Lesson learned. If you're doing something that works, stick with it. Listen to yourself, not others.
16 pip gain, now 60 pip loss.
Now watching so see if this is simply a quick retrace or if it's now made a double bottom for the continued ride up. I believe the latter is more likely...
Sticking to the take profits may have just cost me a miraculous 16 pip gain on a terrible position. Lesson for the day very well could end up being: personal experience and intuition > advice from elitetrader. Sell offs - get 'em while they're hot, don't wait for more.
We'll see....
That one went somewhere over the moon last night. Now playing it as a swing on the daily chart. Intelligence would have dictated that I average up at the double top on the hourly, however it was there when I started the platform and before I could gather my thoughts the price had already...
Ended up breaking back down after a few pops up (one of which was what stopped me out).
Re-shorted on what appears to be another failure of the trend line on the hourly.
Trying something new with this one. I'm off of the 15 min trend line (worse position than previous), but a large hourly...
Decided to play around tonight, should have just taken the day off.
Short EUR/USD 1.45988
Covered EUR/USD 1.46053
-6.5 pips
Was due for a loser. Glad to get it out of the way.
LOL
-tea
-water bottle
-about 50 post-its with s/r values and numbers from the sluts at the bar
-pen for scribbling on post-its
-bills
And of course some good luck items:
-two seashells from my gf
-dove candy wrapper that says "failure is only the opportunity to begin again more...
There's a reason they're so popular, and that reason is that they have rock bottom prices, but outstanding service. I'm sure that has a lot, if not all, to do with the tiny profit margin.
Got distracted, no trades tonight.
Totalzzz:
Week 5 Day 1
+65.5 pips
20/5/1
Just over my 14 pips/week target.
Schoolin' all day tomorrow, no trades until Wednesday. Happy trading everyone.
^LOL!
Absolutely not. I've never met one that doesn't consider trading either gambling, stupid, or "no one can actually make a living like that."
No offense to NoDoji, one of the exceptions to the rule.
How many other women are there here?
Same trend line got bounced again while I was at work. Even larger move this time. Who says simple s/r doesn't work?
:p
EDIT: Hmm... apparently that wasn't one of the charts I posted. The pervious test and fail of the trend line is when I entered the short mentioned on the last...
Ah... so I basically just wait it out and buy them on the open market?
I can't speak from a fundamental standpoint, but as a fequent newegg customer they're an excellent business to deal with and I know many others that swear by them. This will definitely be a stock I'd like to own.
That IS my worry with having a loss. Not so much the actual monetary loss (which would be very small), but just the idea that my wins would be lost.
As for not letting trades go again me enough, If you read the first half or so of the journal, I actually let many trades go 2-3x my profit...