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a very simple cognitive error here. No he wouldn't have increased his returns by 85% if he kept losses to $5k per day and here is why. We do not know how much risk he took on every single one of those up days. It is likely he would have breached the $5k per day risk limit by trading out of...

good spot to bank imo now that Daily gap has closed.

The speed of the drop gave me confidence to get in. Fast moves like that rarely hold. The was the added bonus of no news causing the drop making it more likely to fail. My 2c

Cheers it felt good. I am looking to hold hold hold 2500/2550/2600.

nailed that low. reduced risk, stop to break even. Will see where we are at the close.

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long S&P Sep Fut 2458.75. 5 point stop target 2500

and stopped. not feelin it.

yep, got knicked out twice before the rip, lovely.

long GBPUSD 1.3143 20 pip stop. target 1.32

i am waiting for a deeper retrace before the next buy opportunity in US indices. If it takes off without me then so be it, not chasing it.

yeah nasty spike on euro yesterday on fed.

stopped. horrible day.

It's good that there are plenty of other threads you can post on then! You can learn a lot from other people's calls, otherwise how do you know if they can trade or not.

yeah i like euro short today.

yeah been there. You have to address the root cause of it and found out why you are doing it. For me I found the reason was undercapitalisation and the majority of psych problems just don't occur if you have more capital. I saw guys with larger accounts be completely chilled leaving for the day...

Long S&P Sept Fut 2477. 5 point stop.

I could be wrong but anyone trading size is unlikely to show it in the tape. Say for example someone needs to shift 100,000 shares, they are likely to get it done via a fill algo, vwap, growler etc therefore attempting to hide their size in the tap. Then you have dark pools and other off...

Any stop?

I got stopped as I played it on the CFD. edit ps - shame as i would still be in if it wa the outright future. that's the price of playing in a tax free spreadbet, not recommended unless you are very confident you can overcome the spread.