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For those who might be interested, here is my sim log for this morning too. At times I didn't know which side was up!

I found this morning somewhat difficult as well. Here is my ES so far...

Here is my ES as of 12:30. The 10:00 bar created a very wide forest channel, which threw me off at times.

Thanks 8833 for sharing. So far, volume gaussians have been the most difficult thing for me to get. I too study Spyder's excellent charts, but sometimes I don't know why they (volume gaussians) are drawn the way they are. When I'm annotating my charts in RT, I tend to look at the volume in a...

8833, Interesting you had problems in the morning but it was clearer in the afternoon. It was just the opposite for me. Your chart looks good, but I notice you don't annotate the volume gaussians. Do you have another way (of keeping this clear in your mind)?

Here is my ES for today. Until 12:30 today, I had no problems. But after 1:30 or so, I was over trading trying to figure out what was what (the afternoon was a wash). I did manage to finished the day with 7 pts. I was a little late getting into some positions because I submitted my order as...

Forgot the chart...:eek:

Here is my ES mid-day. So far, I've captured 7 pts sim trading. I'm still not entirely comfortable that I'm getting my gaussians completely right... (I need more practice!) :p

BB, Here is my ES and YM chart at 2:16. Please look at the notations to see my logic. My using the YM was really an experiment. I suppose, when I trade the FMOC days for real, I'll base my orders on the ES. I used a OCO order whereby my buy or sell order is executed at Market when the...

BB, If I can jump in here... I think what Spyder is saying is that you set your buy/sell orders far enough out of the channel so to avoid those "fake outs." In other words, the price movement has to be definitive. I suppose that one could argue that they may be getting in late (i.e. not the...

Spyder, this is very helpful. Is it your rule-of-thumb to set your entry points based on the width of the channel? For example, you said that the channel width was 2 points, so you set an order to go long when the ES was 2 points above (the current price) and and order to go short when...

I too sim traded the event, but this is what I did. It sort of worked... About 2:05 my YM channel ranged from ~ 12,365 to 12,380. So my reasoning was this: When the YM breaks out of the channel by a substantial amount, I then would execute a market order. So I set it up this way. I had an...

Spyder, Can you give us an idea of how you set-up your bracket (OCO) order this afternoon? For example, how soon before 14:15 did you place your order? Also where did you set your triggers for your initial buy/sell prices and were those based on the ES or the YM? I think it would be...

Thank you Spyder. Your teaching approach is highly appreciated. :cool:

Thanks Sypder. What I'm finding on my journey of learning this methodology is that the confidence building process is slow (for me anyhow) but positive. I have to wait until the context looks and feels right (i.e. there are few questions in my mind that what I'm about to do is the right...

Spyder, Here is my ES for today. I messed up on the gaussians in the morning, but I salvaged the rest of the day. I have a question about the beginning of the day. Under a strict points 1,2,3 scenario, by bar 4 the 3-point channel was established. This however seemed to be too soon to...

Ivo, I know what you mean by this. I was having this problem too earlier in the morning, but by keeping the forest view in mind helped look past these few ticks beyond the tapes. In fact, some of my taped channels are rather loose because of this.

My ES so far. Quite orderly this morning :p

Here is the corresponding R2R diagram included. Just when you think you know this stuff...:D

Thanks Pr0crast. I got a little tripped up :( Attached is the corrected graphic.