339 @ 510T 18MA support. Stopped out at 1338. I don't normally trade before 9:30am but I thought I saw a good entry and was hoping for a pop...

Thanks, and I'll try to attach more charts of any interesting trades.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Rough trading day today for me. Decent entries, but kept getting stopped out. Ended up down 4 pts total on the ES. 0931 Short 1301.75 Red PBF Bias line, stopped out at 1300.75. -1 0941 Short 1302.50 at 510T resistance, MA curling over. Stop hit @ 1303. - 0.5...

Monday, March 17, 2008 At 0930 the ES were about 25 points below the 5 min 18MA of 1286, so I was waiting for a long entry trigger on the 510 tick chart, which came at 0932. 0932 Long ES 1262.75 at push above, then a pullback to 510T 18MA support. My stop was -1 point (1261.75), which was...

Friday, March 14, 2008 On old world maps when the cartographers had to depict unknown areas they would sometimes write "Here Be Dragons". That's how I feel right now, I can't trade this mess -- way too fast for me. For those of you able to trade these crazy days, I envy you. A...

Just realized that today is rollover day for the ES. My charts are out of kilter with regard to the MA's and I was probably only going to trade the morning anyway due to afternoon business appointments. So I get a day off :) One other thing regarding my revised trading system mentioned in...

I'm going to try something a bit different with the next trading session, to try to go more with the major trend and avoid over-trading. Long trades - When ES price is well below (>6 points below) the 5 minute chart's 18MA resistance. - or - - When ES price is at 5 minute chart 18MA...

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Had to stop trading around 11am due to other commitments. So a light trading day today. Missed a move or two early on, but that's okay as was up 3.25 points for the day. 0940 Long ES 1324.50 @ 510T 18MA support. Stop hit 1323.75 as it broke support almost...

Agreed... I removed my short trades after 1pm and did the math, I would have been up for the day.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Man, what a day. I over-traded, should have stayed out during the choppy periods but I didn't. I took a 2 hr break around lunch and missed one or two moves. At one time I was down about 6 points on the ES, but managed to recover back to -0.75 at end of day. Had I...

I've seen what you describe though I don't have any charts handy to upload. If the price approaches the MA, I have a limit order already in to buy/sell at 1 tick above/below the MA. If previous pullbacks to MA dipped below (or went above) a little bit I may set my entry price right at the MA...