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it is my contention that van tharp modeled the wrong people as traders when he did his modelling. if one uses the wrong model (wrong = inefficient) then how can peak performance/excellence be acheived? it can't. the jist of what van talks about is using 50k-100k-1million account to make...

i think i know what you mean, but i don't know how to KEEP the fixed range centered around the current price. i manually adjust when price looks like it is going to be heading outside the current visibility. intraday, these are minor adjustments usually.

i use sierrachart as well stalker. I have the range set to 20 points for ES. (i guess that comes to 10 above and 10 below)... it only requires occasional adjustment and most of your lines are still on-screen. a ten point range is too small. also squintching up the price using the > <...

thanks for the chart easy. good trading too. i think those first 1-2 trades of the session are the toughest. finding the right side and all. as you proved with your trade log, there wasn't a need to take more than a point loss here. almost never is. $100-300/ct/day without drawdowns...

just watch the dom when price starts to stretch on the 5 min... i think you'll begin to see how price 'turns'. (i think i 'see' this on an unconscious competence level). that figure that moz posted is excellent. my quickie trades for today. i am specifically and purposely opening up...

just as an fyi, i have traded real money before...it makes no difference to me.

mainly price hitting 'my price' but the limit order not triggering. but really i just don't want to have to wonder if i ever truly would have gotten the price using the sim limits. i understand about instituting delays for fills to sim. actual limit orders. it's a preference i guess. i...

how is it not easy? why do i need to be in the queue? why do i need to use limit orders? have you tried simply entering when the B/A is at your price instead of using limit orders to enter? i do market sim orders precisely because i can not trust the simulation fills for limit...

people become 'addicted' to whatever behavior and action they continue to repeat. this solidifies certain beliefs. The inability to take on new temporary beliefs that conflict with core beliefs results in no change to actions taken. if your actions in the market continue to lose money...

just a couple quickies for today. it's all on the chart. leaving money on the table used to upset me. it doesn't anymore. That is not to say that i WANT to leave money out there. the issue is, i think, that i am confident now of my ability to pick the right side and flow with it. and...

here is the 2nd chart. after my first trade i had a strong urge to just quit in order to 'bank' the profit for the day but an old saying from high school that my band teacher used to say about competition... once is luck, twice is skill. that made me want to continue to trade. to prove...

ok these are my highly imperfect trades for today on the euro. all trades were done using market orders (i HOPE they are realistic fills. waited till the B or the A was at my price to hit the key) ---if anyone can comment on the realism of doing this it would be helpful. anyhow, pretty...

thanks icarus and nkhoi there is a good group here period.

actually i wasn't interested in the PnL. i was more interested in that, if there were audio files of grob narrating his trades or the action (whatever it was)...then i'd be interested in listening to such talk.

another way to phrase the consistency issue... (this is my belief) looking at your results, are you happy with them? if not, it is probably not due to consistency...we've already seen that humans are by nature, consistent. therefore it is a core belief issue...something might be...

surf, you'll notice that God has made the sun to shine on the righteous and unrighteous alike. he gives to whom he will the ability to do what we do. it is our choice in how we use an ability. to do good or to do evil. that's free will. there are of course, repurcusions to all our...

i could not have gotten through the dark days i've had without faith that God has me trading for a purpose. and i don't mean dark days as in losing days...but as in self doubt caused by repeated failures. some people derive strength from themselves or their adversity they say. maybe they...

these are my current core beliefs and acting upon these beliefs is yielding positive results. going back to what mak said about reinforcing positive actions...i still need to get further from the past failure reinforced brain functions (caused by having wrong beliefs). my beliefs now are...

Grob quote from sexy idea thread. posted 9/30/03 ", I am begining a PnL and I narrate the trades in sound and they are archived and there is a written log too. " did he ever upload this anywhere? if so, does anyone have a copy? could it be distributed amongst the group here or on the...

still working out the kinks... i'm only concentrating on shorting the top band or buying the lower band...because that's what i can SEE, for now. what i'm seeing for my entries is that there are two spots where washing outright doesn't appear to be possible....and so a small loss is...