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I hopped on the northbound train off the bottom of the triangle at .95. In SIM :)

NoD or anyone else, how do you feel about this triangle/pennant forming up? Somewhat approaching the apex..

ugggg, shorted that break below the channel twice around the 87.00 area...once for a small stop out and the other for a B/E...walk away from the computer for 10 mins and the thing tanks. I feel a bit like NoDoji :)

NoD, I see what you are talking about...I actually had the same lines drawn on my chart, but I saw them more as trendlines than a triangle. Kinda an ugly looking triangle :) Anyway, for me I was thinking that the upward break of the 86.25ish level was probably the place to get long to...

So an OK trading day for me...not much worked and there were 2 times were I was late to the party b/c I didn't plan my trades out properly or was thinking about the previous trade. Today just seemed like a lot of work. I feel pretty good about almost all my trades but a little dissappointed...

I switched over to the CL a couple months ago...sorry for the confusion.

So I wound up in pretty good positive territory today, however, Im REALLY not happy with the way I traded. I did something well and other things not so well. I didn't do anything horrendous, but days like today are when I really should clean up if I stick to my guns and trade well. Some of...

NoD, Thanks for the detailed analysis... a couple of comments. 1.) Maybe describing a "whole" day as chop/trend/whatever isn't the best way to describe it. I completely agree that i shouldn't just be calling it a day b/c price is chopping around a bit for 2-3 hours and that is where my...

To answer a few of your questions/comments: Chop days...I agree in the long run, chop days should be meaningless...but Im still struggling on "walking away" during those chops days. I recognized the chop day early (i usually do ok on seeing this)...but i want to sit in front of the computer...

Crappy day...not one winner just got caught in the chop and traded really crappy. Im going to end the week in the red which is a little annoying, however, I didn't trade very disiplined and didn't trade during full pit hours. I was late waking up every day this week. I've noticed...

I guess the answer is "It depends" I don't think so much time of day, but more action of the day...ie if we are in midday and there isn't much movement I try to only look for trades off s/r and hope for a possible break out, but dont count on it. However, some days there is tons of movement...

So here is how I thought of the trade: Entry: Wanted to see a solid break and close of the upward trendline from the LOD...89.56-.57 was a definite area of support wanted entry just below there. Happened to be 1 tick below the previous candle low on my chart (400 tick)...had a sell stop...

So a somewhat unexciting day for how much movement there was...I was late getting up again...I guess I should state that I've been sick for the past 2 months so sometimes getting up before 6am just isn't in the cards. So I missed the majority of the movement and my head just wasn't in it...

NoD, I remember you saying about something like you move your stop to B/E after 10 ticks when fading and 15 ticks when with the trend...did I get that right? Do you have hard rules for such things? I know this stuff has been talked about a bunch, Im just reanalyzing my b/e rules since...

Okay so Im back into the swing of things. I started SIMming again last week but wasn't full time and I wasn't taking it very serious so Im not even really bothering reanalyzing, going over stuff, etc...Yesterday was my first full day back taking everything serious and not messing around...

Ya I agree with Bob if you want to add another layer of security...one note, I would never plug my computer directly into the Modem/router that your ISP provides...those things are always total crap and are pretty easy to hack...and you are directly connected to the internet. somewhat...

If you know what you are doing and want more control I would recommend WIPFW...its windows version of IPTables as used in Linux... I would say its not for someone who wants a plug and play b/c this isn't it. Its free BTW. http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/faq.html

It sounds like you have a bit better security hooked up to your Mac also...Mac's are more secure in general than Windows machines. I wouldn't worry about your MAC, Im sure its fine, especially if you see the blocked attack attempts. Also, you are talking about a virus jumping across different...

Sorry no posts lately...been MIA since the middle of december. I've been moving and on vacation. My plan is to resume trading probably after the 1st or 2nd week in January. I know Im not quite at my goal of 50 ticks per day, but Im hoping 1 more month of SIM in positive territory and then...